Colorado business confidence healthy, stable, says CU Boulder index

BOULDER — The optimism of Colorado business leaders increased slightly ahead of the second quarter of 2017 and is expected to remain stable into the third quarter of the year, according to a report released Monday by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

The Leeds Business Confidence Index shows an uptick of 3.1 points from last quarter, with an overall reading of 63.4. This is up by 8 points from one year ago.

Expectations measured positive — at 50 or higher — for all of the metrics within the index, including the national…