Small business sentiment has gone up for the seventh consecutive month in Canada during March, according to the latest business barometer index by the CFIB (the Canadian Federation of Independent Business’s). The CFIB has stated that the continuing optimism indicates that smaller and medium sized companies have returned to a level of sentiment that would [...]
The vice president of the European commission has said that small businesses need to do more do more to make themselves energy and resource efficient, otherwise environmental policies will fail. The vice president Antonio Tajani’s comments have come after the first in depth analysis on how smaller businesses are having an effect on both pollution [...]
Small business confidence in the United States went up to its highest point in a year during the first quarter of 2012, according to a survey released this week. More small firms are also planning to increase hiring as the American economy’s prospects have improved, the poll shows. The confidence index by Vistage International jumped [...]
The American President Barack Obama has endorsed bipartisan legislation this week relating to the US’s small companies. The legislation is expected to make it simpler for America’s start-up firms to bring in capital without breaching federal regulations. The vote in the House, in favour by 380 votes to 41, overshadowed concerns from some Democrats, as [...]
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Twitter has officially launched its self-service ad program for small companies this week. Plans for the new resource were announced earlier in the year as Twitter’s answer to AdWords, by Google (Public, NASDAQ:GOOG). According to a number of recent reports, representatives of Twitter have revealed that only a small number of businesses will be able [...]
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Small and medium-sized enterprises in Scotland missed out on lending under a recent UK government plan, according to some analysts. Recent data has also uncovered that smaller firms from Scotland received less than 5% of lending from the project started by big banks in Britain and the UK’s government. Under the project, named the Project [...]
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A new £20bn government scheme, which has the aim of boosting bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has been launched by George Osborne, the chancellor of the UK. The National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS) will allow smaller companies to have access to loans with interest rates that are 1 percentage point lower than [...]
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A business organisation from Wales has called on the British Chancellor George Osborne to allocate more money for investment in Welsh infrastructure, as part of his upcoming budget. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Wales urged Mr Osborne to make capital investment one of his priorities when he makes his budget statement on the [...]
Analysts in the US are forecasting that gas prices will surpass $4 per gallon by May this year. They also say that prices of gas are already near record highs for this time of year. In early February, the national average hit $3.48 a gallon, the highest price in history for that point in the [...]
According to a recent independent survey by Intuit (Public, NASDAQ:INTU), the payrolls processing company, small businesses in the US added 45,000 workers during February this year, while they also offered employees more money despite the fact that working hours changed very little. However, Intuit has stated that the rise was a step-backwards from the revised [...]
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