MDM’s Mike Hockett shares new Census Bureau data that illustrates the gap between wholesale distributors’ reported vs. “real” revenues over the past year.
In the wake of another — and bigger — Fed rate hike aimed to tame inflation, we examine a number of economic indicators from the past two weeks.
The ABC analysis comes around the same time it was announced that construction prices rose 2.3% in May compared to the previous month.
Construction prices rose 2.3% in May compared to the previous month, and construction input prices are up 21.4% from a year ago.
April 2022 orders of manufacturing technology totaled $513.4 million, the second month in a row surpassing half a billion dollars.
U.S. manufacturing corporations’ seasonally adjusted after-tax profits in the first quarter of 2022 totaled $261.9 billion.
Will conditions get better? Worse? Stay the same? Here’s what distributors are saying.
The Census Bureau says the international trade deficit was $125.3 billion in March, up from $106.3 billion in February.
Privately‐owned housing units authorized by building permits last month approximately 1.87,000, 0.4% above the revised February rate.
The rising cost of energy sent wholesale prices up a record 11.2% last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International released its monthly report, showing 25.1% average annual sales growth.
American Supply Association members who responded to a survey said median sales increased 27% in February versus the same month a year ago.
