WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit tumbled nearly 15 percent in January as imports fell and exports rose. Shipments of American goods to China skidded to the lowest level in more than eight years as the world's two biggest…
NEW YORK (AP) - Stock indexes veered between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday on Wall Street as the market cooled off after posting solid gains a day earlier. Losses in technology, health care and energy companies outweighed gains…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even before federal prosecutors unsealed charges against Michael Avenatti, the lawyer best known for representing porn actress Stormy Daniels in legal battles against President Donald Trump was facing legal scrutiny for his business practices. Avenatti was…
NEW YORK (AP) — When Matt Barber and Joel Doub bought a fishing rod manufacturer two years ago, the plan was for previous owner Tom Morgan to stay with the business for five years to mentor them. But six months…
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Central Bank is ready to take further action to help the economy if the outlook takes a sudden turn for the worse, bank President Mario Draghi said Wednesday. Draghi said the bank would take…
NEW YORK (AP) - Centene is spending more than $15 billion on rival WellCare to dive deeper into government-funded health coverage in the same week that President Donald Trump's administration renewed its attack on the Affordable Care Act. The insurer said…
NEW ORLEANS - For the second year in a row, Hogs for the Cause will be a cashless event. Guests can quickly pay for food and drinks with the simple tap of a wristband that acts as both a ticket…
NEW ORLEANS – If you’ve ever dreamed of potentially reaching thousands of customers with your American products, now is the time to act: Walmart is accepting applications for its 6th annual Open Call, scheduled for June 18 and 19 at the…
NEW ORLEANS—The New Orleans Business Alliance, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System today announced the two finalists who will compete in the second New Orleans Health Innovators Challenge Pitch Finale. Details were shared in a…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It took a while, but finally — and with the carefully curated help of Oprah, Big Bird and Goldman Sachs — Apple has at last unveiled a new streaming TV service, its own branded credit card…
LONDON (AP) — Software engineers, entrepreneurs and product managers huddle in small groups, brainstorming ideas and scrawling thoughts onto Post-it Notes on a wall. The project leader exhorts them to "think of products around these themes." It's not a startup…
PARIS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Monday to work with European leaders to seek fairer international trade rules and to address the world's economic and security challenges, establishing "a trust-based partnership" that seemed like a rebuke to Donald…
The saying that debt is easy to get into and hard to get out of hits home for younger Americans: At the end of 2018, 18- to 29-year-olds carried over $1 trillion in debt, according to the Federal Reserve. That's…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices rose at their slowest pace in more than six years in January, as higher mortgage rates last year weighed on sales. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index increased 3.6 percent in January…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of homes under construction fell 8.7 percent in February, as ground breakings for single-family houses plunged to their lowest level in nearly two years. The Commerce Department said that builders started construction at a seasonally…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it wants the entire Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare," struck down. In a filing Monday with the New Orleans court, the administration said the entire law should…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Government Ethics is refusing to certify one of the final financial disclosure reports of ex-Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, citing the cut-rate $50-a-night deal Pruitt had for a luxury Washington condo. The…
Stocks rose broadly in early trading Tuesday on Wall Street, erasing the market's modest losses from a day earlier. Technology companies powered the rally, with chipmakers among the biggest gainers. Nvidia rose 3.7 percent and Advanced Micro Devices added 2.3…
NEW ORLEANS - Jackson Lewis P.C., one of the country’s preeminent workplace law firms, announced that Robert W. Rachal has joined the firm’s New Orleans office. Rachal joins the firm from Holifield Janich Rachal Ferrera, PLLC, where he focused his practice on complex…
PARIS (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping was greeted with full honors Monday during a state visit to France in which he is expected to sign multibillion-dollar deals on energy, the food industry, transport and other sectors as well as…
NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Medical Center- Jefferson Highway announced today that neurosurgeon Daniel Denis, MD, performed the hospital’s first sacroiliac joint fusion surgery using the minimally invasive iFuse Implant System® - a procedure for patients with unresolved low back symptoms…
NEW ORLEANS – The director of the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute (JOHVI) Christopher J. White, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FESC has been recognized by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) as a 2019 Master of the ACC Award…
NEW ORLEANS – Urban Properties Real Estate, a local commercial brokerage and development firm, is announced the hiring of Genevieve Douglass as it’s director of marketing and operations. Details were shared in a press release. In this role, Douglass is responsible for…
NEW ORLEANS – In less than a month, thousands of runners from across the Gulf South will seek to break 10k records while thousands more will take in the scenic sights and sounds of New Orleans as they walk and run the…
NEW ORLEANS, La. - The University of New Orleans and Latter & Blum, Inc. will present the 30th Dr. Ivan Miestchovich Economic Outlook & Real Estate Forecast Seminar on Friday, April 5, 2019 on the University’s campus. It will take…
HAMMOND, La. – MedCentris, one of the leading wound healing companies in the nation, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2019. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only about 30% of small businesses reach the 10-year mark. Details were shared…
Some people are much better savers than spenders. That can become a problem. Certified financial planner DeDe Jones recalls clients, retired schoolteachers, who loved to travel but kept putting off the trip to China and Southeast Asia they'd always wanted…
NEW YORK (AP) - Apple is expected to announce Monday that it's launching a video service that could compete with Netflix, Amazon and cable TV itself. It's a long-awaited attempt from the iPhone maker, several years after Netflix turned "binge watching"…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's business economists foresee a sharp slowdown in U.S. economic growth over the next two years, in sharp contrast to the Trump administration's predictions that growth will accelerate this year and next. That finding comes from…
BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mostly down on Monday, extending last week's late sell-off as surveys suggest significant slowdowns in economic growth in Europe and the U.S. In midday trading Monday, the FTSE 100 in Britain lost 0.6 percent…
