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New Hampshire's unemployment rate dropped by four-tenths of a percent in October, led by an increase in state and local government employment. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October stood at 6.8 percent, 0.4 percent lower than the 7.2 percent…

The bad news is that homes in October are selling for less they were at the same time last year in New Hampshire. The good news is more of them are selling, and the time it takes to sell them…

Rochester, N.H.-based BrandPartners Group Inc. has filed suit against two former executives, charging they stole proprietary information to start their own business and to land a job with a competitor. In separate filings, the company said that Frank Beardsworth of…

A new report shows metropolitan areas in New Hampshire have grown relatively stronger in their ability to withstand the worst of the recession. The 2009 Milken Institute/Greenstreet Real Estate Partners Best-Performing Cities Index ranks the Manchester-Nashua metro area 76th and…

In contrast to recent years, the current cap on H-1B visas - temporary U.S visas for those in specialty occupations, such as computer programmers — has yet to reach its limit. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, there…

The number of bankruptcies in New Hampshire continues on a record pace, with 466 individuals and businesses declaring bankruptcy in October -- 23 more than in September. Fourteen of the filings were by businesses. The total number of bankruptcy filings…

Presstek Inc.'s revenues fell by a third in the last quarter, resulting in a net loss of $5.4 million, despite extensive cost-cutting measures, the company reported Monday. The Hudson, N.H.-based provider of printing equipment had earned $200,000 during the same…

Coherent Inc., the California-based company that last month bought the North American assets of struggling Salem, N.H.-based StockerYale Inc., plans to keep the Salem plant open, the company's chief executive said in an earnings call last week. “We intend to…

While a growing number of signs point to New Hampshire's economy beginning to emerge from the deepest national recession since the Depression, it will take several years for employment figures to reach less painful and more acceptable levels. That prognosis…

The number of new hires reported by New Hampshire employers through the first 10 months of 2009 is about 25 percent lower than last year's figures over the same period. Through October, the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security said…