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Small Business Sentiment Dips Amid Borrowing and Hiring Troubles
SMBs // April 11, 2023

America’s small business owners are feeling fairly pessimistic about the future. The latest edition of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index fell last month to 90.1, the agency announced Tuesday (April 11), as business owners contended with inflation, trouble borrowing,...

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Fed Survey: Businesses Expect Sales Growth to Slow

October 25, 2023
American businesses are less sure about future sales than they were before the pandemic. That’s according to the latest edition of the Survey of Business Uncertainty, released Wednesday (Oct. 25) by the Atlanta Federal Reserve, Stanford University and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. According to the survey, businesses’ sales and growth expectations “continue to edge lower.” “Expected […]

Small Business Sentiment Dips Amid Borrowing and Hiring Troubles

April 11, 2023
America’s small business owners are feeling fairly pessimistic about the future. The latest edition of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) Small Business Optimism Index fell last month to...