Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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still does not show signs of recovery the U.S. economy, even in January, the index reflecting expectations small business (small business optimism ind ex) losing 1.1 points down, and reaching to 84.1 or the second lowest in the survey's history that dates back to 1974.

to weigh on the index are as expectations of further reduction of inventories by businesses and the decline recorded from the profits.

From the first graph, which shows the trend of current stocks (blue line) and stock futures (red line), we can see that, despite the sharp drop in stocks currents that occurred in 2008, small businesses continue to believe the stock level is too high and think to reduce them further over the next three months.

The second chart shows the trend instead of profits which in January reached its lowest level since 1974 when the survey began.

see also:
manufacturing PMI index

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