April 30, 2024

Tuesday's Daily Pulse

What you need to know about Florida today

| 8/18/2015

› Gas prices drop in Jacksonville, but soar in Midwest
Gas prices have continued dropping in Jacksonville, but other parts of the country have seen huge increases in the past week.

› South Florida residential loans up 10%
The average dollar amount per residential loan in South Florida was up 10 percent year-over-year in the second quarter, and 25 percent quarter-over-quarter.

› New College is striving for state dollars
After Florida's university system withheld 5 percent of New College's funding and tasked it with creating a performance improvement plan in 2014, the school decided to focus on two goals: connect undergraduates to work opportunities and increase student retention and graduation.

› Make your business a destination… for tourists!
If your business is focussed only on its local market, your success is based upon the size of that potential market, or “pie,” and the percentage of the pie, or the market share, that you are able to attract to your business.

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