FLM News and Press, First Trust Global Engineering and Construction From 10/18/21

Industrial production fell 1.3 percent in September. Capacity utilization fell a full percentage point to 75.2 percent from 76.2 percent in August and is below the February 2020 level of 76.3 percent. Industrial output showed broad weakness in September. For further details ...

Manufacturing input costs rose at an accelerated rate in September, increasing at one of the sharpest rates seen over the past decade as supply shortages were exacerbated by ever-higher shipping costs. Demand growth cooled, however, alleviating some of the upward pressure on prices, l...

Global manufacturing output growth picked up in September from the 14-month low witnessed in August. Globally, the number of firms reporting that production has fallen due to supply chain delays or labour shortages is running at over three times the long run average. What remains ...

The latest leading economic data indicate that the US recovery/expansion is intact and that US GDP will continue to grow at an above-average rate for at least two more quarters, albeit not as quickly as it grew during the first half of this year. Note that the GDP growth number for Q3...

US factories are humming along, constrained only by supply issues which might occasionally limit production. According to the Census Bureau, it is not consumer goods which are making such massive waves in production. On the contrary, factory orders for strictly consumer products are, ...

Taking a look at how the expected Q3 ’21 sector revenue growth rates have changed since mid-August ’21 or the unofficial end of Q2 ’21 earnings season. Per Bespoke’s research, the S&P 500 has now reached “extremely oversold” levels, worse ...

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Price pressures are most concentrated in those sectors reporting the greatest constraints. Output consequently fell in China as well as a number of other smaller Asia-Pacific economies, and growth slowed in the US and Europe. The constraints on production caused by a lack of input...

Industrial production rose 0.4 percent in June, the eighth gain in the last nine months. However, manufacturing output, which accounts for about 75 percent of total industrial production, decreased 0.1 percent. All other industries combined (total excluding energy, high-tech, and moto...

The importance of transit hesitancy on the future on commercial real estate. Is this the right time to buy retail assets? How to play the "once in a generation" build-out of new infrastructure. For further details see: Global Real Estate And Infrastructure: Should Altern...