United States Nfib Business Optimism Index 1975-2018 | Data | Chart

The NFIB's Small Business Optimism Index in the US rose to 108.8 in August of 2018 from 107.9 in July, beating market expectations of 108.2. It is a new record high reading, topping 108 in July of 1983, driven by small business owners executing on the plans they’ve put in place due to dramatic changes in the nation’s economic policy. Increases were seen in plans to increase employment (+3 to 26); make capital outlays (+3 to 33); increase inventories (+6 to 10); current job openings (+1 to 38); earnings trend (+2 to 1) and good time to expand (2 to 34). On the other hand, declines were seen in the sub-indices for economy expected to improve (1 to 34), higher retail sales (-3 to 26), current inventories (-3 to -3) and credit conditions (-2 to -6). NFIB Business Optimism Index in the United States averaged 98.17 Index Points from 1975 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 108.80 Index Points in August of 2018 and a record low of 80.10 Index Points in April of 1980.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-07-10	09:45 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index	107.2	107.8	105.6	105
2018-08-14	10:00 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index	107.9	107.2	106.9	106.7
2018-09-11	10:00 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index	108.8	107.9	108.2	103.5
2018-10-09	10:00 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index		108.8		102
2018-11-13	11:00 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index				101
2018-12-11	11:00 AM	NFIB Business Optimism Index				100

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	61.30	58.10	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	55.60	54.70	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	52.90	54.80	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	58.50	55.70	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	53.40	54.70	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	4.90	4.00	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.40	0.40	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	3.10	2.60	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.08	77.90	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-1.70	0.70	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-1.00	1.20	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.20	0.10	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.20	0.40	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	497754.00	501718.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-0.80	0.60	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.60	0.10	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	-26.93	30.34	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.60	0.10	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22245.00	23106.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2012.60	1965.30	2012.60	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	108.80	107.90	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	76.50	75.00	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	22.90	11.90	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	19.00	25.60	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	24.00	20.00	27.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.13	0.48	2.76	-5.21		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	30.90	32.30	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	63.60	65.50	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.45	3.00	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	445.58	464.21	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	16.72	16.77	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-2.06	-5.30	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	86.00	69.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-1719.00	1250.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	123.61	123.25	123.61	46.91	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	1.25	-8.64	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	866.00	867.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.85	5.70	5.85	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	2.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	6.00	8.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7275.00	6847.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	14.10	12.70	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Nfib Business Optimism Index

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index is a composite of ten seasonally adjusted components calculated based on the answers of around 620 NFIB members. This questions include: plans to increase employment, plans to make capital outlays, plans to increase inventories, expect economy to improve, expect real sales higher, current inventory, current job openings, expected credit conditions, now a good time to expand, and earnings trend. This page provides - United States Nfib Business Optimism Index - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Nfib Business Optimism Index - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2018.