Business confidence dips

Colorado business leaders’ confidence has dipped slightly heading into the fourth quarter compared to three months ago but is still above where it was last year at this time.

That’s according to the latest Leeds Business Confidence Index released Wednesday by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

The LBCI overall reading of 59.5 heading into the fourth quarter is down from 61.2 entering the third quarter. But expectations measured positive – at 50 or higher – for all of the individual metrics in the index for the 12^th quarter in a row. Those include national economy, state economy, industry…