L.A. County econowatch.

L.A. COUNTY
ECONOWATCH

GENERAL
INDICATORS

                                              Latest       Previous
                                               month          month

Employment (000's) (June) (1)#               4,630.2#       4,656.6#
Unemployment (000's) (June) (1)#               226.2#         237.8#
Help-wanted ads index (June)#                    8#             7#
Jobless-to-job ad ratio (June) (2)#             28.3#          31.1#
Film Production Days (2nd qtr.)#             7,853#         9,278#

Bankruptcies#
Chapter 7 (June)#                              519#           534#
Chapter 11 (June)#                               9#            10#
Exports (mils.) (May)#                      $7,519.5#      $7,292.6#
Imports (mils.) (May)#                     $19,412.1#     $18,887.2#

                                     % [+ or -] from
                                            previous           Year
                                               month            ago

Employment (000's) (June) (1)#                 -0.6%#        4,524.7#
Unemployment (000's) (June) (1)#               -4.9%#          255.6#
Help-wanted ads index (June)#                  14.3%#           14#
Jobless-to-job ad ratio (June) (2)#            -9.0%#           18.3#
Film Production Days (2nd qtr.)#              -15.4%#        8,426#

Bankruptcies#
Chapter 7 (June)#                              -2.8%#        2,320#
Chapter 11 (June)#                            -10.0%#            9#
Exports (mils.) (May)#                          3.1%#       $6,667.6#
Imports (mils.) (May)#                         +2.8&#      $17,229.8#

                                     % [+ or -] from
                                            year ago

Employment (000's) (June) (1)#                  2.3%#
Unemployment (000's) (June) (1)#              -11.5%#
Help-wanted ads index (June)#                 -42.9%#
Jobless-to-job ad ratio (June) (2)#           +54.6%#
Film Production Days (2nd qtr.)#               -6.8%#

Bankruptcies#
Chapter 7 (June)#                             -77.6%#
Chapter 11 (June)#                              0.0%#
Exports (mils.) (May)#                        +12.8%#
Imports (mils.) (May)#                        +12.7%#

FOOTNOTES

(1.) For Bob Hope Airport.

(2.) Not seasonally adjusted.

(3.) Thousands of jobless to index point of job ads.

(4.) Through Los Angeles Customs District.

N/A--Not Applicable.

BOLDFACE INDICATES UPDATED FIGURES

Sources: Central District of Calif., (bankruptcies); Economic
Development Corporation, Los Angeles (business failures, exports,
imports); Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (Burbank
passenger traffic and air cargo); Axicom/DataQuick Information Systems
Inc., La Jolla (construction lending, property lending, refinance
lending; Grubb & Ellis (office and industrial vacancy rates); PKF
Consulting (hotel occupancy, room rate), RealFacts (apartment
vacancies), Southland Regional Association of Realtors (home
resales).

Note: Updated figures indicated with #.