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Heading into 2006, the fundamentals for business spending in equipment and software look solid. Firms will need to invest more to meet demand.

Stephen Stanley

We're expecting a solid year for equipment and software spending. Businesses seem to have very optimistic plans for investment in 2006.

Michael Englund

If American business learned one thing from the past recession, it was to be very cautious about future spending for new equipment, infrastructure, inventories, and payroll. Now, in a healthier economy, as some businesses lack the capacity -- and workers -- to meet demand, it's that earlier caution that may be fueling a readiness to invest.

We've seen investment in capacity go up quite a bit and we had a scare this summer with wireless. So you can make a case that the business is in trouble. We try to focus on slightly longer-term fundamentals. The relationship between spending and revenue in this business is still reasonable. Visibility is still good. Pricing is good. Let's not forget, wireless handset demand is growing 50 percent over year-on-year. So with stocks down a bit and the fundamentals still solid, we though it was time to declare the mid-cycle correction over.

Firms have cut back on their capital spending budgets to the point where some of them are not even replacing worn-out equipment. It's been quite a dramatic pullback, and in some sense there's some pent-up demand out there for capital equipment.

The rate of spending is less than you would have expected given the typical business cycle. Companies have made a lot of money, but if you look at equipment and software spending, this cycle is below the pace of the past three or four cycles.

Businesses are starting to ramp up spending on new equipment and technology and consumer spending looked relatively strong in January, despite predictions that they were tapped out. This may mean fewer job cuts in the months ahead as companies try to meet the steady demand for their products.

John Challenger

There is a lot of momentum in this economy. Consumer spending is continuing to march along, business spending is solid and you have a pick up in foreign demand.

Michael Gregory

Overall, the U.S. labor market is off to a very solid start in 2006 as strong business fundamentals continue to boost employer demand for workers, creating more job opportunities and driving the unemployment rate down to well below 5 percent. Demand for workers in the U.S. remains elevated at the outset of the year, while the online migration of help-wanted advertising continues at a rapid pace. The Index's findings for February clearly indicate greater confidence among employers throughout much of the country, largely due to the underlying strength of the economy. This is encouraging news for job seekers and bodes well for this year's class of college graduates as they begin their search for employment.

Steve Pogorzelski

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This quarter was a great way to kick-off 2006. We attribute our success to our ability to meet the rising demand for software services that help online marketers and IT managers more effectively manage and deliver their Web sites. Throughout 2006, we expect this momentum to continue as we debut additional services and integration with strategic partners while upholding our unparalleled standard for customer service.

Activity in the manufacturing sector picked up early in the second quarter, in line with strong underlying fundamentals in the economy and stronger overseas demand. We can look forward to solid overall output growth in the second quarter of 2006.

Accounting software is the first strategic business application that many small firms purchase, making it an important on-ramp for other business applications, which need to integrate with the accounting solution, and a first step towards higher end financial solutions. Intuit has long been the undisputed leader in the small business accounting space with its QuickBooks product line. But Microsoft, which has a solid base in the mid-market financials arena, wants to build volume in the small business accounting market.

Business capital spending is coming on strong and the timing of these equipment purchases could not be better. Business spending will take up the slack as the housing slowdown cools consumers' appetites.

The demand for all of the networking gear and Internet infrastructure equipment is running way ahead of expectations. These companies cannot produce enough product to meet the demand, and that's their biggest challenge right now. Demand for the Internet data traffic is still growing around 300 percent per year. The Internet is still doubling in size every 98 days. All of these things that had shaken investor confidence over the last several months is a non-event. The fundamental business line is 100 percent intact.

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