Stimulus Lifts Construction Spending Unexpectedly in August

by Joseph Lazzaro on Oct.01, 2010, under Towing

One month doesn’t make a trend, but builders in the beleaguered U.S. construction sector will take any good news they can get, and in August they received some: an unexpected 0.4% increase in construction spending, led by government-funded projects.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected construction spending to fall 0.4% in August.

However, the gain was tempered somewhat by a revised 1.4%…

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