Latest Links: House And Senate In Battle Of Wills, Low Stock Prices Force Presstek To Move To Smaller Stock Exchange

New Hampshire’s Business And Economic News In Brief

House holds Senate bills as a ‘price’ – ”Hours after the Senate put the kibosh on several House bills yesterday dealing with abortion and refugees, the House responded by resituating both issues as amendments to distinctly unrelated legislation. The 24-hour waiting period for abortions is now in a tax credit bill. Ditto for the refugee moratorium that Manchester officials want. And the House did the same with two right-to-work bills killed in the Senate, putting one of them in a snowplowing bill co-sponsored by the Senate president.” Concord Monitor

MIT Professor: Natural Gas Prices Not Likely To Make Hydro-Quebec Reconsider Northern Pass – ”The extremely low prices for natural gas – which can be used to generate electricity – have some  opponents  of Northern Pass wondering whether Hydro-Quebec  might reconsider the project. But a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that’s unlikely.” NHPR

Presstek shifts listing to smaller Nasdaq exchange – ”Barely a week after announcing plans to seek shareholder approval for a reverse stock split in order to boost its share price and prevent being delisted from the larger Nasdaq Global Market exchange, Presstek Inc. moved its stock listing to the Nasdaq Capital Market.” New Hampshire Business Review

2010 personal income grew in all N.H. counties – “Personal income grew in every New Hampshire county in 2010, with the largest gain in Grafton County and the smallest in Coos County. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, which released the figures Wednesday, defines personal income as income derived by all people from all sources.” New Hampshire Business Review