The U.S. Small Business Administration has honored lenders for notable growth in facilitating financing for business owners. In particular, three lenders have been recognized for dramatically increasing their performances ...

A new survey of 54 economists provides a fairly optimistic outlook for the remainder of this year and 2013, with moderate growth in jobs and consumer spending anticipated. Those surveyed raised their average monthly ...

After sliding the previous month, a national index that measures small business optimism gained 2 points in April, reaching 94.5, the highest reading since December 2007. However, the index based on a survey by ...

Small business hiring – one of the primary components of the overall U.S. employment picture – remained stagnant in April, according to the National Federal of Independent Business. The overall U.S. employment ...

Small business revenues are slowly recovering from the depths of the financial crisis, but are now starting to reach levels seen before the recession began in 2007, according to a new index from payroll processor ...

Amazon.com has launched a new site offering more than 500,000 items for mostly commercial and industrial customers. AmazonSupply.com is not exactly for the general shopping population, selling the likes of bench-top ...

If you want to start a business and you happen to be in Austin, then your odds are better for succeeding. For the third consecutive year, Austin topped The Business Journals’ On Numbers analysis as the best ...

Institutions taking part in the government’s Small Business Lending Fund increased loans in the last quarter of 2011 by $1.3 billion over the prior quarter — for a total of $4.8 billion more than the average ...

A national measure of small business optimism dropped in March after six months of increases, with hiring plans and expected sales growth leading the decline. The Small-Business Optimism Index fell by almost 2 points ...

A brighter outlook on sales will prompt nearly one in three U.S. small business owners to hire new employees over the next six months, with optimism returning to pre-Great Recession levels, according to a survey ...