How to Use capital goods in a Sentence

capital goods

plural noun
  • Monday morning's durable goods orders and core capital goods report showed strong growth from the prior month.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Shipments of motor vehicles and parts fell sharply as well, while shipments of defense capital goods rose.
    — Amara Omeokwe, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • By September, the value of core capital goods shipments, as well as orders, hit a six-year high.
    — Vince Golle, Bloomberg.com, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In the case of a Harris win, the strategist said the sectors to play are metals, aerospace and defense as well as capital goods.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune Europe, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Top sub-sectors were household products, retail and software while semis, insurance and capital goods were the worst.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Top sub-sectors were energy, banks, and capital goods while telecom services, household products, and media were the worst.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Those include construction, business capital goods and consumer durables.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • When capital goods are finished and ready to ship, then the transportation system has trouble delivering them to customers.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Amazon also saw a 13 percent drop in emissions stemming from capital goods last year, as noticed by Bloomberg.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, autos, technical hardware, and capital goods were among the worst-performing.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Business spending on new capital goods is coming back nicely from the hiatus imposed on the economy by the pandemic strictures.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Although business leaders are not, in most cases, consciously trying to help workers, their capital goods orders are leading to higher wages.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Exports of vehicles, consumer goods, industrial supplies and capital goods all rose.
    — Harriet Torry, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But most of the firms clustered there focus on fast-turnaround, incremental innovations, not on big-ticket capital goods or high-tech products.
    — Pankaj Ghemawat, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016
  • Core capital goods shipments are used to calculate equipment spending in the gross domestic product measurement.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The rise in imports reflected a jump in sales of capital goods, including civilian aircraft and computers, and ramped up spending on food, feeds and beverages.
    — Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft are running more than ten percent above 2019 levels.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Imports rose for consumer goods, such as cellphones and pharmaceuticals, and capital goods such as semiconductors and aircraft.
    — Bryan Mena, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • All sub-sectors were negative except for media, led lower by diversified finance, food/consumer staples, and capital goods.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The industrialists who set up shop here are exempt from income tax for their first five years of business and absolved from duties or taxes on the import of capital goods and construction supplies.
    — Bill Donahue, Bloomberg.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • All the while, restrictions on bringing capital goods into the country continue to exacerbate the already serious lack of factory machinery and farm equipment.
    — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2018
  • On the other hand, higher shipments of non-military capital goods excluding aircraft probably translate to gains in business-equipment spending in GDP.
    — Sho Chandra, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Data on new orders for capital goods show a giant rise as the recovery from Covid-19 took hold, after a much smaller fall than usual during the recession—excluding the volatile orders of aircraft, which fell sharply last year.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson said in a March 31 note to clients that the most tariff-sensitive sectors are consumer discretionary, tech hardware and capital goods.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Goldman Sachs wrote in a note this week that capital goods will experience the largest increase in representation, and semis and semi-equipment will continue to carry the largest weight in the index (17%) followed by tech hardware (10%).
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 May 2026
  • The bank retained an overweight recommendation on North Asia, favoring South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and China's domestic A-share market, alongside technology hardware, capital goods and banks.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 June 2026

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