Source NFIB (latest release)
Measures Level of a composite index based on surveyed small businesses;
Usual Effect Actual > Forecast = Good for currency;
Frequency Released monthly, about 11 days after the month ends;
Next Release May 13, 2014
FF Notes Small Businesses are defined as an independent for-profit enterprise that employ between 1 and 250 people, not including the owners;
Derived Via Survey of small businesses which asks respondents to rate the relative level of economic conditions including labor markets, inventories and sales, capital spending, inflation, earnings and wages, and credit markets;
Acro Expand National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB);