Tuesday's Daily Pulse

› Column: Export-Import Bank means jobs, success for Florida businesses [Orlando Sentinel]
If Congress is serious about creating jobs, it should do everything it can to help small businesses, which create roughly two-thirds of all new jobs. This is particularly true for Florida, which is a small-business state.

› Southwest Florida's sales outpace state's, point to brighter economy [Sarasota Herald-Tribune]
The business outlook continues to brighten for merchants in Southwest Florida. Shoppers spent more in February on everything from clothes to electronics and new cars -- accelerating the region's ongoing economic recovery, according to newly released data.

› Treasure Hunters' Undersea Gold Rush Is Threatened by U.S. Navy [Businessweek]
In just one dive on a 19th-century shipwreck, Odyssey Marine Exploration managed to recover gold ingots and coins worth more than $1 million from the bottom of the Atlantic. The truth is, such golden opportunities may be about to dry up.

› T. Rowe Price scraps plan to bring 1,600 jobs to Pasco County [Tampa Bay Times]
Financial giant T. Rowe Price, which cut a historic deal with county officials in 2009 to bring 1,600 jobs to Pasco County, is scrapping plans to build a campus there.

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