NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings has assigned its ‘AAA’ rating to Monmouth County Improvement Authority , NJ’s $15.146 million governmental pooled loan revenue bonds, series 2009.

NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings has assigned its ‘AAA’ rating to Monmouth County, New Jersey’s refunding obligation bonds, series 2009, consisting of:

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert’s proposed $11.3 billion budget doesn’t include any tax increases, but he isn’t promising to veto a budget that includes them.

A nine-month rally in oil prices could be faltering as a gradual sell-off that began in late October gains momentum. Crude prices, which doubled from March to October, declined Friday for the eighth day in a row.

The nominee who would run Rhode Island’s economic development agency in a state with nearly 13 percent unemployment said Friday she wants to connect the unemployed with jobs but needs at least three months to assemble a plan for reviving the struggling economy.

SAN LEANDRO, Calif.—-OSIsoft , providers of the PI System®, the industry-standard enterprise infrastructure for management of time-series data and events, today received a federal Export Achievement Certificate for its success in exporting clean technology to Russia.

The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Friday as a stronger-than-expected retail sales for November reinforced investors’ confidence in a steady recovery of the economy.

The Canadian government said Friday that it has approved a request from Egyptian-backed telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to launch its mobile phone service in Canada.

U.S. consumers stepped up their spending in November and grew more optimistic this month, unexpectedly strong data showed on Friday, raising hopes a self-sustaining economic recovery was starting to unfold.

The nation’s mine safety czar said Friday that the U.S. must put a stop to black lung disease, a work-related illness that has killed roughly 10,000 coal miners this decade.