Home construction might be flagging, but industrial construction--office buildings, schools, airports, bridges--is poised for growth.
In the first five months of the year, industrial construction output expanded at rates above 4 percent.
But separate data this week from the American Institute of Architects suggests that design for future projects, including commercial and industrial construction, is slowing.
The reason: Some of our data and anecdotes come from industrial or construction site events.
Following the global economic recession in 2008, European countries have been grappling with weakness in industrial and construction activities, which are major steel demand drivers.
And speaking of generators, Generac Holdings (GNRC), also in the motif, is one of the largest manufacturers of generators in the U.S. serving residential, commercial, industrial and construction markets.
Strong FAI is bullish for commodities demand as increased industrial activity and construction gobbles up more cement, iron ore, crude oil and copper.
Disappointing figures on industrial production and construction in November have added to fears that the UK economy contracted in the last quarter of 2012.
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis that in the United States was marked by widespread unemployment, near halts in industrial production and construction, and an 89 percent decline in stock prices.
In addition, the long-term growth factors for Caterpillar remain intact as rising world population, prosperity and urbanization will increase demand for energy and resources, promoting growth across its industrial businesses: construction, mining and power systems.
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Meanwhile, full-year sales of heavy-duty trucks, which are driven principally by industrial production, construction and infrastructure spending, are only expected to reach 700, 000 to 750, 000 units this year, down 15 percent to 20 percent from 2011.
Chung Ju Yung, Hyundai's 83-year-old founder, cannot know whether it was wise to force his brother to give up an 8.3% stake in Hyundai Motor in exchange for 37.7% of Hyundai Industrial Development and Construction, South Korea's largest builder of apartments.
In recent months, global economic concerns have slowed aluminum demand in the construction, industrial products and packaging sectors.
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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the consumer price index, real earnings, new residential construction, industrial production and capacity utilization, and the IMF world economic outlook.
It is quite possible that the economy is stronger than the official statistics suggest: in fact, we already know that construction and industrial output were stronger in June than the ONS expected when they came up with their first estimate for the change in GDP in the second quarter.
On May 1st Germany must also open up to eastern construction firms and industrial-cleaning companies.
His many other inventions -- including explosive materials like the smokeless powder Ballistite -- were used for militaristic, mining, construction and other industrial purposes.
Restrictions will be relaxed in sectors as diverse as civil aviation, construction development, industrial parks, petroleum and natural gas, commodity exchanges, credit-information services and mining.
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They are working on everything from road and metro construction to an industrial clustering program, export training and information, business incubators and changing governmental industrial policy.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, new residential construction, and industrial production and capacity utilization.
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Bank of China, China Construction Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China all revealed their exposure to the US subprime market recently but added that the damage would be limited.
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At the end of the day, Sandy may end up being beneficial for the U.S. economy, pushing indicators like construction spending, industrial production, and retail sales above their pre-disaster trend-lines over the next few quarters, according to Goldman Sachs.
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In Hong Kong, Industrial and Commercial Bank and China Construction Bank (HK: 0939) both opened 1.7% lower.
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Al-Sanea has made most of his fortune investing in construction and finance, particularly by securing contracting deals for the construction of residential and industrial buildings near Saudi Arabia's Al-Khobar region.
The remaining was attributable to increased volume and higher price realizations across all industrial businesses of the company namely, construction, mining and power systems.
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Yet giant industrial bases of massive scale are under construction.
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The company makes more than 5, 000 products, which are used by virtually all major industries and markets including transportation, technology, medical, agricultural, energy, telecommunications, packaging, consumer, commercial construction, home building, industrial manufacturing and marine.
Its products are used in the automotive, construction, commercial, transportation and industrial-machinery markets.
The need to sustain such processes has led to major new construction projects at all of the industrial sites involved in nuclear weapons work.
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