Chief executives haven’t been this confident in their business outlook in three years.
Data out Thursday showed the Conference Board’s measure of CEO confidence increased nine points in the first quarter of 2025 to a reading of 60, its highest level in three years. The Conference Board added that the move above 50 indicates a shift from “cautious optimism” to “confident optimism” among business leaders.
The survey included responses from 134 US CEOs and was conducted between Jan. 27 and Feb. 10.
“The improvement in CEO Confidence in the first quarter of 2025 was significant and broad-based,” Stephanie Guichard, senior economist of global indictors at the Conference Board said in the release “All components of the Measure improved, as CEOs were substantially more optimistic about current economic conditions as well as about future economic conditions—both overall and in…
