Business torrents

Total revenue at Overland-based Build-A-Bear Workshop rose 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter to $125.8 million, up from $123.1 million in the same period a […]

The balance of power among dealmakers is shifting, and this year’s World Economic Forum is proof: A record number of executives from emerging markets will […]

China’s 10.3 percent economic growth last year drove the biggest increase in the nation’s rural incomes in a quarter century, bolstering efforts to spur […]

Commercial construction remained largely in a funk this year, but the St. Louis area had more hits than misses among developments the Post-Dispatch described in […]

Taiwan’s central bank said it will step up curbs on the use of exchange-rate derivatives to combat currency speculation by foreigners.
Banks’ holdings of non-deliverable […]

Eugene Moser is paying some of his truckers to drive empty half the time.
Canadian companies have been asking Cambridge, Ontario- based Challenger Motor Freight […]

ROHO Group warehouse expansion completed in Belleville
Work has been completed on an 11,600-square-foot expansion of the ROHO Group factory in Belleville.
Swansea-based Holland Construction Services was […]

Thad Simons, president and chief executive of St. Charles-based Novus International, has been named Ernst & Young’s entrepreneur of the year in the distribution and […]

As the foreclosure crisis continues unabated and the midterm elections approach, at least 12 states have issued guidelines that address the complicated issue of […]

Welcome to the new stock market norm: volatility.
That’s Chris Kuehl’s take. He’s managing director for Armada Corporate Intelligence, as well as an economist for the […]