61. A prolonged decline in stock prices can reduce consumer spending and capital investment as investors become poorer. 62. Absurdly low interest rates have led to excessive capital investment. 63. Adding to investor concern, Polysindo is proceeding with capital investments that will boost production and exports in a bid to fatten profit margins. 64. Brazilian bonds are expected to continue their upward trend as the Brazilian stock market continues to soar to record highs and foreign investors increase direct capital investment. 65. Business managers uniformly revised up their capital investment plans for this fiscal year. 66. Bush says he wants Texas to be known as a state where capital investment is welcome. 67. Businesses will also see their own borrowing costs decline, encouraging capital investment. 68. But aircraft deliveries, another form of capital investment, fell in the third quarter, and they may bounce back in the fourth. 69. But analysts said financial damage to the Bank of Scotland would be limited if it pulled out of the deal, because it involves no capital investment or jobs. 70. But he and other analysts said that the declines reflect increased automation, higher productivity and increased capital investment in manufacturing. |
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