US DATA: April NFIB Small Business Optimism +2 pts to 94.5 and text
says “labor market indicators did improve, suggesting better job
growth in the next few months. While the Index remains historically
weak, there was good news in the details… Positive sales trends
quarter on quarter reached the highest level since April 2006. This was
a major contributing factor to the huge improvement in reported profit
trends, an 11 point gain and equal to half the improvement of the
Index.” More on MNI Main wire.