Trade dispute, consumer spending slowdown hurting small businesses: Equifax - BNN Bloomberg
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Small businesses across Canada are facing challenges as consumers cut back on spending and navigate a complicated trade landscape, a new Equifax Canada report showed.
More than 286,000 businesses missed at least one credit payment in the second quarter, up 5.6 per cent from a year ago, the agency’s business credit trends report published Tuesday, found.
A higher delinquency rate was “expected to a certain degree,” said Jeff Brown, head of commercial solutions at Equifax Canada, though he added that even he was surprised at the size of the increase.
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