by - November 8, 2018 4:34 pm
Thanksgiving has not yet arrived, but the holiday shopping is here, and retailers are wasting no time trying to woo consumers to their stores and websites with seven weeks until…
by - November 8, 2018 12:13 pm
Murphy Oil Corp. posted profits of nearly $94 million as the El Dorado oil explorer saw international crude prices jump to nearly $70 a barrel in the third quarter, the…
by - November 8, 2018 11:57 am
Shares of Windstream Holdings Inc. jumped nearly 10% in early trading Thursday (Nov. 8) after the Little Rock broadband provider’s third quarter earnings came in ahead of Wall Street expectations…
by - November 8, 2018 10:48 am
It was a nice break last weekend to just do some yard work, watch some excellent football games, attend our daughter’s dance competition, and catch up with friends. The season…
by - November 8, 2018 10:24 am
The newest vendor to locate to Bentonville is New York-based Genpact, a global professional services firm, who is taking up residence inside Walmart’s corporate campus by the end of November. Walmart…
by - November 7, 2018 9:10 pm
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday (Nov. 7) “a smile came to my face” when asked about the previous day’s elections. However, he is not as happy that the passage of…
by - November 7, 2018 7:25 pm
Democratic Party of Arkansas Chairman Rep. Michael John Gray, D-Augusta, lost his bid for another term in the Arkansas State House on Tuesday night, despite reports of a possible tabulation…
by - November 7, 2018 5:44 pm
Little Rock-based BSR Real Estate Investment Trust on Wednesday (Nov. 7) posted third quarter profits of $13.5 million as the publicly-traded apartment owner and operator continued to expand in the…
by - November 7, 2018 2:00 pm
With almost all of Election Night 2018 in the books, it’s time to comb through the results and spotlight interesting observations about election trends. 1) STATEWIDE Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson…
by - November 7, 2018 12:37 am
The hotly contested race for mayor of Little Rock headed to a runoff Dec. 4 between banker and former Highway Commissioner Frank Scott, Jr. and businessman, attorney and former Little…
by - November 6, 2018 11:37 pm
Republican incumbents swept all four of Arkansas’ congressional races, but will be headed back to the U.S. House in January in the minority and facing concerns from some American voters…
by - November 6, 2018 11:23 pm
Arkansans strongly backed all three of the constitutional amendments that made this year’s ballot, which were measures requiring voters to show ID at the polls, raise the state minimum wage…
by - November 6, 2018 8:19 pm
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson was re-elected to a second term Tuesday. The Associated Press called the governor’s race shortly after the polls closed at 7:30 p.m. Hutchinson was leading his Democratic…
by - November 6, 2018 1:15 pm
Talk Business & Politics will offer complete and wide-ranging coverage of election returns on Tuesday (Nov. 6). Roby Brock will co-anchor coverage beginning at 7 p.m. on TalkBusiness.net, KATV.com, and…
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 5, 2018 10:21 am
Fayetteville-based logistics provider CaseStack, founded by CEO Dan Sanker in 1999 (in Santa Monica, Calif.,) is being acquired by the Hub Group (NASDAQ: HUBG), a large, publicly traded transportation logistics…
by - November 4, 2018 9:04 pm
If the casino ballot initiative passes in Arkansas on Tuesday (Nov. 6), Delaware North, the parent company of Southland Gaming and Racing, will attempt to build a hotel and convention…
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 1:30 pm
Since opening in 2014, the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion (AMP) has been a primary amenity driving Northwest Arkansas’s growing arts and entertainment economy. In the past five years the Walton…
