Economic News, Blog Posts & Updates

Our Economic Neighbors: Canada and Mexico

North America is quite the economic powerhouse. It holds 6.5% of the world’s population while realizing 28.0% percent of its Gross Domestic Profit (GDP). In terms of ...

Shrinking Margins in a Slowing Market

By: Alex Chausovsky on 03/06/19 11:30

Companies involved in the electrical equipment industry are seemingly doing well. The annual rate-of-change (12/12) for US Electrical Equipment Production (excluding ...

Two Ways Manufacturers Can Mitigate the Slowdown

By: Alex Chausovsky on 03/06/19 11:09

The business-cycle peak is coming to the manufacturing sector. ITR’s forecasts have been calling for it since last year, and leading indicators signal that it will likely occur ...

Visible Signs of the European Slowdown

By: Alex Chausovsky on 03/06/19 11:01

The European industrial economy is on the back side of the business cycle. The slowdown started in early 2018, according to the year-over-year rate-of-change data for Europe ...

Director's Cut: World Industrial Production Fell – Hard!

By: Jackie Greene on 02/25/19 11:57

The world is a big place, and World Industrial Production is a large engine. Once it's in motion, it's difficult to change its direction. Unfortunately for many, that engine is ...

ITR Experts Say: Bad Data, Not Disaster, Struck December Sales

By: Connor Lokar on 02/21/19 13:56

After a several-week delay, thanks to the government shutdown, the US Census Bureau finally released December 2018 Retail Sales data, and the results were frightening. ...

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