capital goods

NOUN

materials used in the production of goods

Synonyms

WEAK

assets available funds available means available resources black-ink items capital capitalization cash flow financial resources liquid assets pluses producer goods stock in trade

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capital goods

But exports of intermediate inputs and capital goods increased by more than $175 billion from the year prior, helping push China’s trade surplus to a record $1.2 trillion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

For the first time in decades, Germany now imports more advanced capital goods from China than it exports there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

Nondefense capital goods orders ex-aircraft, or core goods orders, have continued to strengthen in Q2.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

"With demand for the AI build out still elevated, we expect capital goods imports will remain solid this year," US economist Grace Zwemmer of Oxford Economics told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Men come and go, but "labor"—a mass of working humanity—abides; and so capital goods come and go, but a stock of them abides, kept up by perpetual replacement.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark