| 11. | "Inventory investment is still subdued, " said Carl Palash, chief economist at MCM MoneyWatch in New York.
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| 12. | That reflected stronger exports and inventory investment.
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| 13. | In order to build inventories up to an appropriate level, firms engage in positive intended inventory investment.
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| 14. | Not surprisingly, World Company has achieved a gross-margin return on inventory investments of more than 300 percent.
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| 15. | Either positive or negative intended inventory investment can coincide with either positive or negative unintended inventory investment.
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| 16. | That reflected stronger exports and inventory investment, and a smaller increase in consumer spending than first estimated.
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| 17. | Either positive or negative intended inventory investment can coincide with either positive or negative unintended inventory investment.
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| 18. | If customers buy more than expected, inventories unexpectedly decline and unintended inventory investment turns out to have been negative.
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| 19. | The change from the agency's original estimate of a 5.6 percent growth rate reflected stronger exports and inventory investment.
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| 20. | Aside from a rebound in inventory investment, these include the end of the retrenchment under way in high-tech investment.
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