April 1, 2011

State business confidence index spikes

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BOULDER – Colorado businesses are looking to hire as their managers are professing growing optimism about their prospects, a survey conducted by the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business found.

The school released results of its quarterly business confidence index Friday. The Leeds Business Confidence Index found that executives have the highest level of optimism since the second quarter of 2006, and for the first time in months that optimism is leading to plans to hire new workers.

The index’s numerical value hit 56.8, a dramatic increase from the index of 48.6 when the report was last released at the start…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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