Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Small Business Optimism is Down, but Sharp Upturn Expected

The NFIB’s latest report on small business sentiment is out. The NFIB’s Optimism Index is one of the longest standing indices of small business sentiment, and so I tend to place a lot of weight on it.

It shows that conditions and sentiment are not a pretty sight among small businesses.

Although there have been some tiny signals — albeit weak signals — from other sources suggesting things may be looking up in the economy, you wouldn’t know it from looking at the NFIB report. First of all, there’s this chart:

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