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Revisiting the Second Black Swan

It has been almost five months since West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil Prices slid into the negatives due to a price conflict between Russia and Saudi Arabia. In fact, ...

Commodity Prices – Maintaining Margins in an Ever-Changing Environment

By: Taylor St. Germain on 08/12/19 10:31

What do the quarterly growth rates for Steel, Copper, Aluminum, Zinc, and Oil Prices have in common? They’re all declining below year-earlier levels. It’s amazing how quickly ...

US Housing and Nonresidential Construction: A Tale of Two Sectors

By: Taylor St. Germain on 04/09/19 12:29

If you are keeping up to date with ITR Economics and the ITR Trends Report™, you see that the housing and nonresidential segments of US construction are at very different ...