11.   Analysts watch their sales to gauge of industrial output, consumer demand, and business investment.

12.   And business investment must revive to decisively end the recession.

13.   And many of those same states offer tax abatement and incentive programs at the local level to encourage business investment.

14.   And since business investment plays a key role in stimulating the economy, when corporations back off from expanding, it can cause or prolong a recession.

15.   And the overhang of excess capacity is likely to keep business investment depressed for years.

16.   Anything that clouds consumer confidence or impedes business investment will just delay recovery.

17.   As a result, consumer spending could be weak even as business investment recovers, some economists say.

18.   As this happens, economic growth will slow in tandem with declines in consumption and business investment.

19.   At home, consumers are glum, unemployment is rising and business investment has sagged.

20.   Bangladesh also seeks business investment for oil and natural gas exploration, the construction of gas pipelines and the development of its computer software industry.