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Sales of highly profitable pickup trucks are tightly correlated with housing starts, while buoyant business travel boosts demand from car-rental firms.
ECONOMIST: General Motors' IPO
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The growing adoption rates of payment technologies by small-business owners might partially explain why credit demand for working capital from small firms remains stubbornly low, even as their balance sheets and credit-worthiness improve, according to Robb Hilson, head of Bank of America small-business segment.
WSJ: Mobile Payments Brighten Small-Business Cash Flow
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Rohit Arora, chief executive of Biz2Credit, a small-business lending broker based in New York, says demand for loans from small firms is picking up as sales improve and businesses become more creditworthy.
WSJ: Small Signs That Small Business Lending Is Up