NFIB

Small Business Economic Trends -- January 2004
01/15/2004

Toasting the New Year with spirits lifted by more than holiday champagne, the nation's small-business owners' outlook bubbled up 1.6 points to 106.9 in December, less than a point shy of the National Federation of Independent Business's (NFIB) Index of Small-Business Optimism's 1983 record and the fourth highest in the survey's history.