capital spending

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A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Friday’s market selloff punished an array of sectors tied to the capital spending boom—but some are more exposed than others.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

In an analysis published Thursday, Perkins notes that there was a time last year when investors began to worry about the sustainability of AI capital spending, asking whether the potential returns justify the vast expenditures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Investors are cheering on capital spending so big that it moves the economy without knowing quite how it will make money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Consequently the successful competitor in the race for supremacy develops productivity, accumulates wealth, expands capital spending, enlarges the scope of the arts, thereby augmenting the city's attractiveness to business enterprise and migrants from the hinterland.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott