by - November 5, 2018 7:23 pm
Arkansas investment banker Warren Stephens and Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone praised the virtues of capitalism in a fireside chat-style presentation at the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting…
by - November 5, 2018 1:45 pm
Thinly traded Inuvo Inc. of Little Rock entered a stock-and-cash deal to be acquired by privately held Conversion Technologies Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif., in a deal valued at $75.5…
by - November 2, 2018 4:33 pm
The U.S. economy added another 250,000 nonfarm jobs in October as the U.S. labor pool hit a record high of 156.562 million workers, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor…
by - November 2, 2018 1:28 pm
Arkansas revenue collections in October continued a steady upward path in October as rising payrolls and strong sales tax collections boosted state budget coffers ahead of the all-important holiday shopping…
by - November 1, 2018 7:21 am
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) trustees on Wednesday (Oct. 31) hired veteran staffer Clint Rhoden as its new executive director, replacing longtime ATRS chief George Hopkins who will retire at…
by - October 31, 2018 7:25 pm
Higher fuel costs and rising pump prices cut into third quarter profits for Murphy USA, Inc. Wednesday (Oct. 31) as the Arkansas convenience store operator seeks to improve margins across…
by - October 31, 2018 12:01 pm
The parent company of Entergy Arkansas on Wednesday (Oct. 31) upped the company’s yearly earnings forecast as the utility giant’s profits in the third quarter jumped nearly 35% from a…
by - October 25, 2018 1:51 pm
The number of Americans without a savings or checking account fell for the third consecutive year in 2017, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s biennial national survey of so-called…
by - October 23, 2018 7:45 pm
Caterpillar Inc., which announced a multimillion-dollar expansion this summer at its North Little Rock tractor factory, issued a warning this week that U.S. trade tariffs are hurting the company’s bottom…
by - October 23, 2018 5:08 pm
Hanging chads will mostly be a thing of the past when most Arkansans enter the voting booth and find touchscreens and innovative software mostly associated with smartphones, tablets, self-driving cars…
by - October 22, 2018 7:51 pm
Simmons First National Corp. kept its streak of record quarterly profits in 2018 by nearly doubling its earnings from a year ago as the Pine Bluff-based banking group rests from…
by - October 21, 2018 8:32 am
As the Robert Mueller special investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election nears 525 days, the pale of further interference in the Nov. 6 midterms still hangs over the…
by - October 19, 2018 1:23 pm
Arkansas’ unemployment rate fell to an all-time low in September, eclipsing the previous record touched in August and the summer of 2017 when the state’s labor pool climbed to more…
by - October 18, 2018 6:27 pm
Third quarter results for the Arkansas bank formerly known as Bank of the Ozarks fell well short of Wall Street expectations as the regional banking group incurred charge-offs at commercial…
by - October 18, 2018 10:31 am
Home Bancshares Inc. posted a record quarterly profit of $80.3 million as the Conway-based regional banking group continued to benefit from loan growth across the company’s expanding Southeast U.S. footprint….
by - October 17, 2018 6:52 am
The state Medical Marijuana Commission agreed after long debate on Tuesday (Oct. 16) to schedule a public meeting at the end of this month so those concerned about Arkansas’ delayed…
by - October 16, 2018 12:59 pm
As state legislators begin budget hearings ahead of the 2019 regular session, the Arkansas Good Roads Foundation released a study Tuesday (Oct. 16) highlighting the need for increased highway funding…
by - October 15, 2018 1:00 pm
Murphy Oil Corp. has formed a joint venture with Brazil’s multi-national oil conglomerate to develop a deepwater Gulf of Mexico project that is expected to bolster the Arkansas oil company’s…
by - October 12, 2018 5:28 pm
A long week of televised debates ended Friday (Oct. 12) with three gubernatorial candidates mostly sparring over the policies of Republican incumbent Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is running for a…
by - October 10, 2018 8:12 pm
The Little Rock Technology Park on Wednesday (Oct. 10) unanimously approved a 5.7% raise for Executive Director Brent Birch, along with an opportunity to pocket an extra $5,000 annual bonus…
