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The Cefa Brief

KommentareBefundePerspektivenErklärstücke

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Small & Medium Enterprise

3 Beiträge

Beiträge

  • ErklärstückRegional Development

    What a new business application actually counts

    Business applications are the fastest local signal of new enterprise, and the most often oversold. By the end you will know what the filing is, how far it sits from a business with employees, and what the count cannot tell a city.

  • BefundMacroeconomics & Markets

    Four fifths of the rise in new business applications since 2020 came in a single year

    The weekly average went from 84 thousand applications in 2020 to 104 thousand in 2021, and the four years since have added five. The 2025 reading of 109 thousand is the highest of the six, and also the third rise in a series that has fallen in the year between each one.

  • ErklärstückTrade & Investment

    What an export credit agency does for a sale abroad

    An export credit agency is a public body that takes on the risk a commercial bank will not, so that a domestic exporter can sell to a foreign buyer on credit. By the end you should be able to follow the transaction and see where the public exposure actually sits.