US leads 'significant increase' in global economic confidence:

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CNBC - 2/7/2017 - Huileng Tan - Optimism in the U.S. about economic growth is boosting business confidence, a survey of chief executive officers showed. According to YPO, an organization for business leaders, an indicator of U.S. economic confidence reached 64.6 in the fourth quarter of 2016, its largest single-quarter gain in five years from 60.4 in the third quarter. The U.S. boasted the highest confidence ranking among the regions surveyed. Read more @ http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/07/us-leads ... urvey.html