Capital spending for next year is being cut by $500 million.

The Republican bill calls for new capital spending of $3.91 billion.

However, as we have seen, central government has always had power to control capital spending and still does.

In 2004 alone, the company's capital spending is expected to total $2.5 billion.

Capital spending makes up about 15 percent of Japan's economy.

Capital spending makes up about 15 percent of the Japanese economy.

So far, the evidence is that capital spending remains strong, he said.

But special factors made 1992 a good year for capital spending.

Less than half of their cash, or 46 percent, went into capital spending.

Capital spending will also be reduced from £600m this year to £400m each of the following four years.

Eight days after the terrorist attacks, 87 percent of the companies said it was too soon to decide whether to cut their investment spending.

Consider first the effects of an autonomous increase in investment spending.

Fixed-asset investment spending rose 26 percent to about $700 billion.

Can anything be done to rev up their investment spending?

This explains why investment spending is more volatile than consumption.

This will start slowing investment spending and the rest of the economy soon, he said.

Some experts continue to question whether China is too reliant on investment spending.

"Businesses are betting on the future with increased investment spending."

"For every percentage point increase in interest rates, investment spending is depressed by 2 to 3 percent."

By contrast, the cable television industry's investment spending is running roughly $1 billion a year.