Past Articles by Andrew Schneider
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Comerica Expects Texas, Houston Job Growth To Slow Comerica Bank is forecasting another strong year for the Texas and Houston economies, if not quite as strong as 2012. |
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Texas Exports Top $265 Billion In 2012 The Commerce Department says both Texas and the U.S. as a whole set new records for annual exports last year. |
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Interest.com: Houstonians Spend Too Much On New Cars A new study by personal finance website Interest.com finds that Houston ranks 16th out of the 25 largest U.S. metro areas in terms of new car affordability. |
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As Sequester Looms, FAA Aims To Shield Bush, Hobby From Cuts The White House is warning of significant disruptions to aviation, if the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester take effect as scheduled Friday. So how will the cuts affect service in Houston? |
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Energy Sector a Major Target for Chinese Military Hackers Computer security firm Mandiant says the energy sector is one of the top targets for cyber espionage authorized by the Chinese government. |
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Commercial Construction Fuels Surge in Building Permits for January The City of Houston issued more building permits last month than in any other January for the past decade. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Bob Harvey Bob Harvey took over as chief executive of the Greater Houston Partnership at the height of last year's election campaign. Harvey joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the Bauer Business Focus to discuss some of the business group’s top public policy concerns. |
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Crude-by-Rail Shipments Take Off as Pipelines Back Up The amount of crude oil hauled in U.S. freight trains more than tripled last year, as production from shale formations surged. |
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Hong Kong Bids For Houston Business Hong Kong is making a push to attract a greater share of Houston's trade and investment in the Far East. |
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UK Diplomat: US-EU Trade Pact Would Mean $18B A Year For Texas Businesses Britain's deputy ambassador to the United States is asking Texas politicians to support a new, expanded trade agreement with the European Union. |
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Companies Draw Down Gulf Crude Stocks To Limit Tax Liability The Energy Information Administration estimates Gulf Coast crude oil inventories fell by 12.5 million barrels in December. |
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Houston Home Inventory Drops To 13-Year Low January marked the 20th straight month of positive home sales, according to the Houston Association of Realtors. |
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BP Civil Trial Set To Begin Monday BP says it has failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week’s civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon blowout. |
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Harris County Foreclosures Hit Four-Year Low Postings and foreclosures for Harris County fell again in February. |
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Carnival Ordeal Could Have Spillover Effects For Other Cruise Lines The ordeal is over for passengers of the Carnival Triumph, but the troubles for Carnival Cruise Lines may be only beginning. |
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Proposed White Stallion Power Plant Cancelled An energy company says it is halting development of a coal-fired power plant 90 miles southwest of Houston that ran into fierce local opposition. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Philip Playfair Lowfoot is one of the leading companies involved in analyzing smart meter data, helping consumers track their electricity use and hold down their bills. The Toronto-based firm recently opened its U.S. headquarters here in Houston. Its chairman and CEO, Philip Playfair, joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Toyota To Pay $29 Million To Settle Sudden Acceleration Claims Texas has joined 29 other states in a multimillion dollar settlement with Toyota and its North American subsidiaries. |
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First Steps Toward A Transatlantic Trade Agreement President Obama's decision to launch free trade negotiations with the European Union could yield significant benefits for Houston. |
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Office Romances On The Rise, Bringing More HR Headaches Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and that means a boost for chocolate and greeting card sales. But for other businesses, romance in the air is a potential nightmare. |
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Coast Guard Escorting Disabled Cruise Ship To Alabama The Coast Guard says a second tug boat has reached a disabled cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico and is helping tow it to Mobile, Alabama. |
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Global Energy Deals Top $320 Billion In 2012 A new study by Deloitte Consulting finds the value of energy mergers and acquisitions rose last year — even as the number of deals fell. |
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Houston Economy Gains Ground In January Regional economic activity picked up in January according to the latest survey by the Institute for Supply Management – Houston. |
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Loss Of Private Funding Batters Life Sciences Sector A drop in venture capital funding could hurt Houston’s burgeoning life sciences sector. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Brock Wagner When Brock Wagner opened the first craft brewery in Texas, he set a goal of producing 50,000 barrels a beer per year. He passed 49,000 barrels in 2012 and shows no sign of slowing down. The founder-brewer of Saint Arnold Brewing Company joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Northeastern Blizzard Triggers Thousands Of Flight Cancellations A massive blizzard bearing down on the Northeast is disrupting air traffic. |
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Sally Jewell Gets Nod For Interior President Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell to replace Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior is earning praise from the oil and gas sector. |
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Former Sen. Hutchison Joins Bracewell & Giuliani Retired U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has joined the Dallas office of Bracewell & Giuliani as senior counsel. |
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Veterans Job Fair Returns To Houston The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is holding its latest "Hiring Our Heroes" job fair in Houston today. |
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Texas Recoveries From Medicaid Fraud Top $400 Million The Texas Attorney General's Office reports the state has recovered more than $400 million lost to Medicaid fraud over the past decade. |
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Sysco Reports Record $11 Billion In Quarterly Sales Houston-based Sysco announced net earnings of more than $220 million for the quarter ending in December. |
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Proposed LNG Export Terminals Divide Industry Consumers The Energy Department is weighing permits for six proposed terminals for exporting liquefied natural gas from the Texas Gulf Coast. That's drawing a mixed response from industry. |
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With Fiscal Cliff Avoided, Oil Companies Step Up Investment Oil and gas companies are stepping up investment for 2013, citing greater certainty over their potential tax bills. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Bruce McGovern It's been one month since Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act. The law averted the combination of steep tax hikes and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff. Joining Andrew Schneider on the Bauer Business Focus to discuss what the act means for tax filers is Bruce McGovern, an associate dean at South Texas College of Law. |
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Job Growth Fueling Boom In Construction Nearly $11 billion in construction contracts were awarded in the 10-county Houston metro area last year, up nearly 20% from 2011. |
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Hiring Flat At Texas Small Businesses U.S. small businesses added 20,000 jobs in January, according to the latest analysis by Intuit Payroll. |
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Saint Arnold's Annual Production Nears 50,000 Barrels Houston-based Saint Arnold Brewing Company shipped more than 49,000 barrels of beer in 2012. Production rose 22% from 2011. |
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US Trust: Tax Code Changes Should Help Business Planning Houston employers are grappling with changes to the federal tax code put in place early this month. |
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New Apartment Construction Brings No Relief On Rents The rent for a typical urban apartment in Houston is now rising between 5% to 10% a year. That's roughly two to four times the national average. KUHF Business News Reporter Andrew Schneider looks at why it's getting so tough to find an affordable apartment. |
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Commerce Dept., DHL Team Up To Help Small Exporters Small businesses often have a tough time cracking international markets. The U.S. Commerce Department is teaming up with express delivery companies to help them out. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Hesam Panahi Next month, the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business will launch its own startup accelerator, Red Labs. It’s the brainchild of Hesam Panahi, a clinical assistant professor at Bauer. Panahi joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
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Offshore Drillers Best 'Big Four' In 2012 Trading Economic research firm IHS is reporting that shares of offshore oil and gas drillers outperformed those of multi-service providers in 2012. |
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Tougher Audits On The Way For Public Companies New regulations are on the way that will make auditing more intrusive, and more expensive, for Houston corporations. |
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Comerica: Texas Economy Hits Post-Recession High Comerica Bank says the Texas economy continued to grow in November. |
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Nebraska OKs Keystone XL Construction Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has approved a new route for the Keystone XL oil pipeline that avoids the state's environmentally sensitive Sandhills Region. |
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James Davis, Ex-Stanford CFO, Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison James Davis, the former number two man in R. Allen Stanford's financial empire, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for his role in the Stanford Ponzi scheme. |
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Where Would Refined Keystone XL Crude Go? The White House is expected to decide later this year whether to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline — connecting the Alberta oil sands to Port Arthur and Houston. Opponents of the pipeline are raising questions about just how much it would do to improve U.S. energy security. |
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Hydraulic fracturing — "fracking" for short — is helping energy companies to unlock domestic oil and gas formations long considered inaccessible. But such fuels still account for only a fragment of total U.S. production. |
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Texas And Houston Jobless Rates End Year At 6% Houston's unemployment rate edged up in December, even as the state's jobless rate fell. That's according to the latest release from the Texas Workforce Commission. |
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Bauer Business Focus: Sir Peter Westmacott Nearly a thousand Houston companies report business or trade ties to the United Kingdom. Sir Peter Westmacott is Her Majesty's Ambassador to the United States. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week's installment of the Bauer Business Focus. |
