Investors eye firms’ spending over earnings


WALL Street is already looking past what’s expected to be Corporate America’s slowest gain in quarterly earnings in a year, instead focusing on a number that rarely captures the limelight: capital expenditures (capex).

As President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariff regime keeps investors wondering what comes next, they’re turning their attention to the pace at which the companies that propel the economy are spending to build their businesses.

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