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capital expenditure

NOUN
fixed asset expense
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President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet next week, or in the Middle East — the market’s best hope for big upside is a peak in hyperscaler capital expenditure, the strategists say.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

Investors are concerned that a pause in the technology’s advance would put the brakes on the boom in capital expenditure that has driven equity markets across the globe in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Yet capital expenditure among German companies remains on the decline, with economists pointing to a lack of reform in the country’s complex regulatory system as one factor holding back investment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Right now, annual data center capital expenditure lands roughly at $800 billion, but that’s expected to increase to $1.8 trillion in 2050.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

According to the census returns of 1895, the total mileage was 496 m., representing a capital expenditure of $84,044,581 paper.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various




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