Posts Tagged ‘small’
Team Macro Man are currently on vacation and will be back sometime next week, so probably no posts before then.
But first some notes from here in the sunny Aegean seas.
Lobster pasta in basic tavernas is 90 Euros and interestingly it appears to be on most taverna menues. TMM find it hard to believe that every [...]

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — The House and Senate are at a stalemate when it comes to getting rid of a hated small business tax reporting provision.
While lawmakers in both parties of the House and the Senate want to repeal the so-called 1099 reporting rule, calling it an onerous provision that will break the back [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It’s not every day that Main Street gets a slam dunk on Wall Street. But the Federal Reserve’s proposed cap on “swipe fees” could significantly reduce small businesses’ costs while cutting into big credit card company’s profits.
When a consumer pays with a debit or credit card, the retailer has to [...]

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama blasted Senate Republicans on Monday for blocking a small business assistance bill, calling their opposition “pure partisan politics.”
The country needs a “full scale attack” on economic sluggishness, he told reporters at the White House.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The town of Elmira, an upstate New York community that once prospered during the manufacturing boom, got a spot of good news Friday.
A total of 575 jobs are coming to the small city, after Amtrak awarded an Elmira-based company a contract to build 130 new train cars.
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With the market swinging in and out of correction territory, long-term mutual funds are seeing more investor exits than entrances. Few want to risk much in an uncertain environment.
Stocks re-entered technical correction territory on Friday, as investors wrestled with another possible debt crisis in Hungary and news that employers added far fewer jobs in the [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The lending market for Main Street remains pretty jammed up, but one segment of the credit landscape is recovering thanks to stimulus efforts.
The Small Business Administration’s flagship lending program backed twice as many loans in the past three months as it did in the year ago period.
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