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SMEs shut their doors

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If you’ve been reading the Tip Sheet, you already knew Q1 was rough, especially for SMEs.
Now there are numbers to back it up:

Corporate registration data shows over 460,000 firms permanently closed in Q1.

That’s brutal. And it probably underestimates the extent of firm closures.

A number of...