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Well, tourism is picking up every day in New Orleans, and the city is entering the biggest tourist season of the year. New Years is always extremely busy for the city, and a couple of months later, we have Mardi Gras. And soon after that, summer begins which is a huge tourist season for the city. Antoine's will make it through, it's just struglling like all small business are right now. Every small business is "in question" right now, and that's not something suprising.

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2006 Fortune 1000 companies and rankings in Louisiana:

State Rank {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} Company {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} National Rank {sodEmoji.{sodEmoji.|}} City

1. Entergy------------------218---------New Orleans

2. Freeport-McMoRan----480----------New Orleans

3. Shaw Group------------564----------Baton Rouge

4. CenturyTel--------------697----------Monroe

5. SCP Pool----------------945----------Covington (Greater New Orleans)

Fastest Growing Companies in the Nation: Growth in Profits (1 Yr.)

1. Kerr-McGee

2. Lyondell Chemical

3. Echostar Communications

4. TRW Automotive Holdings

5. IAC/InterActiveCorp

6. Freeport-McMoRan Cpr. & Gld

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fort...0/states/L.html

It's nice to see, and very clear that even after Katrina, New Orleans is the leader of big business in Louisiana. With both of the state's only Fortune 500 companies being HQ'd here, and 3 of the state's 5 Fortune 1000 companies being HQ'd in the area.

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Figured I'd revive this thread with some great news for the state. :thumbsup:

I apologize as this is a New Orleans-centered article coming out of WWL, but it also keys on the entire state:

Louisiana continues to buck the national economic trend

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Based on what I heard on the radio, New Orleans added over 17,000 jobs in 2007, Baton Rouge added over 7,000, Shreveport added over 6,000 jobs, and Lafayette added over 4,300. Louisiana as a whole added 51,000 jobs in 2007. That, along with the recent news that the real estate and business markets in both New Orleans and Baton Rouge have been almost completely uneffected by the nation's downward economic trend, shows that this could very well be the start of a real upswing for the state of Louisiana.

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