{"id":35752,"date":"2012-11-19T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_investment_by_u-s-_companies_falls_off_a_cliff\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T17:30:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:30:01","slug":"wsj_investment_by_u-s-_companies_falls_off_a_cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35752","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Investment by U.S. Companies Falls Off a Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Half of the nation&#8217;s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next, according to a review by The Wall Street Journal of securities filings and conference calls.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, business investment in equipment and software\u201d\u201da measure of economic vitality in the corporate sector\u201d\u201dstalled in the third quarter for the first time since early 2009. Corporate investment in new buildings has declined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324595904578123593211825394.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery. Half of the nation&#8217;s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35752\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,589,149,119,617,616,151,667,618,587,669,584,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-globalization","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}