Index reveals surging confidence

BOULDER — The confidence of business leaders in Colorado has surged going into the second quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index, released April 2 by the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

With waning uncertainty giving way to a stabilizing economy, the second-quarter index posted a reading of 58.1, a sharp increase from last quarter’s 51.3 reading. Expectations measured positive — at 50 or higher — for all of the metrics measured by the index. They include hiring and capital expenditures, the state and national economies, and industry sales and profits.

For the first time,…