Small Business Optimism at Highest Levels Since Start of 2014
23.09.2014
WSJ – Vistage-Infographic-0814 TJK
WSJ-Vistage CEO-Survey Summ-0814
Optimism among small firms rose to its highest level since the
start of 2014, with the August reading the second highest since
the survey first began in June of 2012. The WSJ/Vistage Small
Business CEO Confidence Index was 109.8 in the August 2014
survey, up from 107.7 in July and above last year’s 104.2. The
August reading was only slightly below the peak of 111.5 set
in January 2014. All component questions improved in August,
indicating broadly improving conditions. Of particular note was
that small firms were more willing than any time in the past two
years to expand their productive capacity by increasing their
fixed investment expenditures. Plans to add to their workforce
rebounded as did anticipated revenues.
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