Manufacturing Employment, New Orders & Production Fall Fastest Since Apr-Aug 2009 by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2020 • 91 Comments An ugly report. How will it impact the overall economy?
Turmoil in the Heavy-Truck Market as Seen by a Truck Dealer by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2019 • 72 Comments “This, I think, was the Big One, where the fleet valuations fell out and took this company out.”
US Freight Shipments Fall Below 2014 Level. Answers Emerge by Wolf Richter • Dec 19, 2019 • 110 Comments It’s not the consumer.
When Losses Don’t Matter: How Japanese Conglomerate Mitsubishi Blows Billions on a Jet Nobody Really Wants by MC01 • Dec 7, 2019 • 91 Comments On paper, this looked like a no-brainer.
What’s Driving the Decline in the Goods-Based Sector, After the Boom of 2018? by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2019 • 74 Comments And a special word on apparel sales, as a sign of our times.
US Targets Wage-Repression Model in Mexico, Demands Inspections, Industry Has a Cow by Nick Corbishley • Dec 5, 2019 • 51 Comments NAFTA 2.0 gets complicated for US & global manufacturers, particularly automakers.
US Manufacturing Stuck in Dour Mood, After the Boom Last Year by Wolf Richter • Dec 2, 2019 • 55 Comments Worries abound, weakness persists, but some aspects and sectors tick up.
US Freight Shipments Skid Below 2014 Level, Hit by the Slowdown in Industrial, Manufacturing & Construction by Wolf Richter • Nov 15, 2019 • 76 Comments Efforts to frontrun tariffs was part of it. But now, there’s more to it.
What Heavy Trucks Are Saying by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2019 • 30 Comments “I do believe that in North America it is a cyclical downturn”: Cummins COO.
Manufacturing in the US vs. China, Germany, Japan, South Korea by Wolf Richter • Nov 1, 2019 • 76 Comments US barely Cleanest Dirty Shirt among the manufacturing giants.
