November 20th, 2009 by Alex Coté
In case our posts haven’t given it away, we’ve been watching the small business credit crunch in earnest over the past year. While the central theme always seemed to be same – big lenders get increasingly stingy, leave Main Street mom-and-pops starving for credit – our own data and our conversations with credit pros suggested [...]
November 18th, 2009 by Alex Coté
The small business credit crunch has justifiably been one of the primary news themes during the recession and slow recovery. And while stingy, risk-adverse credit behavior from banks and lenders is often labeled as the primary culprit, some small business owners may actually be exacerbating the credit crunch, albeit more due to ignorance than intentionally [...]
November 12th, 2009 by Alex Coté
When we launched the Cortera Credit Exchange our primary goal (it still is) was to drastically augment the amount of information available on private companies by expanding the information sharing between credit grantors of all forms. I’m happy to report that we are seeing that exact behavior every day. Another intriguing trend is one that [...]
November 10th, 2009 by Alex Coté
The S&P is up over 50% since its March 2009 lows and yet for most of us, the leading indicators and large company earnings seem to defy the reality on Main Street. Newsweek offered a view on why such a gap may exist – and some indicators are emerging to focus on small business sentiment [...]
November 3rd, 2009 by Alex Coté
After four consecutive months of improvement in our Supply Chain Index numbers the October 2009 Report shows a reversal to levels not seen since early 2009. While this might be a cause for concern, this increase is likely part of a normal seasonal trend that we have tracked for several years now. Corporate slowing of [...]
