Yahoo! News : Business : AP - Toyota has launched a media campaign to bolster its reputation for quality as nervous customers confront dealers across the country about faulty gas pedal systems.
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Embracing the spirit that less is more, Stone & Youngberg has narrowed its research universe on California community banks to 65 banks from 75, but expanded coverage of Bay Area banks.
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Commercial development is dead. New retail construction is not even on the horizon. And San Francisco may not see dirt move on another new hotel for five years. But for all the grim news, the Bay Area construction industry is starting to see cause for hope.
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In a sign that businesses might be a bit more optimistic about the economy, office condos are selling again at the Beacon Square Professional Campus in Boca Raton.
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Wells Fargo Bank granted a $26 million mortgage covering the 218-unit 4 Forty Flagler Village apartment complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale in late December.
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The Albany CPA firm BST LLC needs 120 computers.
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George Levin, the biggest investor and feeder for Scott W. Rothstein’s Ponzi scheme, is being pursued for millions of dollars in unpaid loans.
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Next month, Carl Restivo and Rick Stickles will bring their stuffed monsters to the Toy Fair, a major industry trade show in New York City.
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Miami Beach-based LNR Property Corp. was one of the early pioneers of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), but now it is struggling with the most risky part of those securities. (LEN)
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Homestead-based 1st National Bank of South Florida has filed an application with regulators that may allow it to it raise up to $12 million and hand its control over to two shareholders.
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South Florida’s black business leaders are not only an untapped resource for many local companies and civic groups in general, but also among themselves. Jerome Hutchinson Jr. hopes to change that.
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Developers have until Feb. 15 to take advantage of nearly $400 million in low-interest financing still available from the federal stimulus act to help get private projects off the ground.
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First Southern Bank seeks $40M from mutual fund investors While its proposal last year to raise $450 million from private equity firms hasn’t delivered, Boca Raton-based First Southern Bank might get a nice consolation prize: a $40.4 million investment from a group of mutual funds. (BEN)
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In 37,000 D.C. households, income arrives via a check-cashing outlet, prepaid debit card or wad of cash.
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Broker Mark Larsen was certain Network Solutions LLC would move out of its digs in Presidents Park One in Herndon.
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