In April, the business closure rate edged down 0.1 percentage points to 4.5%, after holding steady at 4.6% over the previous three months. The opening rate was 4.6% in April, unchanged from the previous two months. In April, both the opening and the closure rates were 0.1 percentage points below their respective 2015-to-2019 historical averages.
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