Spending on construction and renovation: thirty-seven percent of K12 districts plan to purchase construction- and renovation-related products and services.
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PAKISTAN'S CAPITAL SPENDING RISES.
Pakistani capital expenditure will rise as industries and the government expand their budgets for 2004. The strongest growth segment will be infrastructure spending, where strong medium- to long-term growth is likely in housing and public works projects. Pakistan suffers from a severe shortage of low-cost housing and that is...

Construction activity down for March, up for first quarter of 2002.
The value of new construction starts dropped 11 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $468.9 billion, according to the F.W. Dodge Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. Both single family housing and public works fell from the strong contracting reported at the beginning of 2002, while...

Essential economics. (Out in front: this month's critical trends and topics).
Monthly Construction Contract Value Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rates, in Millions June 2002 May 2002 % Change Nonresidential Building $160,231 $154,050 +4 Residential Building 237,389 237,376 0 Nonbuilding Construction 115,262 99,522 +16 TOTAL CONSTRUCTION $512,882 $490,948 +4 * The value of new construction starts dropped 8 percent in...

Metals shine on US data, fall in inventories.
Byline: Ratna Ganguli KOLKATA: Better than expected US economic data, sudden fall in London Metal Exchange (LME) inventories and opportunistic buying are expected to lift the market sentiment in some base metal counters, although the base metal complex on the whole is expected to demonstrate a mixed...

Construction economy looks good, but down slightly from torrid 2007.
BOSTON -- Nonresidential construction looks good for 2008, but slightly slower than the torrid pace of 2007. Jim Haughey, Ph.D., chief economist for Reed Construction Data, says the 16.7% growth in 2007 in the dollar value of nonresidential building starts is expected to slow to a still...

US employment data point to cooler growth, steady rates.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (Reuters) -- US employers added 128,000 workers to their payrolls in August, evidence of a cooler -- but still solid -- pace of economic growth that could let the Federal Reserve hold interest rates steady. The closely watched Labor Department report, issued on Friday...

National economic report.
The 2004 presidential campaign is in full swing amid economic news favorable to the Bush camp. Inflation is in check, construction spending and manufacturing are up, interest rates are at 45-year lows, Wall Street finally likes what it sees and a war dividend is coming due. With...

PCA forecasts decline this year. (CemenTrends: news from the cement industry).
This is the first article in a two-part series that will appear in Pit & Quarry.--Ed. U.S. construction spending is expected to decline modestly during 2003. Even though the outlook suggests a third consecutive year of decline in construction spending, it is important to keep in mind...

District buying power 2007: first of a series: research reveals enormous K12 purchasing power.
IN SPITE OF POPULAR ATTENTION DIRECTED TO budget cuts in K12 school districts, the reality is that aggregate school spending across the nation increases steadily from year to year and will continue to do so. Furthermore, school buying power is becoming increasingly centralized, rather than less, and administrators are...