August 2017 Small Business Optimism
Submitted by Atlas Indicators Investment Advisors on September 13th, 2017Small business owners continued feeling ebullient in August according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Increasing one-tenth of a percentage point, the Small Business Optimism Index matched its highest reading in 12 years, reaching 105.3 in August 2017. Details in the report were mixed, but the magnitude of the rate of change for rising categories was greate