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AI Spending Boosts Factory Orders

Core capital-goods data points to business investment resilience

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Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 9:20:00 PM EDT
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Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 9:20:00 PM EDT
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AI Spending Boosts Factory Orders
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WASHINGTON — A surge in artificial intelligence-related investment is helping support U.S. factory orders, offering evidence that business spending remains resilient even as companies face higher energy costs, tariff effects and uncertainty over interest rates.

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What This Means

AI-related capital-goods strength matters because it shows business investment remains resilient. Data-center and cloud infrastructure spending may support manufacturing and growth, but the economy could become more dependent on whether large technology companies keep spending aggressively.