Growth: New vehicle sales in the U.S. are projected to have risen 6.7% in November from a year earlier, driven by higher discounts to clear elevated inventory, according to a new joint report by ...

Mortgage demand grew 6.3% last week after mortgage rates dropped for the first time in two months, CNBC reports.  Mortgage applications to buy a home increased 12% from the previous week and were 52% ...

The 40,000-square foot office building that most recently housed engineering consulting firm S&B Engineers and Constructors changed hands recently. S&B sold the property through Northden Holdings LTD ...

Luxury brands have lost about 50 million customers in the past two years, while secondhand businesses and lower-price competitors are seeing upticks in their sales, The Wall Street Journal reports. ...

The US economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September on strong consumer spending and a surge in exports, the government said Wednesday, leaving unchanged its initial ...

Baton Rouge-based Central Title & Closing Co. LLC is suing Lafayette-based Central Title LLC for trademark infringement.

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is considering exchanging its traditional chamber of commerce model to become an economic ...

Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay. On Nov. 15, a federal judge in ...

As labor market risks have somewhat decreased, Federal Reserve officials are maintaining broad support for a careful approach to future rate cuts, minutes from their latest policy meeting showed.

On Dec. 7, St. George voters will decide whether to transfer control of the revenue from the 2% sales tax collected in the new city from East Baton Rouge Parish to St. George’s government. The tax ...

A Senate subcommittee report released Tuesday shows that from 2018 to 2023 five major U.S. airlines collected a combined $12.4 billion in fees from passengers wanting to select seats or have more ...

Four proposed constitutional amendments appear on the Dec. 7 ballot, for which early voting is underway, the USA Today Network reports.  The proposed amendments range from expanding the Judiciary ...