{"id":77886,"date":"2025-10-14T13:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:41:10","slug":"us-september-nfib-small-business-optimism-index-98-8-vs-100-6-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77886\/","title":{"rendered":"US September NFIB small business optimism index 98.8 vs 100.6 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index declined<br \/>\n2.0 points in September to 98.8. This was the first decline in three<br \/>\nmonths, though it remains above the survey\u2019s 52-year average of 98. The<br \/>\nUncertainty Index rose 7 points from August to 100, the fourth-highest<br \/>\nreading in over 51 years.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg said: &#8220;Optimism among small business owners decreased in September. While most<br \/>\nowners evaluate their own business as currently healthy, they are having<br \/>\n to manage rising inflationary pressures, slower sales expectations, and<br \/>\n ongoing labor market challenges. Although uncertainty is high, small<br \/>\nbusiness owners remain resilient as they seek to better understand how<br \/>\npolicy changes will impact their operations&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US NFIB Small Business Optimism Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index declined 2.0 points in September to 98.8. This was the first decline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-77886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}