Small Business Owner Optimism Surges

The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, a measure of small-business owners’ perceptions of their operating environments, surged 24 points in November 2010, from -28 to -4. This represents a sharp improvement from the previous in July 2010 and suggests that small business owners, though still more pessimistic than optimistic overall, are the most positive they have been since hitting roughly zero in April 2009.
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