Index: Confident Mass. employers expecting strong recovery
By State House News Service After a surge in March, confidence among businesses in Massachusetts took a tiny step backward in April but analysts said firms have their eyes on a robust recovery over the next six months. The Associated Industries of Massachusetts' monthly confidence index had been climbing strongly since December but shed 0.2 points in April. At 60.7 on a scale of 0 to 100, the index sits "comfortably in optimistic territory" and is 22.5 points higher than its reading a year ago, AIM said. The sub-index that measures overall business conditions at the time of the ...