{"id":177507,"date":"2025-11-13T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T00:03:12","slug":"u-s-small-business-sentiment-slides-on-lower-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177507\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Small-Business Sentiment Slides on Lower Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">Optimism among U.S. small businesses continued to fall in October on weaker earnings trends, with labor shortages and the government shutdown also dragging on sentiment.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The National Federation of Independent Business said Tuesday that its small-business optimism index slipped to 98.2 in October from 98.8 in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Optimism among U.S. small businesses continued to fall in October on weaker earnings trends, with labor shortages and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[79,41572,41573,41570,13782,41565,6738,18,236,41571,14480,41579,19,41586,17,100657,41588,82482,1539,83893,44289,6158,41569,26243,384,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-177507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ce-executive-news-filter","10":"tag-ce-industry-news-filter","11":"tag-content-types","12":"tag-corporate","13":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","14":"tag-earnings","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-entrepreneurship","17":"tag-factiva-filters","18":"tag-financial-performance","19":"tag-gcapi","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-industrial-news","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20251111002434","24":"tag-medium-businesses","25":"tag-newsplus","26":"tag-north-america","27":"tag-risk-topics","28":"tag-risk-topics-regulations-regulators","29":"tag-small","30":"tag-small-medium-businesses","31":"tag-synd","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}