Capital Spending Net Rising Index
The Graph of the Week comes from the April 2009 NABE Industry Survey, and shows the Employment Net Rising Index. From the survey:
Firms showed slightly less trepidation about future capital spending. In January, no firm planned to increase capital spending by more than 10% over the ensuing 12 months. This quarter, 6% of firms expected to raise capital spending by more than 10% and 21% of firms planned an increase of some kind over the next year.
NABE members can read the whole report, and download the spreadsheet containing the data, here. There is a summary available to the public.