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Suddenly, Wall Street is worried that the U.S. economy is more ‘vulnerable’ than it looks

FortuneOctober 15, 20264 min read

The stock market is up 13% this year, unemployment is low, and U.S. GDP is growing, but suddenly it seems like Wall Street thinks this glass is half-empty rather than half-full.

Bespoke Investment Group spotted something it did not like in the most recent National Federation of Independent Business survey this week: That small businesses increasingly report their “number one problem” is poor sales. Of all the options in the survey, “the one problem that you don’t want to be your #1 problem is poor sales,” the asset manager says. “During prior economic contractions, we’ve seen this reading for poor sales tick sharply higher. As shown below, while…

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