DALLAS—-Allegro, the leading provider of energy trading and risk management solutions, has announced the release of FERC Connect 8.1, a pioneering advancement within the Allegro 8 platform that provides an automated process for extracting, compiling and reporting FERC-mandated information for the natural gas and power markets.

—-Safeway Inc.: WHAT: As summertime fruits and vegetables head to market, Northern California-based Safeway Inc., Undersecretary of California Food and Agriculture Will Brown and representatives from some of the most respected farms in the region will distribute samples of locally grown produce to urge consumers to buy local produce and support the local and state economy.

NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings has assigned an ‘A+’ rating to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation $150 million revenue bonds – historic structures tax credit financing program series 2009A .

Proposals that would help disabled seniors and healthy young adults are among dozens of provisions tucked into sweeping health care legislation that senators will begin considering next week.

The head of the Federal Reserve Bank branch in Richmond, Va., says signs point to the U.S. economy hitting bottom later this year and then expanding.

The House on Tuesday waded deeper into the rescue of the troubled auto industry when it passed a $4 billion plan to subsidize new cars sales for consumers who scrap old ones.