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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
National Mercantile Bancorp: The Los Angeles parent of Mercantile National Bank lost $2.7 million in the fourth quarter, contrasted with a $373,000 profit in the year-earlier period. The bank, whose investors include a number of Hollywood stars and executives, set aside $6.5 million in the fourth quarter for possible loan losses, many of them real-estate related. For all of 1990, the bank lost $1.8 million, contrasted with a profit of $3 million in 1989.
