Banking & Finance

WBJ is conducting its annual Economic Forecast survey, gauging readers' opinions about what 2023 will bring. Those who fill out the survey by Dec. 19 will be eligible to win one of three $50 gift cards.

Massachusetts will steer nearly $169 million in U.S. Treasury funding toward loans and seed money for small businesses and entrepreneurs, the Baker administration announced Tuesday.

Massachusetts employers in November reported the highest degree of confidence in their economic outlook since September 2021, according to the latest monthly report from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

Officials at the state pension fund expect economic cycles and market downturns will periodically affect their investments and the quarter that ended in September "was one of those periods, unfortunately," the head of MassPRIM said as the agency also confirmed that it has connections to the failed cryptocurrency firm FTX.

The medical technology division of General Electric known as GE Healthcare, which has a facility in Marlborough, will be spun off into its own separate company on Jan. 4.

Central Mass Auctions Inc. in Worcester is selling 700 lots from the Rotman collection of Worcester, Central Massachusetts and New England memorabilia.

MassDevelopment made 18 grants totalling more than $1.5 million to businesses, cities, towns, and nonprofit organizations in Central Mass.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $4.7 million to Worceste healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health for costs of testing, new equipment, and new staff due to COVID-19.

Northeastern University is using revenue from a $378.5 million tax-exempt bond to build a 340,000 square foot science and engineering complex in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.

Massachusetts Lottery sales have improved in the past two months thanks in large part to interest in a huge Powerball jackpot, but officials remain worried a broader slowdown that left the agency tens of millions of dollars behind last year's pace will persist.