by - April 20, 2018 6:08 pm
Walmart Inc. exceeded the $500 billion revenue threshold for the first time in the company’s 53-year history. So it’s no surprise the company’s top five executives, who benefit from performance-based…
by - April 20, 2018 3:14 pm
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For The First National Bank of Fort Smith, those are reliable words to live by. The Fort Smith market leader’s…
by - April 19, 2018 11:40 am
Home Bancshares Inc. closed out the first three months of 2018 with record first quarter earnings, largely boosted by strong loan growth from the bank’s commercial real estate lending arm…
by - April 19, 2018 11:11 am
Tupelo, Miss.-based BancorpSouth Bank announced after the close of market on Wednesday (April 18) it is expanding deeper into Texas with the purchase of Houston-based Icon Bank in a stock-and-cash…
by - April 16, 2018 7:20 pm
The first independent analysis of the proposed five-year labor contract between Fort Smith-based ABF Freight and the Teamsters suggests the union negotiators won the day. An April 13 investor note…
by - April 16, 2018 1:58 pm
Bank deposits have experienced double-digit growth during the past seven years in Northeast Arkansas. As of mid-2017, there were $2.972 billion in bank deposits in the Jonesboro metro, an 18%…
by - April 13, 2018 11:19 am
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 2.4% in March, from the same month in 2017, and was the largest year-over-year rise since March 2017, according to the…
by - April 12, 2018 1:28 pm
It was another record quarter for Little Rock-based Bank of the Ozarks. The company on Thursday (April 12) posted first-quarter net income of $113.1 million, up 27% compared to the…
by - April 10, 2018 9:20 am
The average homebuyer in Northwest Arkansas put down 5.5% on a home purchased in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to a recent report by California-based Attom Data Solutions. That’s…
by - April 9, 2018 7:02 pm
Facebook Inc. on Monday (April 9) reached a $35 million pact with the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (ATRS) and other class-action plaintiffs concerning allegations that the social media giant propped…
by - April 9, 2018 11:48 am
Little Rock-based financial services firm Stephens Inc. has partnered with the nonprofit Economics Arkansas to create an educational program for PreK-12 students across the state, beginning in the 2018-19 school…
by - April 8, 2018 5:34 pm
Blockchain is seen as another disruptive technology – along with machine learning, internet of things and virtual reality – that has the potential to impact nearly all business sectors. There…
by - April 6, 2018 9:18 am
Forrest City-based Armor Bank and its holding company, Big Creek Bancshares Inc., announced Friday (April 6) the appointment of Chad May as CEO. May will be based in Little Rock,…
by - April 5, 2018 2:01 pm
A Little Rock technology startup with ties to the former Systematics Inc. and Alltel Corp. announced plans Thursday (April 5) to create 19 high-paying fintech jobs as the company scales…
by - April 4, 2018 5:46 pm
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Wednesday (April 4) offered a cautious assessment of the nation’s economy, saying the U.S. is in a “slow growth era” with downside risk…
by - April 3, 2018 4:52 pm
Fayetteville-based Arvest Bank’s $391 million acquisition of Bear State Financial Inc. of Little Rock has cleared the last major regulatory hurdle after the Federal Reserve approved the Aug. 22 deal…
by - March 30, 2018 12:26 pm
The Federal Reserve will study fraud and its financial impact on the U.S. payments system and determine its causes and factors contributing to it. The federal agency announced the study…
by - March 28, 2018 5:22 pm
Shareholders making proposals for change at the Walmart Inc. annual meeting will now do it in a smaller setting two days before the retailer’s shareholder celebration Friday, June 1, at…
by - March 27, 2018 9:29 pm
Sales tax and use collections in Craighead County and Jonesboro were down in March as compared to 2017. But, collections in the county and city were still the second highest…
by - March 26, 2018 3:08 pm
A loophole in the recently passed tax bill that would have incentivised farmers to sell agriculture products to cooperatives instead of other types of businesses has been amended. The “section…
