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Description of chart 4 – Business investment in non-residential structures and in machinery and equipment

The title of the graph is "Business investment in non-residential structures and in machinery and equipment."
This is a combined line chart.
There are in total 21 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at -20 and ends at 15 with ticks every 5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "quarterly % change, chained (2007) dollars."
The units of the horizontal axis are quarters by year from third quarter 2007 to third quarter 2012.
The title of series 1 is " Real business investment in non-residential structures."
This series is a line chart.
The minimum value is -12.8 occurring in first quarter 2009.
The maximum value is 9.1 occurring in first quarter 2010.
The title of series 2 is " Real business investment in machinery and equipment."
This series is a column clustered chart.
The minimum value is -15.4 occurring in first quarter 2009.
The maximum value is 6.7 occurring in second quarter 2011.

Business investment in non-residential structures and in machinery and equipment, quarterly % change, chained (2007) dollars
  Real business investment in non-residential structures Real business investment in machinery and equipment
third quarter 2007 0.4 0.3
fourth quarter 2007 0.3 3.4
first quarter 2008 6.6 0.4
second quarter 2008 1.5 -1.2
third quarter 2008 0.5 -0.7
fourth quarter 2008 -2.5 -7.7
first quarter 2009 -12.8 -15.4
second quarter 2009 -6.9 -2.8
third quarter 2009 -1.1 5.0
fourth quarter 2009 0.7 1.3
first quarter 2010 9.1 5.8
second quarter 2010 4.2 4.2
third quarter 2010 5.3 2.0
fourth quarter 2010 5.3 1.5
first quarter 2011 1.9 3.2
second quarter 2011 -2.1 6.7
third quarter 2011 2.7 -3.2
fourth quarter 2011 2.7 2.4
first quarter 2012 2.2 1.0
second quarter 2012 3.4 0.4
third quarter 2012 -1.1 0.1