{"id":587259,"date":"2026-08-17T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587259\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T09:18:29","slug":"nfib-small-business-optimism-index-hits-highest-level-since-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/587259\/","title":{"rendered":"NFIB Small Business Optimism Index Hits Highest Level Since 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1256wsi0\">Confidence among U.S. small businesses rose in July as hiring plans improved.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u e1256wsi0\">The National Federation of Independent Business said Tuesday that its small-business optimism index rose to 99.8, its highest level since August 2025. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected a reading of 97.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confidence among U.S. small businesses rose in July as hiring plans improved. The National Federation of Independent Business&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114,265741,91997,80314,80312,5147,80309,228717,228719,3313,2793,29360,142170,265744,293,80313,9776,27750,85,77777,58216,46,265742,265743,92867,2819,7476,265740,19806,1032,91999],"class_list":["post-587259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-business-economic-sentiment-data","tag-ce-executive-news-filter","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-dragonfly-north-america","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-earnings","tag-economic-news","tag-economic-performance","tag-economic-performance-indicators","tag-economic-sentiment-data","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-performance","tag-gcapi","tag-il","tag-indicators","tag-industrial-news","tag-israel","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260811001855","tag-medium-businesses","tag-newsplus","tag-north-america","tag-small","tag-small-medium-businesses","tag-synd","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587259","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=587259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}