Inflation Worries Drive Optimism About the Future to Record Low Among Small Businesses

Small businesses are gloomy about their future, with an index of future expectations plunging to a 48-year record low, the National Federation of Independent Business reported on Tuesday.

While the monthly Small Business Optimism Index was unchanged in April, the percentage of firms saying inflation was their most important problem hit its highest reading since 1980 at 32%. Read more »