Most CEOs from global corporations (67 percent) and more than half of U.S. small-business owners (59 percent) are looking beyond 2012 and expect the economy to improve in 2013, according to the 2012 NYSE Euronext CEO Report.
Still, 80 percent of CEO respondents and 60 percent of small-business respondents expect this growth to hit at a slow or moderate pace in 2013. The survey also finds that 48 percent of respondents consider the global economy poor while another 48 percent of respondents believe it is fair.
"Business leaders in the U.S. and around the world have significant concerns yet are guardedly optimistic on the prospects for the economy, their businesses and job creation in the years ahead," says Duncan Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext. "My colleagues and I are grateful to the record number of global participants in this year's survey, which offers valuable insights from global business leaders and – for the first time – America's small business and entrepreneurial community. Heading into the U.S. election season, business leaders are universally focused on the economy and jobs and asking policymakers to provide more certainty around their tax and regulatory burdens."
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Attaining capital continues to be a problem as 43 percent of CEO respondents and 21 percent of small-business owner respondents report having enough capital. Twenty percent of CEO respondents and 47 percent of small-business respondents say they do not have enough capital.
Almost all (92 percent) of CEO respondents and 74 percent of small-business owner respondents say they feel optimistic for their companies' growth prospects over the next three years starting in 2013. For start-up businesses, 29 percent of CEO respondents and 41 percent of small-business owner respondents consider today's current environment favorable.
More than two-thirds believe job creation should mostly be in the hands of the private, and most respondents agree that reducing business tax rates is the most effective road to accelerated growth of permanent jobs. As nearly two-thirds of CEO respondents say they expect to bring in more workers in 2013, one-third of small-business owner respondents say the plan the same.
The majority of both CEOs (86 percent) and small business owners (87 percent) say they anticipate the election having an effect of the U.S. economy while 79 percent of both groups of respondents believe it will impact job creation.
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