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Ventura County businesses see bright side, could benefit from exports

By   /  Thursday, November 12th, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Ventura County businesses see bright side, could benefit from exports

Ventura County business owners are more optimistic than their tri-county counterparts, economists told a gathering in Camarillo on Nov. 12. Some 31 percent of Ventura County business owners see improvement in the next three months, versus 10 percent of business owners in San Luis Obispo County and just 6.5 percent in Santa Barbara County. That’s Read More →

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Forecasters:

By   /  Friday, November 6th, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Forecasters:

The San Luis Obispo County economy won’t get much worse this year and will likely start improving next year. But the scope of that recovery will depend on decisions coming down from Washington, D.C., and Sacramento. That was the message delivered Nov. 6 to nearly 500 attendees at a 2010 economic outlook conference in San Read More →

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Former DA lands at Ventura law office

By   /  Wednesday, November 4th, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Former DA lands at Ventura law office

Michael Bradbury, the former longtime Ventura County District Attorney who made headlines busting the Hells Angels, has joined Ventura-based law office Anderson Kill Wood & Bender, the firm said in a release Nov. 4. Anderson Kill Wood & Bender specializes in representing companies against their insurers to recover money when insurers deny claims. But the Read More →

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Pacific Capital loses $40.7M in third quarter

By   /  Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Pacific Capital loses $40.7M in third quarter

Santa Barbara-based Pacific Capital Bancorp turned in a $40.7 million loss in the third quarter driven by another round of setting aside cash to deal with soured real estate loans. At 87 cents per share, the loss was slightly larger than the 80-cent loss expected by three analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial Network. The results Read More →

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Nasdaq may boot area bank

By   /  Monday, November 2nd, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Nasdaq may boot area bank

The parent of Solvang-based Los Padres Bank, the third-largest banking firm in the Tri-Counties with 13 branches, faces potential removal from the Nasdaq exchange if the firm doesn’t boost its stock price. Harrington West Financial Group, a $1.1 billion-asset firm and the holding company for Los Padres, said in a release Nov. 2 that Nasdaq Read More →

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States sue Amgen, alleging drug kickback scheme

By   /  Friday, October 30th, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on States sue Amgen, alleging drug kickback scheme

Thousand Oaks-based Amgen faces a lawsuit from New York, California and 13 other states alleging that the company took illegal kickbacks for Aranesp, one of the biotech firm’s top-selling kidney drugs. The case, filed Oct. 29 in federal court and being led by New York, accuses Amgen, a purchasing group and a wholesale provider of Read More →

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Dole shares fall after IPO

By   /  Friday, October 23rd, 2009  /  Latest news  /  Comments Off on Dole shares fall after IPO

Produce giant Dole Food Co.’s initial public offering has borne less fruit than the company hoped. The Westlake Village firm’s shares fell Oct. 23 after hitting the market at a lower-than-expected price, a possible sign that investors feel billionaire majority owner David Murdock overreached in tapping the public markets to pay off some of his Read More →

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