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Small firms in the driving seat

Our econometric model suggests that non-farm payroll employment increased by another healthy 200,000 in June and that the unemployment rate fell to 6.2% from 6.3% in May. Meanwhile, the recent surge in bank lending suggests that small businesses may soon account for an even larger share of the net gains in employment.

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