Sentences with phrase «small business confidence»

Overall, the bank's small business confidence index stood at 70 this fall, compared with 63 in the fall of 2012 and 59 last spring.

The group's index of small business confidence rose to 105.8, its highest since December 2004.

Furthermore, the FSB said that small business confidence in both London and Scotland remained in «negative territory», putting it out of kilter with the rest of the U.K.

By contrast, small business confidence seems to be on the rise, Raddon suggests, in part because entrepreneurs are having an easier time getting loans.

In its semi-annual Small Business Confidence Report released Monday, the bank said that 62 per cent of respondents surveyed felt 2014 would be a better year than 2013.

A gauge of U.S. small business confidence rose to a 12 - year high in December as optimism about the economy intensified among business owners following the November election, the National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday.

A targeted VAT cut and a National Insurance Contributions (NICs) holiday must be introduced for small firms as small business confidence fell to -9.3 due to the pressure of weak demand and rising costs, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) «Voice of Small Business» Index.

Acknowledging that small business confidence had bounced back to levels seen before the U.K. decided to leave the European Union, small firms were still seeing their growth prospects falling, the FSB said Monday.

Capital spending did pick up last year and small business confidence is at its highest levels since the Reagan era, but that optimism has to continue to fuel investment.

Small business confidence is holding steady at one of the highest levels recorded in the last seven years.