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Gaylen Young  TV Anchor and longtime Business Reporter Gaylen Young says it's important to continue to report on local businesses as our economy continues to be so volatile.

  "With so many new businesses starting each year and so many others expanding in the greater Bakersfield, Kern County area of California, it's important to highlight many of those local businesses, so as they remain strong the community will remain strong" explains Young.

  Gaylen Young is Executive Director of Bakersfield Business News; Business Anchor for KBAK-TV 29; and a Columnist for Kern Business Magazine.

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Renewable Energy
Thursday, 20 November 2008

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Auto Bailout Impact
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Impact of an Auto Bailout

 

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Mortgage Options
Saturday, 15 November 2008

What Mortgage Options Do You Have?

 

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Manure to Electricity at New BioGas Facility

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Traditional Thanksgiving Meal Costs More

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CSU Cuts Student Enrollment

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Downward Spiral for Gas Continues

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Most Homes Selling for a Loss in Bakersfield

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Valley Plaza Parent Company Near Bankruptcy

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Decline Expected in Holiday Hiring

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Pacific Ethanol Progress

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KBAK-TV Helps Fisher Bottom Line Improve

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Diesel and Gasoline Production Up

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Stocks Update
Oil and Gas Prices

West Texas Int:

$53.62 $ .77

(*Record: 145.29  7/3/08)

Midway-Sunset:  

$39.65 $ .85

(*Record: 131.15  7/3/08) 

Natural Gas:        

$6.64 $ .17

Gasoline:

BFL: $2.29 $ .04 Low $1.97

(*Record: $4.59  6/24/08) 

CA: $2.27; US: $2.02

Commodities

Gold:   $736.80 $ .80

Silver: $ 9.03 $  .28

10 Yr Bnd: 3.13% .21

Interest Rates

Interest Rates @ a Glance

    0.50%  10/29/08

Fed Funds Rate:   1.00%

Discount Rate:     1.25%

Prime Rate:         4.00% 

Weekly Mortgage Rates

30 Yr Fixed6.04% was 6.46%

15 Yr Fixed:  5.72% was 6.14%

5/1 ARM:      6.06% was 5.16% 

Jobs @ a Glance

Unemployment Numbers

      Sep 08    Aug 08  Sep 07

Kern   9.3%     9.5%     9.9%

CA      7.7%     7.7%     5.6%

U.S.    6.1%     6.0%     4.6%

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  • S&P dives to lowest level since 1997 (Reuters)

    A trader watches a trade monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)Reuters - Stocks plunged yet again on Thursday, as a frantic flight from risk prompted by investors' deepening economic fears drove the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index to its lowest level since 1997 -- completing the erasure of more than a decade of stock market gains.


  • Democrats demand U.S. Big 3 offer survival plan (Reuters)

    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)(R) and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) hold a news conference to discuss proposed automobile bailout legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 20, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)Reuters - Democratic congressional leaders, seeking to salvage a bailout of the Big Three automakers, demanded executives provide a business survival plan in exchange for their support of up to $25 billion in loans.


  • Citigroup eyes options including merger (Reuters)

    Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in a file photo. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)Reuters - Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest individual investor.


  • Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac suspend some foreclosures (Reuters)

    The headquarters of mortgage lender Freddie Mac is seen in Mclean, Virginia, near Washington in this September 8, 2008 file photo. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two biggest U.S. home loan finance companies, on Thursday said they would suspend foreclosures of occupied homes until early 2009, as the government moves to stem the tide of home losses plaguing the economy.


  • Fed's Bullard: U.S. spending slump to sap 2009 growth (Reuters)
    Reuters - St Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Thursday that financial market turmoil has collapsed U.S. consumer confidence and this would weigh on growth well into next year.
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