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.
James Dorn details how Fastenal’s digital transformation story has kept it ahead of the curve of customer demands.
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.
The outlook for 2022 remains bright, but government efforts to restrain inflation, global instability and continued supply chain challenges seem to shift the variables almost daily.
