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		<title><![CDATA[Labor Market Stays Sturdy: US Employers Add 199,000 Jobs in November]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate has now remained below 4% for 22 straight months, the longest such streak since the late 1960s.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:40:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elopak to Build $70M Packaging Plant at Little Rock Port]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elopak of Norway says it will build its first U.S. production plant in the Port of Little Rock, spending about $70 million and eventually employing more than 100 people.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:14:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SPONSORED: Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act: Top 5 Things Contractors Need to Know]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investing in Arkansas Steel with Global Principal Partners' David Stickler]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stickler is senior managing partner at Global Principal Partners LLC of Miami, the company behind the $700 million rebar mill in Osceola.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US Economic Growth for Last Quarter Revised Up to 5.2%]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government had previously estimated that the economy grew at a 4.9% annual rate last quarter.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:45:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arkansas Business Announces Finalists for Innovation Pacesetter Award]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The category honors startups or existing companies that are remaking an old industry or charting an entirely new course to create a new market.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:16:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US Consumer Confidence Rises in November]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The survey also showed that Americans' expectations of a recession in the next 12 months declined to the lowest level so far this year.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:46:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Biden Says He's Helped Lower Inflation as He Hosts First Meeting of Supply Chain Council]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Biden used the council meeting to announce 30 actions to improve access to medicine and needed economic data as well as other programs tied to the production and shipment of goods.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:52:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What to Watch in 2024 (Lance Turner Editor's Note)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lithium, steel and, yes, politics will make 2024 a big year for business in Arkansas.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nathan Kovaleski Hired as Construction Administrator at Cromwell Architects Engineers (Movers & Shakers)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[He previously served as project manager at ECO Construction.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standard Lithium Boasts Test Plant Results Near El Dorado]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The publicly traded Canadian company said two tests show that its lithium extraction process is "ready to scale."]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:02:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Americans Feel Gloomy About the Economy Despite Falling Inflation and Low Unemployment]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy has repeatedly defied predictions of a coming recession. Yet according to a raft of polls and surveys, most Americans hold a glum view of the economy.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:54:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Julie Chambers Promoted to CFO at First Service Bank (Movers & Shakers)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[She previously was SVP of government-guaranteed lending.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nonprofit Transaction Surpasses $3.5 Million (Real Deals)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visioncorp of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bought the 6818 Murray St. manufacturing facility from North Carolina’s Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind Inc.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Worker Shortfall (Lance Turner Editor's Note)]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas is facing a “most severe” worker shortage but has an opportunity to reverse course.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Dives Into South Arkansas]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commercializing lithium should be natural for the Natural State, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said last week as Exxon Mobil Corp. announced the start of major brine operations in south Arkansas.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Arkansas' Unemployment Rate Rises to 3.1%]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas' unemployment rate rose two-tenths of a percentage point from September to settle at 3.1% in October, according to a report Friday from the state Division of Workforce Services.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canoo Q3 Results Show Narrowed Losses, More Cash on Hand]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electric-vehicle maker Canoo Inc. reports a third-quarter loss of $112 million, an improvement from the $117 million loss it reported in the same quarter last year.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:37:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US Producer Prices Slide 0.5% in October, Biggest Drop Since 2020]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. wholesale prices fell sharply last month as inflationary pressure continued to ease in the face of a year and a half of higher interest rates.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:11:00 -0600</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dannelley, Warren Get Lifetime Achievement Awards at CFO of the Year]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kristi Dannelley, founder and principal at GreenPoint CFO of Benton and Charles W. Warren, CFO of the Fort Smith School District, were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the CFO of the Year luncheon Nov. 2 in Little Rock.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:25:00 -0600</pubDate>
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