How to Use capital goods in a Sentence

capital goods

plural noun

• 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
• Shipments of core capital goods dropped 0.7 percent last month.
  — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• The $5 billion decrease in exports of goods was stoked by a $2.5 billion dropoff in the capital goods category.
  — Matt Ott, Star Tribune, 7 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Top sub-sectors were household products, retail and software while semis, insurance and capital goods were the worst.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The nature of the fall—which was led by demand from outside the eurozone, and for purchases of capital goods—suggests German weakness may be the reflection of a...
  — Nina Adam, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Robust demand for capital goods from businesses, as well as higher prices of energy and food items, have also added to U.S. import bills.
  — Anthony Debarros, WSJ, 8 Feb. 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
• 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
• The trend in non-military capital goods orders underscores how the U.S.-China trade war and slowing growth abroad are weighing on American companies.
  — Reade Pickert, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• April orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft were revised up to a 2.3% gain.
  — Eric Morath, WSJ, 27 June 2018
• Going in the other direction, U.S. exports of food, capital goods and automobiles all declined last month.
  — Theo Francis, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Shipments of core capital goods gained 0.5% last month after increasing 2.1% in January.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Economists estimate the reading for capital goods orders rose 0.5% last month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 21 May 2018
• 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
• Orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, seen as a gauge of the direction of companies’ capital spending, slipped 0.8% in the first decline since April of last year.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, autos, technical hardware, and capital goods were among the worst-performing.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Core capital goods orders — a measure that’s tantamount to business investment — rose a sturdy 0.4% in July.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• The impact of the cooling Chinese economy is a particular concern: Germany, a maker of high-end cars and capital goods, is one of only a few Western economies to have cracked China as an export market.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft are running more than ten percent above 2019 levels.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• In September, orders for core capital goods – a key measure of business investment – topped its pre-pandemic level by 3.4%, Millar says.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2020
• Core capital goods shipments are used to calculate equipment spending in the gross domestic product measurement.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
• Exports of civilian aircraft declined 22.2% last year as exports of industrial supplies and capital goods fell overall.
  — Harriet Torry, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• The element of the report economists home in on to gauge capital spending plans—nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft—slipped 0.1%.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 24 June 2021

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024