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According to a recent survey by the Wisconsin Bankers Association, most bank CEOs in the state believe that commercial loan demand will remain flat for at least the first half of 2010.

Andy Nunemaker, president of Milwaukee-based EMSystems LLC, says there are two things every company can and should take advantage of in an economic downturn: search for opportunities and upgrade the talent in the company's workforce.

By expanding its distribution, adding dealers and offering new products, Waukesha-based Generac Power Systems Inc. was able to grow its sales during the first nine months of 2009.

The United States lost roughly 7.3 million jobs during the Great Recession, with unemployment hovering around 10 percent through December of 2009.

Milwaukee-area businesses see economic recovery in 2010, according to a Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).

Editor's note: As part of the coverage in the Economic Trends special report, BizTimes Milwaukee asked Julia Taylor,...

Largely because of some recently-released economic reports, we have bumped up our real GDP (Gross Domestic Product) forecast significantly for Q4:2009 and much less so for all of 2010.

The three most important factors that drive the stock market turned bullish on balance in July and remain so now. The strategic investment implication is that investors should set their portfolio allocations to common stocks to their maximum comfort levels.

Considering that 2009 was a nightmare for most southeastern Wisconsin companies, you wouldn't know it by the performance of the stocks of the publicly traded corporations in the region.

Having served as an economist for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Michael Knetter knows a thing or...