It's been almost two years since Arkansas Business listed the state's top stockholders based on the value of publicly disclosed stock. Since then, the Walton family's fortune — the part disclosed publicly — has increased by more than $20 billion.
A Louisiana farmer pleaded guilty last month to stealing nearly $17 million by making a series of fraudulent loans and advances from a list of victims.
After a decade of hope and false starts, the revitalization of downtown Texarkana achieved a breakthrough with the sale July 31 of the historic Hotel Grim to a housing development group.
Family-owned Hayden Group Inc. of Sheridan produces sand tailor-made for use in golf course bunkers around the nation, including The Alotian Club in Arkansas. read more >
U.S. home sales increased 2.5% in July, a sign that lower mortgage rates have produced a spurt of home-buying. read more >
Arkansas Business' 2019 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners will be recognized at a luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. read more >
A number of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump's economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. read more >
Financial giant Wells Fargo is the latest company snared in a multimillion-dollar legal strategy honed in Arkansas: filing class-action suits over unwanted faxes. read more >
Before WestFax Inc. was hit last year with a $21.1 million class-action judgment in Arkansas involving unwanted faxes, the client company that made the fax solicitation was allowed to exit the case by saying it couldn't afford even a modest judgment. read more >
The search for nearly $3.2 million from a once-secret 2013 settlement and possession of a grand home valued at $1.9 million by the Benton County assessor remain at center stage in the bankruptcy of Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart. read more >
In every case, risk itself is compounded by incompetent, uninterested management. read more >
It takes some doing to make Wells Fargo look like a sympathetic victim, but the legal community in Pope County has managed it. read more >
Affiliates of B&M Management Co. of Montgomery, Alabama, bought the Stonebridge and Carrington Park apartment projects from affiliates of Philadelphia's Independence Realty Trust. read more >
Brock Fletcher has been hired by Armor Bank of Forrest City as president of its new Jonesboro market, and Bryan Wagner has been hired as senior vice president of commercial lending and business development. read more >
Arkansas' unemployment rate dropped by one-tenth of a percentage point in July, to 3.4% from 3.5% in June. read more >
Bryan Scoggins has been named president of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, effective immediately. read more >
The sale of west Little Rock apartment developments starts this week's procession of million-dollar real estate transactions, followed by a Searcy hotel and three Sherwood properties. read more >
While the average SBA loan in Arkansas last year was just shy of $600,000, the smallest was only $5,800. read more >
The unemployment rates in most of Arkansas' metro areas continued to move downward or stay stable in June, with Fayetteville, Jonesboro, Little Rock and Texarkana seeing declines. read more >
An affiliate of Nationwide Postal Management Inc. purchased the 19,500-SF post office administration building at 420 Natural Resources Drive in Little Rock. read more >
The proposed sale of the last lender headquartered in Nevada County represents a nearly $8.4 million cash transaction. read more >
The sale of the $34.6 million-asset First State Bank of Crossett to Capital Bancorp Inc. of Delhi, Louisiana, announced 18 months ago, is now expected to close before year's end. read more >
President Donald Trump is not letting up on his attacks on the Federal Reserve, calling for "substantial" Fed rate cuts to allow the dollar to fall in value against foreign currencies. read more >
U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell sharply this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan touching its lowest level since November 2016. read more >
Donna Herring, the former Camden real estate agent who orchestrated the infamous fake will case, has filed for Chapter 13 reorganization, listing $101,000 in debts and $110,000 in assets. read more >
Farmland in south-central Lonoke County, a fast-food eatery in Conway, a mini-storage project in downtown Little Rock, a medical office building in west Little Rock and commercial sites in Benton form this week's list of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
A northwest Arkansas real estate investor has filed a second lawsuit in an attempt to free up an abandoned Kmart building he owns in Springdale. read more >
The number of publicly traded companies in Arkansas is stable this year thanks to a couple of small IPOs and the federal government shutdown late last year, and Walmart executives continue to dominate the list of highest paid executives. read more >
Glen Una Holdings Little Rock LLC of Los Gatos, California, purchased the 104 Champs Blvd. project from RCS-Little Rock LLC, an affiliate of Real Capital Solutions of Louisville, Colorado. read more >
Jennali Cybulaski has been named vice president and private banking adviser at Arvest Bank in Little Rock. She will serve central Arkansas in this new role. read more >
Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson has been named to the Export-Import Bank of the United States 2019 Advisory Committee. read more >
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday for the first time in a decade to try to counter threats ranging from uncertainties caused by President Donald Trump's trade wars to chronically low inflation and a dim global outlook. read more >
Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff says it will acquire all outstanding capital stock of The Landrum Co. of Columbia, Missouri, the parent company of Landmark Bank. read more >
