{"id":2870,"date":"2012-07-16T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2870\/why-small-business-owners-feel-besieged\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T12:00:21","slug":"why-small-business-owners-feel-besieged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2870\/why-small-business-owners-feel-besieged\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Small-Business Owners Feel Besieged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/investing\/2012\/07\/10\/why-small-business-owners-feel-besieged\/'>Why Small-Business Owners Feel Besieged<\/a><br \/>The National Federation of Independent Business released its business optimism index Tuesday, its gauge of confidence among small businesses. The numbers were fairly dismal. The index fell 3 points in June, falling to 91.4, which was far short  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/13\/banking-libor-barclays-idUSL6E8ID5W320120713'>Barclays business feels pain of rate fixing scandal<\/a><br \/>LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Barclays Plc is already counting the cost of lost business over its part in rigging a global interest rate and may be spared a worse exodus of customers only because the cloud of scandal hangs over other banks too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Small-Business Owners Feel BesiegedThe National Federation of Independent Business released its business optimism index Tuesday, its gauge of confidence among small businesses. The numbers were fairly dismal. The index fell 3 points in June, falling to 91.4, which was far short Barclays business feels pain of rate fixing scandalLONDON, July 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Barclays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/2870\/why-small-business-owners-feel-besieged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Small-Business Owners Feel Besieged<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}