Key issues facing small businesses amid weak retail sales

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Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 5:30 AM

Retail sales rose less than expected in February, and the Small Business Optimism index fell to 100.7 in February from its January reading of 102.8.

Elizabeth Gore, co-founder and president of Hello Alice and host of the upcoming Yahoo Finance podcast The Big Idea, joins Market Domination Overtime to discuss the new data and explain what it signals about the state of the US consumer and small businesses.

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