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Kansas City’s largest private company, Dairy Famers of America (DFA), emerged from a difficult 2020 even larger. DFA reported an increase in sales and profits for the previous year, according to a news release on its website. Dairy Farmers of…
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On Tuesday, April 6, Kansas City, Missouri, voters will decide on the one percent city earnings tax. The tax is paid by city residents, non-residents who work in the city and businesses located in the city. According to the city,…
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The acquisition of Kansas City-headquartered Custom Truck One Source has been finalized, the specialized truck and heavy equipment solutions provider selling to Nesco Holdings, Inc. News of the acquisition was originally announced back in December 2020. Today, the transaction closed…
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In the week ending March 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 719,000, an increase of 61,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised down by 26,000 from 684,000 to 658,000. The…
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Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021, extending the Paycheck Protection Program an additional two months to May 31. “Nearly 90,000 business owners are still in line, and there’s money left,” Biden said. For…
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Prime Capital Investment Advisors (PCIA) closed on a deal Thursday bringing on Arkansas-based Sphere Wealth Management. The transaction adds $50 million in assets under management (AUM) to Prime's $11.2 billion in AUM. The deal has added more than 200 families…
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Stocks swung wildly following last week’s FOMC's highly anticipated meeting as the yield curve pulled back, steepened, then pulled back once more. The central bank sharply upgraded its 2021 GDP growth forecast to 6.5%, the largest annual output since 1984,…
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