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Weak dollar squeezes small US importers

Since hitting its lowest point in November 2000, the euro has shot up by more than 50 per cent against the dollar, effectively raising the prices that American businesses pay for European goods. Similar gains have occurred with the currencies...

#exports#interest rates#international

Government keeps door open to Bancomext-Nafin merger

Mexico's government has kept the door open to a possible merger involving Ex-Im bank Bancomext and small business development bank…

#bank#banks#small business


Many companies stuck in small business loan fund bottleneck

The chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee Subcommittee for Examining the Effects of the Financial Crisis on Small Businesses, MK…

#bank#banks#crisis


BPLG/AFP small business sentiment indicator rise

The BNP Paribas Lease Group and l'Agence France-Presse (BPLG/AFP) indicator of sentiment in the French small- and medium-sized business (SME)…

#investment#small business


Riding up enterprise league on a surge in commerce

Small business activity recovered significantly last year, helping to propel the UK up the ranks of international entrepreneurship. In just…

#conference#international#Propel


SBA suspends small-business loans

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced that it has suspended its main US$9.4 billion loan programme because it has…

#bank#management#small business


Small business confidence soared in 2003

Four out of five owner-managers of small UK businesses believe their firms will be better off or remain the same…

#bank#economy#investment


Shake-up for business support funds

The relationship between business and government is not easy at the best of times. But it has been particularly difficult…

#Funding Options#guarantee#MAS


BNDES increases small business lending

Brazil's national development bank BNDES boosted its lending to micro- and small-size enterprises by 20% to more than 10bn reais…

#bank#Caixa#funding


Why are SMEs scared of PFI and PPP?

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) market is worth around Ј4.5 billion per year but most small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…

#small business#smes#Two


Dramatic rise in small business optimism

Further evidence of the improved atmosphere for small firms is revealed in a survey by the Bank of Scotland (BoS).…

#bank#financial services#NatWest


Small businesses offered framework of incentives

Britain's small businesses are to get a Ј400m boost to their cash flow over the next three years and access…

#cash-flow#Deloitte#small business

Maine Group to buy small Hyannis bank

The Banknorth Group of Maine announced plans on Tuesday to buy CCBT Financial Companies for $300 million in stock. Barring…

#bank#commercial lending#conference

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