Current:Home > StocksMany small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop -VisionFunds
Many small businesses teeter as costs stay high while sales drop
View
Date:2025-04-18 14:26:33
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! (24238)
Related
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
- Virginia Tech star Elizabeth Kitley ruled out of ACC tournament with knee injury
- Kylie Jenner reveals who impacted her style shift: 'The trends have changed'
- How Barry Keoghan Paid Tribute to Sabrina Carpenter at Pre-Oscars 2024 Parties
- Buckingham Palace staff under investigation for 'bar brawl'
- Teen Mom's Taylor Selfridge Reveals When Her Daughter Will Have Final Heart Surgery
- NFL free agency 2024: Ranking best 50 players set to be free agents
- Washington state achieves bipartisan support to ban hog-tying by police and address opioid crisis
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
- Hawaii firefighters get control of fire at a biomass power plant on Kauai
Ranking
- Most popular books of the week: See what topped USA TODAY's bestselling books list
- Authorities investigate oily sheen off Southern California coast
- Inside 2024 Oscar Nominee Emma Stone's Winning Romance With Husband Dave McCary
- 'Love is Blind' reunion trailer reveals which cast members, alums will be in the episode
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Fans, social media pay tribute to 'Dragon Ball' creator Akira Toriyama following death
- Tiger Woods won't play in the 2024 Players Championship
- A St. Louis driver has been found guilty in a crash that severed a teen athlete’s legs
Recommendation
How to watch new prequel series 'Dexter: Original Sin': Premiere date, cast, streaming
CIA director returns to Middle East to push for hostage, cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel
Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline
Appeal canceled, plea hearing set for Carlee Russell, woman who faked her own abduction
2025 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to self
Program that allows 30,000 migrants from 4 countries into the US each month upheld by judge
Inside 2024 Oscar Nominee Emma Stone's Winning Romance With Husband Dave McCary
Convicted killer Robert Baker says his ex-lover Monica Sementilli had no part in the murder of her husband Fabio