US Average Mortgage Rates Edge Up; 30-Year at 4.86 Percent
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged slightly higher this week amid continued anxiety in financial markets as interest rates rise.
View ArticleGas Pos Relocates to NLR, Will Create 30 Jobs
Gas Pos announced Thursday that it has relocated its headquarters to North Little Rock from Birmingham, Alabama, and will create 30 high-paying technology jobs.
View ArticleA Practical Way to Build Culture (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)
Organizational culture is often fuzzy. It is too easy to create a lofty, aspirational set of principles that read well but lose their power when it comes to practical day-to-day operations. That...
View ArticleArkansas Personal Consumption Spending Up 2.5 Percent
Personal consumption expenditures in the United States rose 4.3 percent in 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
View ArticleHillview Village Visited by $3M Transaction (Real Deals)
Hillview Village of North Little Rock LLC, led by Dusty Duke and Darrell Robinson, bought its namesake project at 2540 W. Pershing Blvd. from Hillview Village Ltd. of Frisco, Texas.
View ArticleNaming the Baby (Gwen Moritz Editor's Note)
Finding the perfect name, one that makes just the right impression for a small bank intending to be larger, may be harder to come by than naming your own kid.
View ArticleOzark Natural Foods Purchases New Space (NWA Real Deals)
Ozark Natural Foods paid $3.6 million for a vacant grocery store at College Avenue and East Lafayette Street just north of downtown Fayetteville.
View ArticleBank OZK Adds Drew Mentzer (Movers & Shakers)
Drew Mentzer has joined the Bank OZK team in Little Rock as assistant vice president and commercial lender.
View ArticlePortion of Former Conway Airport Bought for Future Founaine Bleu
Apartment land in Conway, an office-warehouse project in North Little Rock and foreclosed property dominated by Little Rock addresses form this week’s trio of million-dollar deals.
View ArticleRick Schaeffer Fights Back Against Foreclosure Sale
Rick Schaeffer, the former University of Arkansas sports information director and basketball analyst, and his wife, Adelaide, have gone back to court to keep a bank from selling their Fayetteville home.
View ArticleLanding Camp Pike: War Brought Unusual Opportunity
America’s entry into the First World War set the stage for a historic economic development opportunity that business leaders in Little Rock seized back in the spring of 1917.
View ArticleSBA Loans in Arkansas at $214M, Up 5 Percent
The U.S. Small Business Administration said Monday that it approved more than $214 million in loans to Arkansas small businesses for fiscal year 2018, up 5 percent from the previous year.
View ArticleCommunity Bankers Group, Venture Center Launch New Accelerator
The Independent Community Bankers of America is partnering with The Venture Center in Little Rock to launch the ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator, a community bank-focused fintech accelerator program.
View ArticleSynchrony Responds to Walmart's $800M Lawsuit
Synchrony issued a statement on Friday in response to the lawsuit filed Thursday by Walmart Inc. in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
View ArticleMichael Neathery Joins Relyance (Movers & Shakers)
Michael Neathery is the new senior vice president and senior accounting officer for the senior management team at Relyance Bank of Pine Bluff.
View ArticleHammons WLR Land Sells for $3.6 Million (Real Deals)
Three parcels totaling 7.36 acres in west Little Rock exited bankruptcy after a $3.6 million transaction.
View ArticleWinning the Two-Week Sale (Craig Douglass On Consumers)
Have you taken advantage of the special two-seek sale going on? Political consumers have. It’s the sale sponsored by our democracy. And if you’re not participating, you’re missing out!
View ArticleThe Full Monte: Suits Cite Spiral of Abuse
Monte Johnston was a successful Springdale businessman with several lucrative companies, a wife and four daughters, a big house and write-ups in local publications. But in 2015, his life started...
View ArticleVOTE (Editorial)
Tuesday is upon us, so vote if you haven’t already. We owe it to the dead. We owe it even more to the living.
View ArticleBridge Purchasing Solutions, Metova to Create Payment Platform
Bridge Purchasing Solutions Inc. announced Monday that it has partnered with Metova to build and develop a first-of-its-kind digital payment platform for employers, nonprofits and health care payers.
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