capital spending
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The database and AI cloud-computing company reported strong quarterly results late Wednesday, but its ballooning capital spending and growing debt levels spooked investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
The market’s expectations for capital spending among so-called hyperscalers in 2027 are way too conservative.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
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
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
A major downturn in the Swiss economy should still be avoided, as consumer and capital spending have picked up and will keep the economy moving in 1999.
From The 1999 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency