Spending on equipment and software fell 5 percent, while investment in new buildings rose.

He will also know that manufacturing investment actually rose in the third quarter of last year.

Compared to the 1980s, investment in film production rose dramatically.

Total private investment rose 3 percent from 2000 to 2004, according to the central bank.

Over all, they will spend more than $4 billion this year, and their investments are rising every quarter.

But even so, investment rose at a torrid 27.9 percent rate for the last 12 months.

In fact, during the first year of the Reagan recovery residential investment rose 46 percent.

His investments also had risen to the mark of $100 000.

An investment in the full list of Dow stocks would have risen to just $177,722.

Foreign direct investment, never very popular in Japan, is rising.