Fears about the global impact of the coronavirus outbreak has hammered Louisiana stock prices, caused some businesses to adjust supply chains, dust off contingency plans and affected some overseas economic development trips.
Crude oil prices slumped 4.2% over worries about global travel and shipping.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank nearly 1,200 points Thursday, deepening a weeklong global market rout caused by worries that the coronavirus outbreak will wreak havoc on the global economy.
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Chabill’s Tire & Auto Service, which has six locations in metro Baton Rouge, has purchased a 0.9-acre site in Denham Springs.
A nighttime travel ban for river pilots navigating a stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is being enforced again after a roughly two-week reprieve.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the name LHC Group and Ochsner Health System will operate five Egan Health and Hospice locations. The story has been corrected.
Four Louisiana industrial facilities in the New Orleans-Baton Rouge corridor, and a fifth in Lake Charles, are among the nation's 10 biggest generators of airborne toxicity in populated areas, a new report says.
Specialty chemical manufacturer Bercen Chemicals LLC in Denham Springs plans to invest another $10 million for an expansion expected to wrap up by 2022.
Venture Global LNG signed 20-year deal to sell some of its liquefied natural gas to a French utility business from its proposed Plaquemines Parish export terminal in Louisiana.
The Hammond Aire Plaza shopping center at the intersection of Airline and Old Hammond highways has been sold to a pair of Houston investment groups.
Roughly two weeks after the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery had an overnight fire that burned for several hours, the company is using flares at the plant — a sign that repairs are taking it close to restarting units impacted by the incident.
Motza’s Pizza Pub is opening in the next month or so in the former Mellow Mushroom spot at 4250 Burbank Drive.
Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising Co. reported adjusted funds from operations during the fourth quarter jumped to $161 million from $150 million a year earlier.
The Embassy Apartments, a complex located off Burbank Drive, has been sold to a New York investor for $11.6 million.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday, following a sell-off in overseas markets, as a surge in virus cases and a worrisome spread of the disease outside China sent investors running for safety.The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 866…
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Studyville, a tutoring lounge for junior high and high school students, is opening in Perkins Rowe in time for the 2020-21 school year.
Baton Rouge-based Investar Bank has completed the previously announced acquisition of two branches of PlainsCapital Bank in Alice and Victoria, Texas.
The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry formally canceled contracts with a Lake Providence biotechnology plant that has been closed since 2016, a move that will allow East Carroll Parish officials to collect two years worth of back property t…
H&E Equipment Services Inc. reported fourth-quarter net income of $21.9 million, or 61 cents per share, compared with $25.1 million, or 70 cents per share, a year ago.
Winnings by casinos in the Baton Rouge market were up 13.2% in January from a year ago, thanks to a big month at L’Auberge Baton Rouge.
Local restaurateur Wayne Stabiler, who announced last week he was taking over the former Sammy’s Grill location on Highland Road, said he is keeping the name of the popular local eatery.
The public radio stations in Baton Rouge and New Orleans are joining with sister stations in Alabama and Mississippi to launch a regional news service.
Harb’s Oasis, a longtime Baton Rouge garden center that closed at the end of 2019, is reopening as a weekly market featuring farmers, artists, crafts makers and food sellers.
DSLD has purchased 70 lots in a subdivision near Old Hammond and Airline highways for $714,000.
Consumer and business spending in East Baton Rouge Parish was up 1.7% for 2019, rebounding to spending levels seen in the aftermath of the August 2016 flood.
Pan-American Life Insurance said its annual earnings has risen to $90 million in 2019, compared to $66 million in 2018.
Amerisafe, a DeRidder writer of hazardous worker's compensation insurance, earned $34 million in profits during fourth quarter 2019, up from $18.8 million during the same time frame in 2018.
The former Macy’s store in Cortana Mall has been sold for $1.65 million.
The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry is poised to cancel some economic incentives this week for an $80 million bioenergy plant in Lake Providence which was idled in 2016, only a few years after opening its doors.
Amedisys, the Baton Rouge-based home health and hospice company, generated $27.7 million in profits during fourth quarter, or 83 cents per share, up from $27.5 million during fourth quarter 2018.
Shintech Louisiana LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of the world's largest producer of PVC, also known as polyvinyl chloride, began production of ethylene at its Iberville Parish plant recently.
New Orleans-based Key Real Estate Co. has reached a deal to buy a 4-acre lot in the Rouzan site and build a 280-unit apartment complex on the site, a move that developers say will be a “game changer” for the mixed-use community.
Houston-based McDermott International Inc. — a company with ties in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge — owes tens of millions to businesses across Louisiana.
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is accepting applications until March 13 for its Diversity Star Award, which honor regional businesses that champion inclusion.
Southern Ag plans small-farmers event
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Houston-based McDermott International Inc. — a company with ties in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge — owes tens of millions to businesses across Louisiana.
The metro area is under a dense fog advisory until 6 a.m. Wednesday.
“Scouting programs will continue throughout this process," the Boy Scouts said in a statement.
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is accepting applications until March 13 for its Diversity Star Award, which honor regional businesses that champion inclusion.
Southern Ag plans small-farmers event
Baton Rouge area
LOUISIANA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Baton Rouge area
Innovation Catalyst is heading down a new path with a fresh CEO at the helm, a bigger board of directors overseeing efforts and a plan to spin up a new for-profit venture capital fund.
Labor unions that have been left out of major construction projects in southwest Louisiana are blasting Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry after The Times-Picayune |The Advocate reported Friday that companies owned by Landry or his brother bro…
The Mississippi River is forecast to rise to 15 feet in New Orleans by next Friday and to continue to rise to 16 feet by March 3, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service's Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center. But the…
Baton Rouge-area home sales were up 18% in January compared to the year before when numbers likely were affected by a federal government shutdown.