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San Jose ranked among best U.S. retail markets
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, May 10, 2006
San Jose placed 10th on a list of the top markets to watch in retail real estate Wednesday, behind No. 1 Los Angeles and No. 7 San Francisco/Oakland. In order behind LA, commercial brokerage Sperry Van Ness placed Orlando, Fla.; the Seattle area; West Palm Beach/Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; San Diego; Phoenix; San Francisco/Oakland; Austin, Texas; Denver; and San Jose. MORE

Bay Area executives see brighter future; Almost half plan to add employees over next 6 months
San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2006
Bay Area executives plan to pick up the pace of hiring over the next six months, the strongest job outlook since the 2001 dot-com bust, according to a survey to be released today. The quarterly confidence survey of the Bay Area Council, a business-sponsored public policy group, found that 43 percent of 512 CEOs and executives polled plan to hire more local workers in the next two quarters. MORE

San Jose is no. 5 in U.S. Asian-owned businesses
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, May 17, 2006
San Jose has the fifth largest number of Asian-owned businesses in the country, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. MORE

Top 100 Bay Area executives by compensation
San Francisco Chronicle, May 21, 2006
Yahoo executives have tens of millions of reasons to scream "Yahoo!" For the second consecutive year, the Sunnyvale Internet firm handed more money to its top executives than any other Bay Area public company, according to The Chronicle's annual survey of executive pay at 200 local companies. MORE

Job market in the Silicon Valley makes slight April gain
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, May 19, 2006
A large number of seasonal jobs in the leisure and hospitality field gave April's job market a boost in the Silicon Valley, according to an employment report released Friday. MORE

Institute rates California a dud on nursing
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, May 9, 2006
A study released Tuesday reveals that the ratio of registered nursing jobs to population in most parts of California is significantly lower than the U.S. average. Compared with the rest of the nation, the Golden State earned a “D” grade from a Berkeley nonprofit working to solve the state’s nursing shortage. MORE

Gas prices easing at historic highs: California drivers still pay more than rest of country
San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2006
California's gasoline prices have finally stopped soaring, but only after rising more in the last month than they did even after Hurricane Katrina last year. MORE

Santa Clara County home price increases, sales declines uneven
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, May 23, 2006
The Santa Clara County housing market is not reacting uniformly to changing economic conditions, including rising interest rates and an improving local jobs market, a new survey from residential real estate brokerage Prudential California Realty reveals. MORE

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