Dun & Bradstreet On Corporate Instability In 2019 It was a record year for corporate and small business optimism, but new data from Dun & Bradstreet carries some bad news: corporate delinquencies are up, and business failures rates rose in Q3 for some industries, too. D&B Senior Director of Economics Nalanda Matia told PYMNTS her outlook for corporate finance in 2019 amid changing trade relationships, federal interest rate hikes and a broader climate of political uncertainty. |