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thebusinessjournal.com | Gabriel Dillard |Dylan Gonzales
Since 1956, Fig Garden Village has been a fixture at Shaw and Palm avenues in Fresno. Photo contributed published on May 12, 2025 - 1:00 PMWritten by Dylan GonzalesFig Garden Village, one of Fresno’s oldest shopping centers, has been acquired by a pair of commercial real estate companies.
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1 week ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers added a surprising 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Hiring fell slightly from a revised 185,000 in March, but that is above economist projections of 135,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.2%, the Labor Department reported Friday.
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1 week ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Damian J. Troise |Dylan Gonzales
Wall Street extended its gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the stock market’s longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since President Donald Trump escalated his trade war in early April. The rally was spurred by a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market and resurgent hope for a ratcheting down in the U.S. trade showdown with China. The S&P 500 climbed 1.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 1.4%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 1.5%.
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1 week ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The emergency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the team’s access under federal privacy laws.
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1 week ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Gabriel Dillard |Dylan Gonzales
Downtown Fresno SBA district office via interiorintervention.blogspot.com published on May 2, 2025 - 2:48 PMWritten by Dylan GonzalesThe U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is streamlining the national servicing operations for its 7(a) loan program by centralizing intake through its office in Fresno.
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thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly four months after wildfires reduced thousands of Los Angeles-area homes to rubble and ash, some residents are starting to rebuild. In the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, construction workers recently began placing wooden beams to frame a house on a lot where only a charred fireplace remains standing. In the seaside city of Malibu and foothills neighborhood of Altadena, many land parcels where homes once stood are being cleared of debris.
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thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A tax on sugary drinks takes effect Thursday in the beachside community of Santa Cruz, seven years after California banned its cities and counties from implementing local grocery taxes as part of a reluctant deal with the powerful beverage industry. The 2-cent-per-ounce tax, approved by voters in November, is the first in the state since lawmakers approved the 2018 deal.
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1 week ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
CHANNEL ISLANDS, Calif. (AP) — Strands of kelp glow in the dim morning light off California’s Channel Islands as fish and sea lions weave through the golden fronds. It’s a scene of remarkable abundance — the result of more than two decades of protection in one of the state’s oldest marine reserves. But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different future.
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thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales
Derek (left) and David (center) are joining the dairy-free frozen dessert company Frönen in leadership roles. Photos via the Carrs and Frönen published on May 2, 2025 - 10:36 AMWritten by Dylan GonzalesA frozen dessert company could soon become mainstream in the Central Valley. Frönen, a company that makes non-dairy frozen desserts as a healthier alternative to ice cream, has two new members of its private ownership group — Derek and David Carr.
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4 weeks ago | 
thebusinessjournal.com | Dylan Gonzales |Ben Hensley
Photo illustration by Cecilia Lopez | FFB Bank will review its use of independent sales organizations as part of a consent order with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. published on April 16, 2025 - 3:10 PMWritten by Dylan GonzalesOn Jan. 25, Fresno-based FFB Bank entered into an agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) over practices of its profitable merchant services program.
