Equipment Leasing Small Business News + More 4 Ways to Make Things Happen on a Tight Budget + MORE 05/19/2017

The victory of a pro-European centrist in France’s presidential election has delivered a further boost to already high consumer confidence in the eurozone.

Farm-machinery maker Deere & Co. raised its profit forecast for this year by 33% on booming demand in South America, an unexpectedly rosy outlook that sent shares in agricultural equipment and supply companies up sharply.

VietJet used to be best known for its rather un-Marxist promotional gimmick of flying bikini-clad models on its airplanes. But it is now soaring under the leadership of Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, passing state-owned behemoth Vietnam Airlines in market capitalization.

Big European companies are riding a return of consumer confidence, ringing up their fastest growth in profits in seven years and outpacing U.S. counterparts.

Commuting via Lake Washington cut my travel time in half, and provided some valuable lessons for business.

Zell reminisces about reselling Playboy magazines in 1950s Chicago.

Naysayers shouldn’t stop you from forging ahead, especially if you have the the willpower as well as the research to prove them wrong.

In excerpts first on Entrepreneur from the Masters of Scale podcast series, the founder of Walker & Company shares when he went against the grain — and what we can learn from it.

Want to start a business? There’s an app – or four – for that.

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Thousands of AT&T Inc. employees walked off the job Friday afternoon, starting a three-day protest to demand more protections for retail workers, call-center staffers and technicians.

Ciber Inc. won court approval to sell its assets to HTC Global Services Inc., after the company prevailed with a $93 million bid in an auction this week.

Connecticut, with the highest per capita income in the country, is staring down a projected $5.1 billion two-year budget hole and looking for options other than raising taxes on its wealthy residents.

The Trump administration took the first step toward renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, plunging into a battle that pits some Republicans and industry supporters of the pact against Democrats and some of the president’s most ardent backers.

Most startups fail. Learning the the ‘why’ behind the numbers is crucial to being among the thriving few.