Bay Area
California’s Share of U.S. Export Trade Slips to 8% as Real Shipment Value Falls
California shipped $16.735 billion in merchandise abroad in May while the rest of the country surged ahead, dropping the state’s share of national...
Bridgepoint’s $1.39B Kayne Anderson Real Estate Buyout Hands a London Owner One of the California’s Busiest Light-Industrial Buyers
A London-listed private markets firm has agreed to buy Kayne Anderson Real Estate for roughly $1.39 billion, putting a UK owner atop a...
California Clinches Nation’s No. 2 GDP Growth at 3.7% in First Quarter
California’s economy grew at a 3.7 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2026, the second-fastest pace in the country, as a...
West Marine to Shutter Five California Stores in Chapter 11 Restructuring, Cutting Home-State Footprint to 12
West Marine, the boating-supply retailer born in California nearly six decades ago, will close five of its 17 stores in the state as...
Plug-In Solar Bill Advances in Sacramento, Aiming at SoCal’s Nation-Leading Power Bills for Renters
A bipartisan measure to deregulate small, portable solar systems is moving through the Legislature, and nowhere are the stakes higher than in Southern...
Earlytrade Raises $25MM to Deploy Agentic AI Across the Construction Payments Ecosystem
S3 Ventures & Brick & Mortar Ventures lead Series A as Earlytrade posts 7X US revenue growth; Scott Wolfe, founder of Levelset, joins...
California Jobs Engine Stalls in April as Unemployment Holds at 5.3%
The state shed 3,300 nonfarm payroll jobs even as a sixth straight monthly drop in the unemployed pool pointed to a labor market...
California Added 28,700 Jobs in March as Unemployment Eased to 5.3%
State posted strongest start to a calendar year since 2022 as health services led gains while professional and business services pulled back, according...
Healthcare and New Development Prop Up Orange County as Job Growth Stalls Across Southern California
UCLA Anderson Forecast finds the region’s labor market frozen even as gross county product climbs, with housing affordability and AI-driven layoffs reshaping the...
Northern California Carries Essex as Bay Area Tech Demand Outpaces Seattle, Los Angeles in Q1
The West Coast’s largest multifamily REIT beat expectations as cap rate compression and a $62 million stock buyback signaled a private-public valuation gap....
Bed Bath & Boomerang
By Billy the Broker (I just want to stay anonymous) In August 2025, Marcus Lemonis, the executive chairman of Beyond, Inc.—which is to...
Bay Area Swallows Q1 Venture Capital as Seattle and Los Angeles Fall Further Behind
OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI concentrate $221.1 billion in Northern California while Southern California and the Pacific Northwest scrape single-digit billions in a market...
