Current:Home > NewsTradeEdge Exchange:Many small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop -Ascend Finance Compass
TradeEdge Exchange:Many small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop
SafeX Pro Exchange View
Date:2025-04-09 19:19:45
The TradeEdge ExchangeU.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! (2)
Related
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- The premiere of 'The Golden Bachelor' is almost here. How to watch Gerry Turner find love.
- Struggling Chargers cornerback J.C. Jackson has arrest warrant issued in Massachusetts
- Iconic female artist's lost painting is found, hundreds of years after it was created
- Selena Gomez engaged to Benny Blanco after 1 year together: 'Forever begins now'
- The best movies we saw at New York Film Festival, ranked (including 'All of Us Strangers')
- Pakistani raid on a militant hideout near Afghanistan leaves 3 militants dead, the military says
- Bruce Willis health update: Wife Emma says it's 'hard to know' if actor understands his dementia
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- California governor signs law barring schoolbook bans based on racial, gender teachings
Ranking
- John Galliano out at Maison Margiela, capping year of fashion designer musical chairs
- To TikTok or not to TikTok? One GOP candidate joins the app even as he calls it ‘digital fentanyl’
- David McCallum, star of hit TV series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and 'NCIS,' dies at 90
- Woman falls 150 feet to her death from cliff in North Carolina
- Why we love Bear Pond Books, a ski town bookstore with a French bulldog 'Staff Pup'
- Hells Angels club members, supporters indicted in 'vicious' hate crime attack in San Diego
- Is US migrant surge result of 'a broken and failed system?'
- Pilot dies in crash of an ultralight in central New Mexico
Recommendation
Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
Ohio State moves up, Washington leads Pac-12 contingent in top 10 of NCAA Re-Rank 1-133
Journey to celebrate 50th anniversary with 30 shows in 2024: See where they're headed
Butternut squash weighs in at 131.4 pounds at Virginia State Fair, breaking world record
The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms face federal probe over possible child labor violations
North Carolina to launch Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1
Driver pleads not guilty in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams