The DFPI regulates a variety of financial services, products and professionals and provides protection to consumers and services to businesses engaged in financial transactions.
Business and Company Information
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Business and Company Information
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Banking
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Additional Resources
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Provides comprehensive statistics on the banking, investment, and insurance industries. The Economic Census also offers historical data
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Provides comprehensive statistics on the real estate, rental and leasing industries. The Economic Census also offers historical data.
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Includes banking news, consumer information, and banking laws and regulation.
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Includes publications, reports as well as statistics issued by the International Monetary Fund.
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The Treasury Department offers links to many banking and money related agencies, such as:
Bureau of the Fiscal Service (consolidation of the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt)
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (Office of Thrift Supervision now merged here)
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Offers publications, proceedings and programs as well as statistics issued by the World Bank.
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Federal Reserve Banks
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Contains archive of approximately previous 6 months releases as well as current releases. Includes access to FRB Statistical weekly releases H.3; H.4.1; H6, H.8 H.10 and H.15; Monthly releases G.5 G.17 G.19; and Quarterly release Z.1. Includes the Beige Book.
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Offers Commercial paper rates and other banking statistics on a timely basis.
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FRB St. Louis operates FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a site which includes economic research papers and other FRB indexes, statistics and series.
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Foreign Exchange Rates
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Yahoo! currency converter
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Provides monthly exchange rates for selected currencies, issued by Federal Reserve Board.
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Provides weekly exchange rates for selected currencies, issued by Federal Reserve Board.
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Currency exchange rates for 164 different currencies from January 1, 1990 through previous market day.
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Interest Rates
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Offers interest rates, mortgage rates, news and other information including consumer tips.
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Issued weekly by Federal Reserve Board. Shows daily rates for interest/yields on commercial paper, banker's acceptances, CD's, prime rate, US government securities (treasury bills, secondary market, etc.) and corporate bonds.
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Monetary Conversion
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Calculates any year from 1913 to the present. For past years, the average Consumer Price Index for that calendar year is used and for the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.
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Adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index from 1800 to present.
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Answers questions of relative value, comparing purchasing power (for U.S. Dollar back to 1665), exchange rates, and other variables between past and today.
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Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this cost of living calculator allows you to compare up to four cities in determining how much income you need to maintain your current standard of living in other cities.
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Compare the salaries and salary ranges for positions and in different locations in the United States.
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Companies
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International Companies
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Business-to-business directory covering 2.6 million companies, primarily in European countries.
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Find industrial product and company information from around the world. Thomas Global Register is now hosted on the Michigan State University globalEDGE website.
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Covers over 5 million companies in 60 countries.
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Private Companies
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Searchable list of active businesses listed on file with the City Los Angeles Office of Finance.
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Online directory of industrial and manufacturing products and services searchable by company, product, or service.
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Includes businesses with detailed street location map.
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Formerly known as Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Includes manufacturers and suppliers in US and in Canada. Searchable by product, company, and brand name.
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Public Companies
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Provides links to annual reports of many publicly held companies. Includes also annual reports of selected nonprofit organizations.
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This official Securities and Exchanges Commission site offers annual reports and 10-K statements of all publicly held companies.
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Industry & Economy
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Economic Indicators
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Offers statistics of business and personal bankruptcy filings. Includes annual and quarterly statistics for US and major metropolitan statistical areas.
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The report, published by by Federal Reserve Board, provides summary of economic conditions by federal reserve district. Includes major economic indicators, and interviews with key businessmen, economists, market experts, and other sources. Archives of past years are also available.
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Includes many important national, international, and regional economic indicators. Links to many BEA's publications, including Survey of Current Business.
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Provides current statistics of household income, poverty and other economic indicators.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics' official site on consumer price index
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Offers instant calculation of inflation, based on consumer price index, from 1800 to 1997
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NAICS is the current U.S. standard for classifying business establishments adopted in 1997 to replace the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. It was developed jointly with Mexico and Canada to allow for a high level of comparability in business statistics among the North American countries.
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Identifies Standard Industrial Classification codes for industry.
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General Industry Statistics
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Provides business statistics by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code and by county. Beginning in 1998, data are tabulated by industry as in the North American Industry Classification System: United States, 1997 (NAICS). Data for 1997 and years are based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System.
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The Economic Census is the official five-year measure of businesses in the United States providing comprehensive statistics at the national, state, and local levels. It serves as the benchmark for current economic activity, such as the Gross Domestic Product and Producer Price Index.
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Employment and industry data for county and regional areas.
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Statistics By Industry
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Agriculture
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Offers agricultural statistics by geographic areas.
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Includes commodities, futures and options, cooperative extension reports, statistics, trade agreements.
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News, general information, and opportunities with the USDA
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Construction
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Provides many reports on the construction industry published by the Census Bureau.
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Manufacturing
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The data released in the 2017 Economic Census for Manufacturing
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Provides statistical data on commodity production and shipments for approximately 5000 products, accounting for more than 1/3 of all U.S. manufacturing.
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Mining and Mineral Industries
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Offers additional statistics of minerals in California.
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California Department of Conservation's site which offers oil and gas statistics in California.
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Retail and Wholesale Industries
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Service Industries
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Includes links to all the Censuses that involve service industries, eg. Census of Service Industries, Census of Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, Census of Transportation, Communications, and Utilities, Truck Inventory and Use Survey, Commodity Flow Survey, Motor Freight Transportation and Warehousing Survey, and Annual Survey of Communication Services.
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Tourism Industries
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Vital visitor statistics & research articles on California tourism industry.
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Transportation Industries
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Includes statistics of airline industry
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Includes Transportation Statistics Annual Report, American Travel Survey and other travel and transportation related statistics.
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Utilities
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The home page of FCC offers information on auctions, consumer information, rules and regulation, and many other useful information.
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World Economic Indicators
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The United Nations Statistics Division collects statistics on economic characteristics of the population from national statistical offices around the world and disseminates them in tabular form in special issues of the United Nations Demographic Yearbook. These official statistics provided by countries are derived from population censuses.
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Provides basic housing statistics of member countries of United Nations.
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International Trade
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Country Specific: Regulations & Practices
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Summarize all information you need to know in order to trade with a specific country. Includes each country's demographics, political environment, economic outlook and trends, trade regulations and standards, business travel overview, etc.
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Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University. This site leads to research, data, profiles, and tools for international business and trade information by country, by region, by trade bloc, by industry, etc.
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More than 100 Guides to doing business for Countries, States or Provinces compiled by Lex Mundi, an association of independent law firms.
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Provides access to product suppliers and service providers from Hong Kong and China. Includes information on trade leads, tradeshows, and practical tips for doing business in Hong Kong and in China.
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Lists manufacturers in Taiwan.
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International Trade Statistics
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From U.S. Census Bureau website, official source for U.S. import or export statistics, information on export regulations, commodity classifications, and other trade-related topics.
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Reports and sources of information for trade data and analysis, import/export statistics, industries.
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Supporting Services
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California Governor's Office of Business & Economic Development website with links to information on the California State Trade and Export Promotion (STEP) Program, export assistance, trade offices in Mexico and China, foreign direct investment, etc.
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Trade professionals at the U.S. Commercial Service, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, developed these Export Solutions to help U.S. exporters create successful international sales strategies. Learn about all aspects of exporting and world markets through these solutions, or take advantage of local assistance or virtual services.
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Assists in export financing of US goods and services by offering direct and intermediary loans to foreign buyers of US exports, working capital and loan guarantees.
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The daily journal of trade logistics. The new JOC Week paper edition is located at the Reference Desk in the Business & Economics Department in the Central Library.
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The SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives Association), is made up of retired, professional business managers from all disciplines of business and government. They volunteer their time to provide free management and business counseling and workshops.
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Official site offers information on export regulations and related information on exporting from US.
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Provides assistance in researching foreign markets, making business contacts overseas, and promoting products abroad.
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Provides general information about custom regulations.
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Trade Leads and Suppliers
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Trade leads and matchmaker services for companies doing business with former Soviet states.
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Contract opportunities are procurement notices from federal contracting offices. Anyone interested in doing business with the government can use this system to search opportunities. Opportunities include pre-solicitation notices, solicitation notices, award notices, and sole source notices.
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Includes product suppliers and manufacturers in many Asian countries.
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SBA’s Office of International Trade can help any small business that faces barriers in accessing international markets.
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Provides trade leads and international credit reports.
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Provides international trade leads from World Trade Center.
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Investment
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Bonds, Commodities and Mutual Funds
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Offers rating and financial analysis of mutual funds as well as stocks.
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Offers basic information on investing in bonds and how to read bond prices in the daily newspapers.
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The Commodity Markets Outlook is published in the third week of January, April, July, and October. Pink Sheets are released on the third business day of the month
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Investment Information & Stock Analysis
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This site gives all sorts of help to the investor. Pages include a glossary of investment terms, building an investment plan from scratch, basic investment principles, techniques for picking stocks, and others.
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NASDAQ website offer listings and links to more data for latest, forthcoming, reently-filed, and recently-withrdrawn IPOs.
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Provides stock quotes, company news, and opinions on publicly traded companies. Graphs and charts are available for most companies. A humorous and insightful approach to investing.
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Provides comprehensive investment assistance and financial information about publicly held companies.
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Government site offers introduction to investments, links to calculators and tools for researching investments and investment advisers, and fraud protection advice.
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Quick Quotes and Charts
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Provides stock quotes, charts and links to stocks, mutual funds and futures traded in all major exchanges. Historical information included. Market reports on each exchange included.
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Provides opening, closing, high, low, volume information, including splits and dividends and foreign currency exchange rates. Historical information downloadable in spreadsheet format. Covers bonds, mutual funds as well as EFTs [Exchange Traded Funds] and indices. Market reports available.
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Stock and Commodity Exchanges
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The CME group is made up of four exchanges: Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange and The Commodity Exchange. Includes news, consumer information (how to choose a broker), and trading information.
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Home page for the NASDQ network.
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NYSE's Home Page "is designed as an educational tool for investors, students and teachers. It provides links to a rich diversity of information."
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Labor & Employment
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Employment and Labor Market Statistics
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Maintained by California Employment Development Department, this site offers labor market statistics by industry or occupation, and by county.
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This site has current news releases in a number of areas of interest to labor. It has employment and unemployment, prices and living conditions, productivity and technology, employment projections, and regional news releases.
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Job listings - See Jobs, Career, & Resume Builders
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Labor Laws & Unions
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Provides links to other sites which cover ADA information, technical assistance, and information hot lines.
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Maintained by the California State Legislature. This site offers links to the California Codes.
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Maintained by a law firm, this site provides comprehensive coverage and links to documents and information relating to labor and employment laws.
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Full text of NLRB decisions.
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Salaries and Wages
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Provides links and descriptions to 150 salary surveys.
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Compare the salaries and salary ranges for positions and in different locations in the United States
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Provides information on the minimum wage, Family and Medical Leave Act, and employee rights.
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Real Estate
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Finding a Home
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Includes listings for homes available for sale, and links to other useful information relating to home buying.
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General Resources
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This site provides information on industry data and expenditure analysis of commercial real estate.
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This site provides consumer and industry information for California real estate industry. Its Economics page offers current economic trends and forecast.
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Maintained by Microsoft, this site offers a one-stop shopping service for home hunters. Links to neighborhood information, price comparison, mortgage calculations, and property listing.
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Includes home listing, directory of realtors, and links to other useful resources in home buying.
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Government Housing Agencies
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Offers links to consumer information on housing assistance.
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Mortgage
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Offers links to everything you need to know about securing a mortgage.
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Small Business
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Business Plans
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Offers hands-on guidance to writing business plans. Includes free plan examples.
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Includes a step by step tutorial on how to write a business plan.
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General Resources
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New business portal for the City of Los Angeles, launched September 2016 replacing the old Los Angeles Works portal. Provides information to plan, start, manage, and grow a business. Features a Start Up Guide that maps out registering a new business and making it compliant, covering city registration, business name, seller’s permit and use taxes, and Employee Identification Number. Provides listings and links to various City Departments, BusinessSource Centers, and other support organizations and programs serving businesses.
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Information on franchising and buying an existing business.
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Free, easy-to-access online articles on 650 management topics to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations (profit or nonprofit). Each topic lists recommended books and related library topics. Automated translator option in upper left hand corner.
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For cities and communities within the County of Los Angeles, find listings of business properties and locations for sale and lease, directories of businesses along with demographics, economic and consumer data. Hosted by the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office, Economic Development Program.
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For communities and neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles, find listings of business properties and locations for sale and lease, directories of businesses along with demographics, economic and consumer data. Hosted by the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.
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The Small Business Office of Advocacy focuses on regulatory issues, small-business research and state regulatory activity.
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Start-Up Information
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New business portal for the City of Los Angeles, launched September 2016 replacing the old Los Angeles Works portal. Provides information to plan, start, manage, and grow a business. Features a Start Up Guide that maps out registering a new business and making it compliant, covering city registration, business name, seller’s permit and use taxes, and Employee Identification Number. Provides listings and links to various City Departments, BusinessSource Centers, and other support organizations and programs serving businesses.
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Franchise resource information from the Small Business Administration.
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Provides businesses with information on permits and other requirements of California agencies at all levels of government, and links. Searchable by type of business and location.
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Includes information tabs on business activities including Startups, Marketing, Franchises, etc.
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Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder offers information on fictitious business names, also known as "Doing Business As" or DBA. This site explains how to file and offers options for searching names in use in Los Angeles County.
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Home-based business blog with how to start one, benefits of a home-based business, developing a business plan and legal requirements. Additional resources provided for entrepreneurs, small and home-based businesses.
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Supporting Organization
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Free service provided by the City of Los Angeles Minority Business Opportunity Committee (MBOC) and the Los Angeles Opportunities & Procurement Services. Contract opportunities, jobs, and permits & licenses information are highlighted.
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Tools and guidance needed to become successful.
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Basic steps including applying for an Employer Identification Number (EIN), selecting a business structure, paying employee and business taxes.
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Offers information, referrals, and one-on-one professional business counseling, and regular workshops to small business owners.
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Local chapter offering mentoring, workshops and networking events for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Check library events calendar for mentors available in the Los Angeles Public Library.
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The official home page of Small Business Administration offers assistance, regulatory information, and statistics relating to small businesses.
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Unclaimed Property
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Provides access to the state agencies in all states, territory, or province charged with the responsibility of collecting and reuniting lost owners with their unclaimed property.
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