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2 weeks ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Melanie Nolen
After a season of deep tariff and trade uncertainty, America’s CEOs are betting the volatility will be short-lived and that by fall businesses—and the U.S. economy—will have a clearer path ahead. Those are the key takeaways from Chief Executive’s latest CEO Confidence Index survey of 277 U.S. CEOs fielded June 3 and 4.
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1 month ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Dan Bigman |Melanie Nolen
Wall Street may have relaxed after the White House announced a 90-day pause in the full implementation of tariffs, but America’s CEOs didn’t.
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1 month ago | 
boardmember.com | Dan Bigman |Melanie Nolen
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1 month ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Melanie Nolen
The Canadian business community is facing significant headwinds amid ongoing trade negotiations with the U.S. and a new cabinet taking office on Parliament Hill. According to our Canada CEO Confidence Index—a quarterly poll of CEOs from around the country on their sentiment for business and what they forecast and plan for the year ahead—business conditions have been trending down since we launched the Index in Q3 of 2024.
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1 month ago | 
boardmember.com | Melanie Nolen
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1 month ago | 
cfoleadership.com | Melanie Nolen
The recent rebound in equity markets, the Fed’s decision to hold rates steady, new trade deals advancing and CEOs’ rising optimism may all be positive indicators for business, but the hundreds of CFOs polled by CFO Leadership May 5-7, as part of our CFO Confidence Index series, aren’t convinced companies will come out unscathed.
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1 month ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Melanie Nolen
For business leaders holding their breath about the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s massive tariff rollout, hopes of potential dealmaking sparked a small rebound in Chief Executive’s May CEO Confidence survey. The 300 CEOs we polled across various sectors May 6 and 7 now rate current business in the U.S. at 5 out of 10, up 9 percent from their April rating of 4.6 / 10.
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2 months ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Dan Bigman |Melanie Nolen
Chief Executive’s April survey of U.S. CEO confidence finds their ratings of current business conditions at the lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic shuttered business in the spring of 2020. Their outlook for the year to come remains stalled at a multi-year low as well. The index, based on U.S. CEOs’ rating of current business conditions on a 1-10 scale where 1 is Poor and 10 is Excellent, dipped to 4.6 from 5.0 in March. It is down 28 percent since the start of 2025.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
boardmember.com | Melanie Nolen
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
chiefexecutive.net | Melanie Nolen
Confidence among Canada’s CEO community fell sharply in March, amid tariff uncertainty with the Trump administration in the U.S. Our forward-looking indicator, which tracks CEOs’ outlook for business 12 months out, declined to 4.8 on a 10-point scale where 1 is Poor and 10 is Excellent. That is 20 percent lower than in January (5.9).
