Mike Marks and Tom Gale explore the impact of recent landmark acquisitions and how the mission of strategic deals runs counter to that of private equity.
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For the first time since summer 2020, both single-family starts and permits fell below a 1 million annual pace, NAHB says.
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Our latest podcast focuses on maintaining perspective and paying attention to actions and tangible data amid all the broad economic downturn talk.
The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.1% in June compared to the prior month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
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May orders were down 14% from April 2022 but nearly equal to May 2021 orders with a modest 1% decline.
The deficit was $85.5 billion in May, down $1.1 billion from $86.7 billion in April, the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
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The ABC analysis comes around the same time it was announced that construction prices rose 2.3% in May compared to the previous month.
Combining sweet-spot analysis with market data is a quick way for distributors to realize strengths and weaknesses in their respective markets, says MDM's Analytics team.
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.
Last year’s momentum carried over into a strong first half of 2022 for many distributors. But a mishmash of headwinds and tailwinds reveal uncertainties for the rest of the year and into 2023, economist Brian Lewandowski and MDM’s Tom Gale discuss in a new webcast.
U.S. manufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits in the first quarter of 2022 totaled $261.9 billion.
MDM's Tom Gale and Indian River Consulting's Mike Marks discuss what's in store for distributors in 2022's second half.
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Our first-quarter M&A Report is now available to download, providing in-depth data and analysis of the January-March 2022 period that followed a record 4Q 2021.
