The long-delayed M&T Bank Corp. acquisition of New Jersey-based Hudson City Bancorp Inc. has been delayed again — but it's still happening.

“Germany sells Five-year Debt at Negative Yield for First Time on Record,” screams the article in the Wall Street Journal. “Move reflects plummeting borrowing costs across Europe,” the subtitle states.

Business featured this week: Integrity Bank

Two popular midstate banks are the first to report first-quarter earnings this week.

A new municipal pension reform bill targeting public safety may soon surface in the state Senate.

Cash sales accounted for 39.1 percent of Pennsylvania home sales in January, which was down from 39.8 percent in January 2014, according to California-based CoreLogic Inc.

Two CPBJ reporters will host Twitter chats this week.

Businesses featured this week: Centric Bank, Northwest Savings Bank, Patriot Federal Credit Union

Lower Paxton Township-based Centric Financial Corp., the holding company for Centric Bank, has received the ticker symbol it applied for in the winter to start publicly trading its shares.

Harsco Corp. recently amended its five-year credit agreement from 2012 that gives the company financial flexibility and, after completing refinancing of October 2015 senior notes, will extend the termination date to June 2019.

Metro Bank will be closing two of its 34 branches this summer, but bank officials said it has nothing to do with a handful of activist investors who claimed in 2014 that the bank has too many branches.

Of its board members and executives, new S&T Bancorp Inc. director James T. Gibson is by far its largest shareholder, according to the bank's proxy report released Wednesday.

Home prices in Central Pennsylvania increased in February compared with the same month a year ago, according to California-based data firm CoreLogic Inc.

Codorus Valley Bancorp Inc. announced that its chief operating officer has left the company.