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Survey: LI business confidence slips
Photo credit: Newsday , 2004 / Ken Spencer
Long Island businesses say they are less confident about the local economy than they were a year ago, according to a survey released Thursday.
Asked to rate their confidence in the Long Island economy on a scale of one to 10, the average was 4.9 compared to 5.1 a year earlier. Despite the overall confidence level, businesses were more optimistic in several key areas.
“Most of the statistics...