| NFIB: Small firms less confident last month | By PAULINE CROSS
Posted: 5/10/2011 3:38:23 PM |  Confidence among the nation's small businesses dipped in April, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. The NFIB reported Tuesday that its monthly Small Business Optimism Index dropped 0.7 points in April to a score of 91.2... |
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| Small business conditions improving, Fed Gov says | By THOMAS GRANT
Posted: 5/10/2011 3:36:01 PM |  U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke maintained in a speech Tuesday that small business conditions are improving, despite recent fumbles in the unemployment rate, confidence and consumer spending... |
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| Labor Department: Job creation, unemployment up | By DOUGLAS CHAN
Posted: 5/6/2011 1:01:36 PM |  The Department of Labor reported Friday that the U.S. economy added more jobs than anticipated in April, exceeding gains noted in the previous month, despite a growth in unemployment ... |
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| What Does Marketing Spending Mean for Economic Prospects? | By ANN SILVERSTEIN
Posted: 5/6/2011 12:59:46 PM |  While a recent report from Capital One noted that 62 percent of U.S. small businesses were invested in print advertising campaigns in the first quarter of this year, the jury was out on how such trends are progressing at a state level... |
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| ADP: Private employment continues slow growth in April | By CAROLINE FOSTER
Posted: 5/5/2011 3:51:34 PM | | Nonfarm private sector payrolls grew in April, continuing a 2011 monthly trend of approximately 200,000 new jobs per month, according to Thursday's ADP National Employment Report... |
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| Small firms more optimistic, planning to invest in marketing | By EVELYN BRANDT
Posted: 5/4/2011 3:06:08 PM | | While a number of recent surveys have provided a degree of good news to the U.S. small business sector - including gains in hiring and borrowing - Wednesday's Signs of the Times national survey by FedEx Office found confidence in the sector has significantly improved on a year-over-year scale... |
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| Small Business Lending Picks Up in March | By ANN SILVERSTEIN
Posted: 5/3/2011 12:14:46 PM | | Lending to small businesses was up in March compared to a year ago but down from the previous month, furthering the notion that the credit market is improving at a snail's pace... |
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| Intuit: Small business hiring up in April | By THOMAS GRANT
Posted: 5/2/2011 3:15:03 PM | | Hiring among small businesses increased slightly in April, according to a report released Monday by Intuit, providing further evidence of a gradually improving job market. The report also noted higher wages and hours worked among small business employees... |
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| The economic recovery and the commercial print industry | By JEREMY ARMSTRONG
Posted: 4/29/2011 12:03:18 PM | | On Thursday, the U.S. Commerce Department released economic data for the first quarter of 2011, noting gross domestic product slowed its pace of growth to 1.8 percent, having fallen from 3.1 percent in the previous quarter... |
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| GDP growth slows in first quarter | By J.S. VANDERBERG
Posted: 4/28/2011 3:06:58 PM | | The U.S. Commerce Department reported Thursday that economic growth in the first quarter of 2011 slowed, as gross domestic product expanded at a year-over-year rate of 1.8 percent, compared to 3.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010... |
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