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Banking veteran Keith Costello cofounded Locality Bank, where he serves as president and CEO, to champion for south Florida small businesses financially affected by the pandemic. After looking at the consolidation in our market, we concluded that the lack of community banks was the reason.”. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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Market Commentary: Week of June 29, 2020

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Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California dominated the headlines, as it certainly appears that the so-called “First Wave” of the virus has not ended yet. COVID-19 has pounced on some of our largest population centers that began relatively aggressive economic re-opening campaigns in mid to late May.

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Market Commentary: Week of July 13, 2020

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Nationwide, daily COVID cases rose to 60,000 per day with Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California leading the way. If this looks familiar to last week’s market summary… it is! We just replaced “holiday-shortened week” and instead of 50,000 COVID cases a day, we are now at 60,000.

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Market Commentary: Week of June 22, 2020

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Risk assets just seemed to want to go up, more or less ignoring the rising COVID hospitalization numbers in Florida, Texas, and Arizona to focus more on talk of a new infrastructure package from the White House and more enactment from the Fed’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF).

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Market Commentary: Week of July 6, 2020

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Nationwide, daily COVID cases rose to 50,000 per day with Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California leading the way. What Happened: Despite worsening COVID-19 news, stocks managed to explode higher for the holiday-shortened week with the NASDAQ hitting another all-time high on Thursday.

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On-Demand Home Services Startup Homee Raises $15M

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Tampa, Florida-based startup Homee raised $15 million in series B funding led by Forté Ventures, VentureBeat reported on Tuesday (Aug. Funds also came from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Active Capital Partners, Florida Funders, Deepwork Capital and Engage.

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Simon Property Group, Wheels Up Get In On The SPAC Action

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Thus far, the Journal said, citing University of Florida Professor Jay Ritter, SPACs have logged 6 percent gains on the first day of trading so far this year, which outpaces the 1.6 capital markets work hold a significant advantage.” percent average gain logged in trading debuts last year.

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