NFIB Small Business Optimism Fades; Outlook For Economy Plunges
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
07/08/2014
For a brief month of “we’ve been down so long, everything looks up”, the NFIB Small Business survey suggested the ‘recovery’ was real and so serial extrapolators (throwing out the ‘and small business is the engine of job growth’ meme) jumped on it as ‘proof’ that stocks are cheap and bonds should be sold… then comes June data today (and it’s a disaster). 6 of the NFIB’s 10 indicators decreased, with about half of the decline in the overall index due to less confidence in future business conditions, the report said, with only 2 indicators improving. CapEx dropped, Sales expectations dropped, ‘good time to expand’ dropped, actual sales dropped with only hiring plans rising (which seems odd in the face of all the negativity in the rest of the survey) – we will see.
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