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Small Business Surveys
Two marketplace reports.
| | | | Tatum conducts a monthly survey of its partners regarding current business and economic conditions. The survey looks back at the past 30 days and forward to the next 60 days. With our partners serving a broad base of industries in every geographic region of the United States, the Tatum Survey of Business Conditions takes a representative pulse of economic activity as of the first day of every month. Results are published the first week of each month on our website.
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The National Federation of Independent Business Economic Report for
July, 2008
SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC TRENDS | | The Index of Small Business Optimism fell a point to 88.2 (1986=100), establishing one of the longest strings of recession level readings in the history of the survey. Half of the decline was due to weaker capital spending plans (the lowest reading since 1975). Lower earnings, fewer job openings and lower inventory satisfaction also posted substantial declines which were offset by gains in expected real sales, business conditions and the percent of owners reporting the current period as a good time to expand.(read more) | | | | |
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"Jim Blasingame is a tireless advocate of small business owners. No one works harder or does a better job of raising the profile of the small business community. His advocacy of small business is a labor of love and it comes across in all the media he delivers."
— Joan Pryde
Senior Editor
The Kiplinger Editors
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