Driven by rising construction activity, an opinion survey of contractors, fleet managers, equipment dealers and rental shops is showing a generally positive outlook for the U.S. construction equipment market in the next year."Optimism is at a twenty-year high," says John Crum, head of the construction group at Wells Fargo, which conducts an annual forecast of equipment industry attitudes. The forecast's Optimism Quotient [OQ] is its most prominent metric, tabulating how members of the equipment industry feel about the near-future of the business in their region.The survey asks respondents whether they think the next year of their local non-residential construction will be better or worse than the previous year. A reading over 100 is considered highly optimistic, and 2018 jumped to 133. It's a far cry fromthe depths of the recession in 2009, when the Wells Fargo OQ was only 42.
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机译：在建筑活动增加的推动下，对承包商，车队经理，设备经销商和租赁商店的意见调查显示，明年美国建筑设备市场总体上前景乐观。 r n “乐观已达二十年高，”富国银行建筑小组负责人约翰·克鲁姆（John Crum）说，该组织对设备行业的态度进行年度预测。预测的乐观商（OQ）是其最突出的指标，用于列出设备行业成员对该地区业务的近期前景的看法。 r n该调查询问受访者是否认为明年的本地非住宅建设将比上年好或坏。读数超过100被认为是高度乐观的，而2018年跃升至133。与2009年经济衰退的深度相去甚远，当时的富国银行OQ只有42。
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