Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

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...

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...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and GE Stock

America’s largest public pension fund by assets increased positions in some of its largest stock investments in the third quarter. California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more shares of ...

Tesla Makes Out Better Than Musk If Twitter Files Bankruptcy

What a potential Twitter bankruptcy would mean for Elon Musk isn’t easy to figure out, and it’s harder to sort out how Tesla shareholders would be affected. When running through the likely consequence...

GE Stock Is Flying. Investors Should Be Careful.

This stock market is wild, and it’s been wild for longer than just Thursday’s massive move. Cyclical stocks have been on fire in the fourth quarter. The rally in many beaten-up names, unfortunately, l...

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...

The Future Will Not Have Flying Cars, But Who Needs Them?

Technological and regulatory innovation are driving a boom in aviation that’s an echo of its past. A ‘Spinner’ flying car takes off in a scene from Ridley Scott’s futuristic th...

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...

Ford Expects a Profit Rebound. What Wall Street Is Saying.

Ford Motor expects a big fourth quarter, bouncing back from supply-chain-induced challenges experienced in the third quarter. Wall Street isn’t so sure things will turn as well as the company expects....

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...

Buy Paccar Stock. The Truck Company Can Ride Out a Recession.

Before Steven Spielberg reached blockbuster success with Jaws, he made Duel, about a driver terrorized by a massive tanker truck. The story didn’t end well for the homicidal Peterbilt rig that the dir...

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...

Shortages Have Turned to Gluts. These Stocks Could Benefit.

Shortages have turned into surpluses—and that’s bad news for goods producers and sellers everywhere. Still, there are some companies that could buck the trend. Companies like Nike (ticker: NKE) and Mi...

Tesla Stock Is Too Cheap. It Should Start Buying Back Its Own Shares.

Future Fund Active ETF co-founder Gary Black sent a letter to Tesla board of directors with a recommendation on how to spend some of the company’s growing cash hoard. He wants them to buy back Tesla (...

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...

Breaking Down Barriers Between Engineering And Supply Chain Is Good For Business

As a leader of a fast-growing company, I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve our operational efficiency and to help our customers do the same. And it’s more apparent than ever that a major key...

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...

Good News for Tesla Investors: The Stock Is Now Oversold.

Shares of electric-vehicle leader Tesla have gone through just a brutal stretch lately. It’s been painful for the bulls, but they might be getting some relief soon. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) stock dropped ...

ARK’s Cathie Wood Sounds Used-Car Alarm Again. The Risk Is Still Overstated.

ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood sees a collapse in used-car prices on the horizon. If she’s right, that could mean disaster for auto-finance companies, traditional car makers and dealerships. The good news i...