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Just how friendly is New Hampshire to small businesses? Pretty friendly, according to yet another report that ranks the state's small business climate.New Hampshire is the nation's eighth-friendliest state for doing business and the fifth-friendliest state in which to start…

Two surveys released this week both give New Hampshire relatively high marks when it comes to its licensing requirements and costs.The Institute for Justice, which describes itself as the nation's "only libertarian public interest law firm" surveyed all states' laws…

Monadnock Community Bank of Peterborough is on its way to being acquired by a Massachusetts credit union -- the first publicly traded bank to do so.Shareholders of Monadnock Bancorp Inc. overwhelmingly approved the $6.4 million sale of the bank to…

While the total value of contracts signed in April for future construction in New Hampshire presented a mixed picture, there was a significant bright spot - contracts for highways, bridges and other infrastructure.All told, according to data supplied by McGraw-Hill…

GT Advanced Technologies' revenue and profits keep on growing, albeit at a slower rate, but there are concerns about the future if economic troubles in the alternative energy field and increasing trade tensions with China continue, according to the firm's…

Home sales in New Hampshire continued to increase in April, further evidence that the state's residential real estate market may indeed be rebounding.But the median price of those transactions remains on a downward slide, according to data released by the…

An increase in duty-free allowances for Canadian visitors to the United States could help boost cross-border shopping in New Hampshire and other border states this summer to levels not seen in two decades, according to a top Canadian economist."Canadians will…

The Business and Industry Association's annual policy development process begins June 14, kicking off a series of 10 roundtable discussions with business and opinion leaders around the state.The roundtables are an open forum for business leaders to talk about their…

A multi-state lawsuit against Home Depot for allegedly not paying its workers overtime has been split up, meaning the two New Hampshire plaintiffs will have to stand on their own against the Atlanta-based corporation.The original suit, filed in Connecticut June…