{"id":225206,"date":"2026-01-07T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225206\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:49:07","slug":"2026-business-leaders-outlook-expectations-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225206\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Business Leaders Outlook: Expectations &#038; Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While down from a multi-year high of 65% a year ago, it represents a healthy recovery from the 2025 midyear survey. Executives\u2019 confidence in their own company performance remains strong, with 71% reporting optimism for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Business leaders maintain a cautious global outlook, with most neutral or pessimistic (73%). Optimism for local economies has declined from 59% to 44% amid shifting policies and industry-specific challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Midsize business owners continue to demonstrate resilience amid ongoing challenges and economic uncertainty. Roughly three-quarters (73%) expect to increase revenue in 2026, while 64% project higher profits. Nearly half (48%) still plan to expand their workforce, even as many incorporate AI into their operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While down from a multi-year high of 65% a year ago, it represents a healthy recovery from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,37048,123322,104289,104291,85,3750,46,3753,2819],"class_list":["post-225206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-business-growth","tag-business-leaders-outlook","tag-commercial-banking","tag-emerging-middle-market","tag-il","tag-insight","tag-israel","tag-markets-and-economy","tag-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}