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

“Sentiment has troughed,” said Morgan Stanley equity analyst Brian Nowak, citing lower visibility and confidence in its ability to turn AI investments into shareholder returns and its staggering rate of capital spending.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

First-quarter private capital spending data released last week showed companies spent a record 8.7 billion Australian dollars, equivalent to US$6.25 billion, building data centers and purchasing equipment to fill them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Alphabet’s large equity offering reflects the big size of its capital spending needs, which it said in its first quarter earnings call would total $180 billion to $190 billion in 2026.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 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