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Capital spending has soared in 2018
Talk about an inflection point. Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has put more cash in companies’ coffers, and they have been ramping up spending on their businesses at the fastest pace in years. Capital expenditures — such as spending on factories, equipment and other capital goods — by S&P 500 companies totaled about $167 billion in the first quarter, the fastest pace in seven years and a record for a year’s first quarter.
Higher spending on technology, equipment and facilities could ease worries that S&P 500 companies have reached a peak in their profit growth. The spending could also give the U.S. economy a fresh set of legs, and help extend an expansion now in its ninth year. In addition to capital spending, a solid jobs market, rising corporate profits and healthy industrial production point to the U.S. economy continuing to grow through this year and possibly beyond.
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