Small businesses are more optimistic
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
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The Small Business Optimism Index hit a high for 2024; federal agencies team up to stop illegal e-cigarette sales; Apple unveils A.I. features; GameStop stock rally appears to be ending.
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| 0:00.0 | Small Businesses are more optimistic. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Novasava with a Marketplace Minute. |
| 0:08.0 | The Small Business Optim Index rose to its highest levels of the year in May. The National Federation of Independent |
| 0:14.7 | Business says more of its members say they're planning to hire and inflation |
| 0:19.6 | remains their top concern. Several federal agencies including the Postal Service |
| 0:24.2 | and Justice Department are joining forces to curb the illegal mail-order sale of e-cigarettes. |
| 0:29.4 | Authorities say unauthorized vaping products are flooding the US and are popular with underaged |
| 0:35.1 | users. |
| 0:36.5 | Apple plunged into the artificial intelligence space announcing new AI features in its upcoming software |
| 0:42.4 | updates. |
| 0:43.3 | Reviews were mixed, some analysts did forecast that the changes will cause a spike in |
| 0:47.7 | iPhone sales. |
| 0:49.4 | A rally in the price of GameStop shares appears to be near an end a month after it started with an internet |
| 0:54.4 | post. The video game retailer's stock more than tripled in value in early May. It has since given |
| 0:59.8 | up most of those gains. I'm Nova Safo with a marketplace minute. |
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