Brent Conklin

Birmingham

News Editor at AL.com

Long Island native in Birmingham via Knoxville, Charlotte, Bradenton, Tampa. News editor for The Birmingham News/Alabama Media Group (https://t.co/8EcaqIKksL).

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Health stocks highlight positive Huntsville and Alabama Stock Report

Mar 29, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

The markets and our Huntsville and Alabama Stock Report closed out a short trading week on a positive note Thursday. Encompass Health was the big winner, rising 6.5%, or $5.02, to close at a 52-week high of $82.58. The nation’s largest system of rehabilitation hospitals is headquartered in Birmingham. It has seven hospitals across Alabama: Huntsville, Gadsden, Birmingham, Pelham, Montgomery, Phenix City and Dothan. Community Health Systems gained a dime, or 2.9%, to close at $3.50 a share.
ICYMI Birmingham: REV expansion, Alexander Shunnarah and dancin’ Bulldogs

Mar 17, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Birmingham News. So, to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting. REV expands business district: Two communities in downtown Birmingham should be seeing vast improvements this summer as they join the city’s expanding Business Improvement District.
ICYMI Birmingham: Hoover trash pickup, an odd primary victory and a ‘mafia-like’ towing service

Mar 10, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Birmingham News. So, to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting. Hoover trash pickup: Thousands of local AmWaste customers with Wednesday/Saturday garbage pickups will receive a new pickup schedule by the end of this month. Lede reporter Heather Gann had the details.
ICYMI Birmingham: Outdoors icons lost, Water Works spending and long-gone lower Alabama eats

Mar 3, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Birmingham News. So to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting. Outdoors icons: In just a little more than a month, Alabama has lost a trio of outdoors icons.
ICYMI Birmingham: Vestavia Hills’ plan, Brookwood Village’s future and college hoops across the state

Feb 25, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Birmingham News. So to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting. Eye on Vestavia: While Vestavia Hills works to update its long-term comprehensive plan by next year, city leaders are hammering away at a long list of other exciting projects for 2024.
ICYMI B’ham: Hoover says take a hike, what about Brookwood and is it time to buy a house?

Feb 18, 2024 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Sundays can be days for catching up on things, including local stories you may have missed in last week’s daily digital editions of The Birmingham News. So to help you out, here are some of the stories our readers found most interesting. Take a hike in Hoover: The city’s current master plan emphasizes walkable communities. Check out Heather Gann’s reporting on what that means and how will they do it?
Shares rise as Calvert steel plant co-owner Nippon agrees to buy U.S. Steel

Dec 19, 2023 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Mobile County’s major steel processor saw its shares rise Monday by more than 5 percent as joint owner Nippon Steel agreed to acquire venerable domestic steelmaker U.S. Steel. With its buyout news, U.S. Steel was the big winner Monday among stocks of interest in Mobile and across Alabama. Shares of the Pittsburgh-based steel maker that played a key role in the nation’s industrialization rose by 26 percent.
U.S. Steel shares gain more than 25 percent Monday to lead local stocks list

Dec 19, 2023 | al.com | Brent Conklin

With its buyout news, U.S. Steel was the big winner Monday among stocks of interest in Birmingham and across Alabama. The full market ended mixed as a seven-week Wall Street winning streak cooled. The S&P 500 added 0.5% Monday. Crude oil prices climbed amid worries about shipping being attacked in the Red Sea. Oil and natural gas giant BP joined the growing list of companies halting shipments along the Red Sea, a major trade route.
Crestwood’s parent fares well in stocks of local interest, but U.S. Steel the big winner

Dec 19, 2023 | al.com | Brent Conklin

Shares in Crestwood Medical Center parent company Community Health Systems rose by more than 5 percent on Monday, a day that saw Wall Street’s seven-week winning streak come to an end. Stocks of interest in Huntsville and across Alabama fared similarly, with more winners than losers but only barely so.
Wood pellet manufacturer led the way as local stocks rose on Tuesday

Jun 14, 2023 | al.com | Brent Conklin