Business

Baton Rouge’s b1Bank is planning to launch a line of derivatives products and services, which will provide clients with more flexibility managing interest rate risks.

The nation’s employers scaled back their hiring in October, adding a modest but still decent 150,000 jobs, a sign that the labor market remains...

Good news or bad news first? Because there was plenty of both this week for the fledgling U.S. offshore wind industry.

The upcoming sale of federal Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases was officially postponed today amid legal fights over protections for an endangered species of whale.

A Louisiana legislative task force established to consider the local impacts of carbon capture and sequestration will begin meeting on Monday. 

The Federal Reserve rolled out its FedNow real-time payment system in July of this year, which allows companies to pay their suppliers in seconds,...

A $2.1 billion plan to replace the aging Interstate 10 bridge in Lake Charles suffered a potentially fatal blow last week when state lawmakers rejected the project’s financing plan because it relied heavily on tolls criticized by trucking companies, reports NOLA.com.

The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, expects shoppers will spend more this year than last year, but their pace will slow given all the economic uncertainty.

An industrial contractor’s ability to maintain a healthy profit margin can be tenuous, at best, in an age of fluctuating material prices, rising wages...

Baton Rouge attorney Jude Bursavich recalls a case that involved an employee who took company books home for the weekend, quit the job on...

Over the years, I’ve talked to many people who landed a job that didn’t exist until they imagined it into being. My first guest when...

My wife calls me ChatJG because whenever she asks me for the right words for one of her social media posts, I can spit...

Area entrepreneur David Facey has launched Bar Pals, an app that allows patrons to rate and review their favorite drinks and bartenders. 

According to research out this week from jobs platform Indeed, employers are more commonly advertising shortened weeks in job postings.

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers sold $500 million of junk bonds Wednesday after receiving strong demand from investors that let it cut the yield it is paying on the debt, Bloomberg reports. 

As the year winds down, public companies are releasing their Q3 quarterly reports. 

The Baton Rouge Police Department recently began providing around-the-clock patrols of the downtown area, following a few high-profile incidents. 

A new analysis of data dating back to before the COVID-19 pandemic shows Louisiana ranked among the worst states for personal income growth.

LSU and Tulane University are receiving a $22 million award from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to lead a consortium seeking ways to save the ecologically fragile Lower Mississippi River Delta, the schools announced today.

Baton Rouge-based H&E Equipment Services announced today that it is broadening its presence on the West Coast with the acquisition of a California-based provider of non-residential construction and industrial equipment.