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An update from Main Street Fort Smith indicates more than $4 million in announced and documented downtown property developments in the first half of 2026. The report also notes three new downtown businesses and two expanded businesses in the January-June period. The update notes that more than $4.3 million in documented and committed downtown property […]
Twenty-five years after the acronym BRIC was coined to describe the emerging engines of global growth, the grouping returns to New Delhi at a moment when the world economy is again being tested by war, energy shocks and geopolitical fragmentation. The timing could hardly be more pertinent. West Asia is heating up again, with the […]
March 5, 2026 This piece is sponsored by South Dakota Biotech. South Dakota Biotech marks two decades of innovation meeting economic development in 2026 – with plenty of reasons to be optimistic for the industry’s future. “The biotech industry is resilient,” said Joni Ekstrum, executive director of South Dakota Biotech, state affiliate of industry organization […]
Proactive financing transaction creates capacity to meet accelerating demand for the Company’s AI-Native Cloud platform in 2027 and 2028 BROOMFIELD, Colo., September 10, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for inference and agentic workloads, today announced that it has entered into a new $725 million equipment finance facility (the “Equipment Finance […]
After a quiet August in the US–Iran war with no major strikes by either side and improving commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, the world was preparing for a relatively calm period in the region. Futures contracts for a barrel of American-produced WTI crude oil fell to $82 in late August, while British-produced Brent […]
BOSTON — Nestle SA has “more to be done” in its North America business after a disappointing second quarter, said Anna Manz, chief financial officer. In a Sept. 8 presentation at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston, Manz said that while the consumer environment in North America has been weak, it was not […]
Investors choosing between iShares Core 1-5 Year USD Bond ETF (ISTB -0.06%) and Schwab Short-Term U.S. Treasury ETF (SCHO -0.04%) are weighing higher yield and credit diversity against rock-bottom costs and federal safety. Both funds target the shorter end of the yield curve to minimize interest rate risk while generating monthly income. While the iShares […]
Artificial intelligence could make the US economy substantially richer by 2030 without delivering better pay or greater job security to knowledge workers, according to a new economic outlook from Anthropic. The company’s Economics team has modelled three scenarios—modest, substantial and extreme—based on how quickly AI capabilities improve, how widely the technology is adopted and how […]
