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The increase in shipping rates comes amid a slew of changes for UPS in 2023.
Tom Gale and Mike Marks look at unique and deeper factors the current market outlook is triggering for distributors — and the underlying longer-term positive trends where near-term opportunity may also exist.
Strong underlying industrial demand continued throughout the quarter, but a slowdown may be ahead. Read more in the 3Q 2022 MarketPulse report.
Omnichannel provides a seamless customer journey across channels, so your customers don’t have to bounce from department to department trying to place an order or ask a question.
The increase in production was in part thanks to oil and autos bouncing back after a lackluster August.
It was a strong year-over-year growth month and sequential rebound from a month-to-month decline in July.
MDM’s team has been on the fall conference tour. Here, Tom Gale and IRCG’s Mike Marks compare notes from conversations at Affiliated Distributors, NetPlus and ISSA's recent summits, as well as MDM’s SHIFT event. They also cover the latest Baird-MDM quarterly MarketPulse survey, with most distributors reporting double-digit growth amid few signs of a slowdown.
Because of lingering inflation, the Fed may enact a fourth straight 0.75-percentage-point increase to interest rates in the coming weeks.
Construction input prices dipped 0.1% in September compared to the previous month but remained 41% ahead of February 2020 pre-COVID levels.
Backlog is once again above the level observed at the start of the pandemic, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors.
The increase snapped a streak of four consecutive months in which orders of manufacturing technology declined.
Sliding new orders, employment, supplier deliveries and prices all factored into the latest reading, which showed further deceleration in expansion.
Amazon Business's second annual Procurement Report shed some light on the state of the distribution industry and where it might be headed.
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Led by declines in production-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National ActivityIndex decreased to a neutral value in August from +0.29 in July.
The latest 0.75 percentage point increase brings the Fed's benchmark interest rate to its highest mark since early 2008.
Builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes fell again in September.
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Year-to-date dollar volume ended July running about 15% lower than 2019.
