An all-time-high 64% of small business owners approve of how President Trump is doing his job, a survey that regularly gauges small business sentiments reports.

The rating is up from 60% in the final quarter of 2019 and 56% a year ago in the first quarter of 2019, according to the results of a quarterly CNBC/SurveyMonkey survey that polls small-business owners nationwide.

Respondents cited a phase one trade deal with China and favorable regulatory conditions for their strong approval of Trump.

Small business owners are increasingly applauding the work of President Donald Trump.

Sixty-four percent of small business owners approve of Trump’s job performance as president, according to a survey released Thursday by CNBC and Survey Monkey. That was a four-point gain from the prior survey taken at the end of 2019.

That is the highest approval rating since the quarterly survey was launched in 2017.

CNBC appeared to put up incorrect pictures for both 2020 presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during Monday morning’s “Squawk Box.”

The show was discussing 2020 candidates’ fourth quarter fundraising and put up a list of various candidates with their names, pictures and the amount of money each raised.

The Supreme Court on Monday sent back to a lower court a case involving an Oregon bakery whose owners claim the state drove them out of business after they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

In an order, the top court scrapped a ruling from the Oregon Court of Appeals in favor of the same-sex couple. The bakery’s owners, who refused to make the cake due to religious beliefs, said state fines pushed them out of business.

Has the liberal media ever met a Democrat it couldn't characterize as a centrist? Take Barack Obama. He had the most liberal voting record in the Senate. But that didn't stop Politico, for example, from in 2008 publishing "Obama’s steady centrism."

That same kind of false advertising was on display on today's Morning Joe regarding Pete Buttigieg. The panel was gaga over Buttigieg's town hall performance of last night on Fox News, leading Joe Scarborough to declare:

The news business is in trouble, and overt displays of media bias of the kind we witnessed Wednesday are a big reason.

Critics across the political spectrum say the CNBC moderators deserve a big raspberry for Wednesdays debate performance which has been so universally panned its become a story as big as the debate itself.

Tonight's Republican candidate forum will primarily be remembered for two things, I suspect: (1) CNBC's truly awful moderation, and (2) the beginning of the end of Jeb Bush's presidential campaign.

Desperate to stand out as time begins to run short the Republican presidential candidates lashed out at one another Wednesday in their third presidential debate with Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush taking aim at the new generation of anti-establishment Republicans who have eclipsed them in the polls.