Bank loans outstanding to small businesses declined by 2.4 percent, or $ 15 billion, in the first quarter of 2011, the Small Business Administration’s Advocacy Office reports today. Here’s what the drop looks like over the last five quarters:
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Lending to small U.S. businesses is making a comeback, with 12 investment firms arranging $ 1.38 billion of initial stock offerings
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Republicans in the U.S. House aren’t rushing to embrace a small business tax break included in their campaign platform last year
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The financing website helps indie and first-time filmmakers crowdsource six-figure sums
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Congress should try to fix the problems that most small business owners face today, not just those issues that matter to a few
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Small banks organized as C corps have applied for less than a third of the $ 30 billion available from a Treasury program intended to increase small-business lending
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The number of small businesses in the U.S. that said they planned to add to payrolls in the next three months held steady in April, indicating the labor market will be slow to improve, a private survey found.
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Coastal business owners in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are still reeling from the effects of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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