CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Rhode Island executive director of commercial banking, said Rhode Island companies appear more optimistic about the economy than business leaders nationally, based on results of a new national survey./ COURTESY JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
PROVIDENCE – Business leaders’ economic outlook has plunged to historic lows amid inflation and supply chain woes, according to a survey from JPMorgan Chase & Co. published on Monday. Just one in five business leaders who responded to the 2022 Business Leaders Outlook Pulse survey expressed optimism about the national economy in the year ahead…