They are refinancing where they must, but not borrowing to drive investment or M&A [mergers and acquisitions] activity.

The ability of cable television infrastructure to carry converged services has driven investment in fiber optic networks by telecommunications operators.

The state is creating markets that drive investment in low-carbon technologies.

Since the early 1990s, the PRP has been responsible for driving inward investment and business growth.

Suddenly, conspiracies were being seen as ways of fleecing consumers and producers of money that could be better used to drive spending and investment.

The Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, predicts that long-term rates, which drive investment and thus growth, could decline by two full percentage points.

And I think, if the economic reports continue to worsen, that it's going to drive investment in those areas.

We must be more flexibility-friendly, not setting down rigid regulations and rules which drive economic investment out of the European Union, sending it to low-cost labour areas.

That is why the Commission, in its proposal, not only maintained but reinforced the competition-based approach to regulation as competitive markets drive new investment.

"The elites, the top sliver of the income scale, can drive consumption and investment forward while the bottom half slogs along," he said.