Cong candidate's plea to be heard today

The high court will on Friday take up the petition filed by one Sushma Rajagopal Reddy, Congress candidate for the March 28 BBMP poll, challenging the rejection of her nomination from Begur (ward 192).

Siuslaw Financial Group (SFGP) is quoted on the NASDAQ over-the-counter bulletinboard. Its stock closed yesterday at $10.50 and has a 52-week price range of$8.15-16.00. * Sees Q3 revenue $80 mln-82 mln vs est $74.79 mln Stocks  |  Japan * Sees Q3 loss/shr $0.12-$0.13, excluding items * Q2 revenue $69 mln vs est. Siuslaw reported $280.6 million in total assets, deposits of $233.8 million andloans of $219.0 million on June 30, 2009. The Board of Directors declared a $0.10 share quarterly dividend to commonshareholders and $0.105 per share to preferred shareholders of record on July29, 2009, payable on or before August 5, 2009.

Banker magazine in their June 2009 edition rated Siuslaw #35 basedon a three-year average return on equity as of December 31, 2008, among the top200 publicly traded community banks and thrifts in the nation with less than $2billion in assets. Despite the allocation for future loan losses, the reported after tax net incomerepresented a return on shareholder equity (ROE) of 13.29% and return on averageassets (ROA) at 1.38% is substantially above industry norms As a matter ofrecord, U.S. Siuslaw did not allocate any reservefor future loan losses during the same period in 2008. In view of the rising unemployment rate (Oregon had the third-highestunemployment rate in the nation, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor) inJune 2009, Siuslaw increased reserve for loan losses by $650,000 during thefirst half of 2009.