Electrical Economy

May was another month of light activity for Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index (EPI), with no change since April and just a 0.2% increase from May 2016. It’s interesting to note that while Building Wire & Cable showed no change month-to...

Total building permits lose momentum in May. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,168,000. This is- 4.9% below the revised April rate of 1,228,000 and 0.8% below the May...

The U.S. Department of Commerce said privately-owned housing starts in May were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,092,000, -5.5% below the revised April estimate of 1,156,000 and -2.4% below the May 2016 rate of 1,119,000. Single-family...

It already looked like a pretty solid year for the electrical industry. Over the past few months, the outlook has improved.

Building permits sag in April. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,229,000, -2.5% below the revised March rate of 1,260,000, but +5.7% above the April 2016 rate of 1...

See the data: The 50 Distributors with the Highest Sales-Per-Employee

Sales forecasts coming in from Top 200 electrical distributors are quite bullish for this year, with the first 80 responses coming in at an average 2017 sales increase of 8%. That’s at the high end of the electrical wholesaling industry’s tradi...