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Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:PPBI), the holding company of Pacific Premier Bank, and Heritage Oaks Bancorp (NASDAQ:HEOP) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pacific Premier will acquire Heritage Oaks

Many Americans are receiving holiday bonuses in 2016, and Andrew Crowell, Vice Chairman of the Individual Investor Group of D.A. Davidson, suggests that you don’t need to save or spend all of that extra cash. U.S. News & World Report offers “6 Ways to Make the Most of Your Holiday Bonus,” by Maryalene LaPonsie, to help you understand the best ways to use the money.Read the full article here.

D.A. Davidson & Co., a full-service investment firm with a nationwide investment banking practice, served as exclusive financial advisor to CivilSource, Inc., one of the most active providers of civil engineering consulting services to Southern California municipalities, in its sale to NV5 Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVEE), a provider of professional and technical engineering and consulting solutions to public and private sector clients nationwide.

D.A. Davidson & Co., a full-service investment firm with a nationwide investment banking practice, served as exclusive financial advisor to Hawk Ridge Systems related to its recapitalization by Main Street Capital Corporation and management.

U.S. government bond yields and prices have been on a roller-coaster ride in recent weeks. In a Wall Street Journal titled “U.S. Government Bonds Strengthen After Earlier Selloff,” Mary Ann Hurley, fixed income trader with D.A. Davidson, discusses the ways that investor expectations may have driven the strong fluctuations.Wall Street Journal subscribers can read the full article here.

The so-called “athleisure” market seems to remain strong, even though some equity research analysts have labeled the idea as a fad — and somewhere in the middle of the discussion is Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU). The views of the stock by Andrew Burns, D.A. Davidson senior equity analyst, are discussed in “Optimism & Pessimism for Lululemon (LULU),” an Investopedia article by Dan Moskovitz.Read the full article here.

Employee-owned D.A. Davidson Companies has earned the first-ever Washington Achieve Award in recognition of the company’s high-quality education and workforce development programs. The company’s CEO accepted the award from the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business association, at its Evening of Excellence on Wednesday.This marks the first year that the AWB has honored a company with the award, which “recognizes a business that has exc...

Sales for footwear and sports apparel retailer Nike continue to be strong, but more questions are arising about what the company will do to ensure its future results keep up the momentum. D.A. Davidson Senior Research Analyst Andrew Burns discusses what might be ahead for the company in “Nike still in the lead, but losing ground to Adidas, Under Armour,” an article for The Oregonian by Jeff Manning.Read the full article here.

D.A. Davidson has been named a finalist for the Association of Washington Business’s (AWB) Washington Achieve Award. This award recognizes a “business that has excelled in creating, implementing or supporting a high-caliber education and/or workforce development system aligned with closing the employment gap.”In an industry notoriously difficult to enter, D.A. Davidson continues to build upon its history of providing students, young professionals and “second career”...

Retail sales could mark their largest increase since the recession, with a few notable companies leading the way.