Electrical Economy

Economic factors that affect or reflect the ongoing changes in the electrical industry will help you make better decisions.

Housing Starts Rise Another 3% Monthly, Over 6% Annually on Single-Family Growth

Mar 31, 2017

Privately-owned housing starts in February were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,288,000. This is 3% above the revised January estimate of 1,251,000 and is 6.2% above the Feb. 2016 rate of 1,213,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau...

50 Largest Construction Projects Breaking Ground or On the Drawing Boards - 2Q 2017

Mar 30, 2017

Mega-Project Activity Off to Strong Start in Q1 ...

Baker-Hughes Rotary Rig Count - 2017 Year to Date

Mar 17, 2017

Accompanies the article Texas Leads Nation in Oil & Gas Production with Big Increase in Permian Basin Drilling and Solid Increase in Eagle-Ford Basin

NEMA EBCI Indexes Stay Hot and Remain at Historically High Levels In February

Mar 17, 2017

NEMA said that at an aggregate level business confidence remained unchanged in February, hitting the same 72.2 mark in its Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) as in January. The EBCI Index is a monthly survey of senior executive...

Texas Leads Nation in Oil & Gas Production with Big Increase in Permian Basin Drilling and Solid Increase in Eagle-Ford Basin

Mar 17, 2017

When the revolution in oil fracking technology supercharged the oil & gas industries in states like North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Ohio several years ago, it was perhaps too easy to look past what historically has been the nation’s leader in oi...

Electrical Marketing’s Leading Economic Indicators - February 2017

Feb 28, 2017

Building permits see nice bump in January. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,285,000, 4.6% above the revised December rate of 1,228,000 and 8.2% above the January...

EPI Shows No Movement in January

Feb 28, 2017

Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) spent another month in slow-growth/no-growth territory, registering no change in Jan. 2017 at 144.5 points. Year-over-year growth in the EPI was also stuck in a slow gear last month at +0.2%...

January Housing Starts Slide -2.6% from December but Hang Tough Year-Over-Year

Feb 28, 2017

Privately-owned housing starts in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,246,000, 2.6% below the revised December estimate of 1,279,000, but 10.5% above the Jan. 2016 rate of 1,128,000. The U.S. Census Bureau said single-family ...

2017 Electrical Sales Potential by Product - State Level

Feb 16, 2017

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AD Members Post 9% Growth Overall but Electrical Lags

Feb 14, 2017

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)Wholesale buying/marketing group Affiliated Distributors (AD), Wayne, PA, reported sales for all AD distributor members, across all seven of the group’s divisions and three countries, grew by 9% in 2016 but el...

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