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| Real Estate Linked to the Small Business Credit Crunch
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| Wednesday, March 10,2010 05:56 PM |
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It's no secret that small businesses in the U.S. face difficulties accessing credit. According to a survey of a random sample of 751 small businesses conducted by Gallup at the end of 2009 for the National Federation of Independent Business Research......
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| Regulators ease up on small business loans
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| Wednesday, March 03,2010 04:44 AM |
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It's a chicken-and-egg problem that's plagued the credit markets for a year: Small businesses become riskier lending bets in a downturn, prompting banks to slash their lending. But tight credit cuts off the financing companies need to hire and grow......
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| Small business credit in a deep recession
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| Friday, February 26,2010 03:56 AM |
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Denny Dennis, senior fellow with the NFIB Research Foundation, let me know a while back that he was working on a new small business survey looking at the impact of the recession on credit. The NFIB released the report "Small Business Credit in......
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| Vendors Can Help With Small Business Financing
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| Friday, February 19,2010 06:52 AM |
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Strong relationships are vital in landing financing. That's why some small business owners have found luck with a group they already know well—their vendors.Negotiating with vendors to secure better trade terms isn't new. But research indicates t......
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| Entrepreneurs Weigh Credit-Card Options
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| Tuesday, February 16,2010 05:09 AM |
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Small-business owners who rely on their company's credit card to purchase big-ticket items or finance day-to-day operations won't see any benefits from this month's federal credit-card reform—unless they put those expenses on a personal card. Th......
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| The Promise - and Peril - of Using Credit Cards to Finance a Small Business
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| Thursday, February 11,2010 04:48 AM |
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The gift boutique that Donna Bollinger opened here in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in November 2008 is her first entrepreneurial effort, already profitable—and financed on plastic."Credit cards made this possible," says Ms. Bollinger, w......
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| Obama pitches aid for struggling small businesses
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| Tuesday, February 02,2010 11:01 PM |
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Obama's message of the day was a proposal highlighted in his State of the Union address last week: funneling $30 billion to local banks so they can lend small businesses money they need to grow their enterprises and create jobs.He toured a business ......
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| Small Business Confidence Jumps in January
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| Tuesday, February 02,2010 07:15 AM |
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America's small business owners expressed higher economic hopes in January, largely due to increased expectations that conditions for their own businesses would improve in the next six months, according to the Discover Small Business Watch. The Watc......
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| Small Businesses Who Hire New Employees May See Tax Credits
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| Wednesday, January 27,2010 05:15 AM |
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Obama's Jobs Tax Credit: Will It Succeed In Boosting Small Business, Creating Jobs?WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's push to create jobs includes a new tax credit for small businesses that add employees, an idea that fell flat in Congress las......
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| US Small-Business Optimism Deteriorates Further
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| Thursday, January 14,2010 04:51 AM |
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Small-business owners grew even more pessimistic in the final month of 2009, capping off what was a trying year for their businesses.The Small Business Optimism Index decreased 0.3 point to 88.0 last month from November, reported the National Federat......
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