Economic uncertainty Archives | Vistage Research Center Resource for Business Leadership, Coaching, and CEOs Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 141323424 What’s driving increasing CEO pessimism? Tariffs and trade /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20250321-ceo-pulse-tariffs-and-trade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20250321-ceo-pulse-tariffs-and-trade /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20250321-ceo-pulse-tariffs-and-trade/#respond Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:25:38 +0000 /research-center/?p=47075 For CEOs of small and midsize businesses, the on-again, off-again tariffs are a source of increasing pessimism about the year ahead, and the threat of reciprocal tariffs and trade policies only adds to the uncertainty. Early analysis of the Q1...

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]]> /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20250321-ceo-pulse-tariffs-and-trade/feed/ 0 47075 5 challenges that keep CEOs up at night /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20240820-ceo-challenges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20240820-ceo-challenges /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20240820-ceo-challenges/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:11:00 +0000 /research-center/?p=46351 As business leaders look ahead to the second half of 2024, they face geopolitical instability, a looming general election, interest rate uncertainty and nagging inflation amid a persistently strong labor market. Today’s CEOs have never had to navigate more confusing...

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]]> /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20240820-ceo-challenges/feed/ 0 46351 Small business confidence erodes as economic sentiment hits record lows [WSJ/Vistage May 2023] /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20230602-small-business-confidence-erodes-wsj-survey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20230602-small-business-confidence-erodes-wsj-survey /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20230602-small-business-confidence-erodes-wsj-survey/#respond Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:20:00 +0000 /research-center/?p=44105 Only twice in the nearly 11-year history of the WSJ/Vistage Small Business CEO Confidence Index has sentiment about the future of the U.S. economy been worse. The Index dropped to 73.3, falling 7% compared to last month, making it the...

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]]> /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20230602-small-business-confidence-erodes-wsj-survey/feed/ 0 44105 Small business confidence dips over interest rate increases, recession concerns [WSJ/Vistage Oct 2022] /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20221102-small-business-confidence-dips-wsj-survey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20221102-small-business-confidence-dips-wsj-survey /research-center/business-financials/economic-trends/20221102-small-business-confidence-dips-wsj-survey/#respond Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:27:00 +0000 /research-center/?p=43547 After rising for two months, the WSJ/Vistage Small Business CEO Confidence Index declined in October to reach 77.7 While triple 7s are lucky when playing slot machines, this figure is hardly fortuitous in the context of a nearly 5% decline,...

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