Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...
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Pivot pressure may rise as manufacturing expectations suffer even as producer prices ease
The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a leading measure of the Consumer price index (CPI), and captures price rises at a wholesale level. On a monthly basis, the PPI registered a rise of 0.2%, below marke...
Why A Manufacturer’s Future Is About More Than What They Make
After several tumultuous years, there’s no doubt the manufacturing industry is going through a … [+] period of reinvention. From the shopfloor to the boardroom, companies must act now to transfo...
Lucid Stock Plunges as Reservations for Cars Drop
Electric-vehicle maker Lucid turned in respectable third-quarter earnings and stuck with its forecast for vehicle shipments this year, but the stock was dropping. Reservations were the issue. Lucid (t...
DuPont Ends Rogers Acquisition. Blame China Regulators.
After a wild series of events, stock in materials giant DuPont rose while shares of DuPont’s almost-merger partner Rogers Corp. plummeted. Here’s what happened: DuPont (ticker: DD) on Tuesday complete...
Apple’s Big Problem Gets Bigger
Apple (AAPL) has been one of the big surprises of the current quarterly earnings season so far. The manufacturer of the iPhone and the iPad managed to thwart the most optimistic forecasts during th...
After Pulling Its SPAC Deal, Startup Bright Machines Raises $100 Million On Factory-Reshoring Trend
Bright Machines microfactories automate electronics manufacturing. Manolo Lopez, Formidable Lior Susan figures snarled supply chains, Covid lockdowns in China and geopolitical pressures give U.S. manu...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.
Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...
Toyota About to Make a Big Change to Challenge Tesla
Toyota (TM) seems set to do an about-face. In the face of the industrywide race toward electric vehicles, the Japanese automaker has boasted of its unique strategy. For Toyota, the world’s sec...
Non-Residential Construction Forecast: Slowing 2023-2024
Construction in New York City (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Non-residential construction will shrink as the economy drops into recession sometime in the next year or so, due both t...
The Power Of Global Partnerships
GENEVA – JUNE 08: Numerous national flags are seen in front of the United Nations Office (UNOG) on … [+] June 8, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images) Getty I...
Tesla Stock Falls. It’s All About China.
Electric vehicle maker Tesla cut prices in China, the largest market for new cars and electric vehicles on the planet. Investors are nervous. Tesla Chinese website on Sunday showed lower prices to buy...
FTSE 100 price forecast after October Flash Manufacturing PMI misses expectations
The United Kingdom has been at the forefront of financial news lately. Political instability created wild fluctuations in the currency and bond markets, making it difficult for investors to foresee th...
Tesla Cuts Prices In China. Bears Are Likely to See Demand Problems.
Electric-vehicle maker Tesla looks to be cutting prices in China, the largest market for new cars and new electric vehicles on the planet. Trading Monday will give investors some idea of how the marke...
Tesla Stock Could Rebound in 3 Months. Here’s What it Would Take.
Elon Musk says that Tesla could someday be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco, combined. First, it needs to get through the next few months. Before Tesla (ticker: TSLA) reported third-quarter earn...
Three Keys For Small Manufacturers To Earn More Grant Money
We continue to see an encouraging stream of headlines about government money and investment in manufacturing. Great news, to be sure, but I’ve heard from more than a few small manufacturers struggling...
Biden administration awards $2.8 billion in grants for electric vehicle battery manufacturing
Workers marry the body structure with the battery pack and the front and rear sub frames as they assemble electric vehicles at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, September 28, 2021. Caitl...
Generac Stock Is Tumbling. Sales Have Slowed, and Inventory Is Piling Up.
The second half of the year isn’t going as well as standby-power company Generac Holdings expected. Channel inventories are hurting sales, and that is crushing shares. Still, there should be brighter ...
Biden awards $2.8 billion for electric vehicle battery manufacturing
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to highlight electric vehicle manufacturing in America, during a visit to the Detroit Auto Show, September 14, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Biden admini...
How To Manage In Manufacturing
PORTAGE, MICHIGAN – DECEMBER 13: Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared … [+] to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant on Decembe...
Polestar Unveils Very Familiar Looking Tesla and Fisker Competitor
Polestar (PSNY) is looking to take on not only electric vehicle giant Tesla (TSLA) in the all-electric SUV market, but also upstart EV maker Fisker (FSR) . The problem, according to some Tesla an...