While it is generally advisable to take all good news with a grain of salt on the economic front, it's hard not to return to optimism when there is so much of it at once.

In the past couple of months we've had two big airlines provide new service to Maui and Oahu, an increase in the number of visitors to Hawaii, an increase in home sales on a national level, and statistics reporting that Honolulu unemployment is on the decline. Now it looks like Hawaii stocks are on the rise.

As of Friday, September 4th, Hawaii stocks were mostly up at closing. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics had just reported that the pace of national job losses had slowed and Wall Street's numbers began to rise.

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