Small Business Confidence Rises in April
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported an increase of 2.6 points in its small business optimism index, up from 89.5 in March to 92.1 in April. ...Read Full Story »
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Small Business Confidence Index Falls for First Time in Four Months
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported a decline of 1.3 points in its small business optimism index, from 90.8 in February to 89.5 in March. The ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Confidence Struggles Continue
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) this morning reported a rise of 1.9 points in its small business optimism index, from 88.9 in January to 90.8 in February. The ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Outlook Remains Depressed
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported that its Small Business Optimism Index rose a meager 0.5 points in December to 88, only slightly better than the November reading ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Optimism Plummets — Gallup
The Wells Fargo/Gallup small business index dropped from a July reading of 17 to a November score of -11, Gallup reported this morning. The index surveys small business owners’ ratings ...Read Full Story »
Sales Slow at Privately Held Companies
Sales at privately held U.S. companies are growing faster than the overall growth in the U.S. economy, but the pace of growth has slowed according to the latest data from ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Outlook Improves Slightly
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported that its small business optimism index rose 1.7 points in August to 92.9. The most frequently cited issues for small business owners ...Read Full Story »
Bank Study Says Small Business Confidence “Steady”
The financial condition of US small businesses continue to show signs of improvement according to data from Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF). Hiring is improving as well: Small businesses ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Optimism Index Falls for Second Straight Month
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) reported that its small business optimism index fell 0.2 points in July to 91.2. The most frequently cited issues for small business owners ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Owners’ Optimism Drops — Gallup
The latest Gallup quarterly poll of small business owners shows that optimism has dropped to an index reading of 17 in July, down from 23 in April. A reading above ...Read Full Story »
Debt Weighs on A Third of Small Business Owners
More than a third of small business owners say that their debt burden is either “somewhat” or “very” uncomfortable in the latest Wells Fargo/Gallup small business survey. Of the rest, ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Employment Continues To Leak
The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According ...Read Full Story »
Tax The Rich, But Not Their Businesses
Washington has a problem, or at least the Administration does. It is tempted to allow tax cuts for the rich, those who make more than $250,000 a year, expire. That ...Read Full Story »
The Ten Things The Government Could Do To Cut Unemployment In Half
Unemployment, according to a number of government officials and economists, has become intractable and the August jobless rate hit 9.6% as non-farm payrolls dropped 54,000. That cannot be said about ...Read Full Story »
Small Business Despairs, Despite Rumors Of A Recovery
The government and most economists say that the recession is over. It ended late last year, in fact. Several recent polls of consumers show that the average American believes that ...Read Full Story »
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