Article: Analysts Scout for Business Spending Needed to Kick-Start Economic Recovery.

By Thomas Content, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 23--The long-awaited surge in business spending, needed to prop up a wobbly U.S. economic recovery, has resembled an oasis in the desert.

Companies curtailed spending years ago when a recession was brewing, then slashed spending again after the September 2001 terrorist attacks. And they refrained from placing orders amid uncertainty over war with Ira....

Recent signs -- from economic reports to surveys to orders at factory automation giant Rockwell Automation Inc. -- point toward a bigger splash of spending on the horizon.

But given the extent ...

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