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<\/a> We\u2019re are an increasingly confident lot: <\/strong>The YPO\u2019s 1Q2017 global confidence survey was out last week, and we\u2019ve just gotten around to pulling it out of our slush pile. Globally, business confidence is essentially stable, the survey found, with the big deviations from the trend coming in the Middle East (where executives reported the biggest decline in confidence of any region in this quarter\u2019s survey) and in Africa (also down on last quarter). CEOs in Egypt are bucking the trend, the YPO says, reporting that \u201cEgypt reported a significant gain in confidence \u2026 with a surge in confiden[ce] of 14.9 points to the firmly optimistic territory of 79.4.<\/strong>\u201d You can check out the results of the global poll here<\/a> with a number of cool interactive features, or dive straight into the YPO\u2019s analysis of the MENA results<\/a>. YPO bills its survey as \u201cthe only CEO economic sentiment indicator to span the globe on a quarterly basis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re are an increasingly confident lot: The YPO\u2019s 1Q2017 global confidence survey was out last week, and we\u2019ve just gotten around to pulling it out of our slush pile. 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