Current：Home > reviewsMany small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop -CapitalTrack
Many small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop
View
Date：2025-04-17 21:38:06
The U.S. economic outlook has brightened now that inflation is easing, the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates and the stock market is vaulting to record highs almost daily.
Yet many small businesses are struggling to survive as they cope with more financial strains than they’ve felt in years, posing at least some risk to an expected “soft landing” for the economy that avoids a recession, loan advisers, trade groups and some economists say.
Capitalize on high interest rates: Best current CD rates
veryGood！ (17)
Related
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- FBI agent carjacked at gunpoint in Washington D.C. amid city's rise in stolen vehicles
- Georgia-Alabama predictions: Our expert picks for the 2023 SEC championship game
- Best picture before bedtime? Oscars announces earlier start time for 2024 ceremony
- Rolling Loud 2024: Lineup, how to stream the world's largest hip hop music festival
- The Excerpt podcast: Dolly Parton isn't just a country music star; she's a rock star now too
- Kari Lake loses suit to see ballot envelopes in 3rd trial tied to Arizona election defeat
- Applications for jobless benefits up modestly, but continuing claims reach highest level in 2 years
- Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
- 'Insecure' actress DomiNque Perry accuses Darius Jackson's brother Sarunas of abuse
Ranking
- Working Well: When holidays present rude customers, taking breaks and the high road preserve peace
- Six West Virginia jail employees indicted in connection with death of incarcerated man
- Sanders wins Sportsperson of Year award from Sports Illustrated for starting turnaround at Colorado
- Georgia county seeking to dismiss lawsuit by slave descendants over rezoning of their island homes
- Krispy Kreme offers a free dozen Grinch green doughnuts: When to get the deal
- Gambian man convicted in Germany for role in killings under Gambia’s former ruler
- Pakistan police arrest 4 men in the death of a woman after a photo with her boyfriend went viral
- Rare giant rat that can grow to the size of a baby and chew through coconuts caught on camera for first time
Recommendation
B.A. Parker is learning the banjo
A house explodes and bursts into flames in Minnesota, killing at least 1 person, fire chief says
'Tears streaming down my face': New Chevy commercial hits home with Americans
Maine will give free college tuition to Lewiston mass shooting victims, families
Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
Biden hosts the Angolan president in an effort to showcase strengthened ties, as Africa visit slips
Four migrants who were pushed out of a boat die just yards from Spain’s southern coast
Inside Clean Energy: Battery Prices Are Falling Again, and That’s a Good Thing