Industry Stats

The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that construction spending during Nov. 2016 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,182.1 billion, 0.9% above the revised October estimate of $1,171.4 billion. The November figure is 4.1...

EM’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) lost a fraction of a point in November with a -0.6% drop to 144.2. The Power Cable category saw one of the larger monthly declines at -1.6% and was down -8.6% YOY. Electrical Measurement Instruments led all dec...

While some of the national-level data for the construction industry shows the market growing in the mid single digits year-over-year (YOY), the latest local market data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  (BLS) showed declines in construc...

NEMA EBCI panel members, all of whom responded to the November survey after the election results were known, pushed the current conditions index further into positive territory, moving it from 55.6 points in October to 57.9 points this month. W...

With a +0.1% increase in October, Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index (EPI) remained firmly entrenched in a band of little growth or change. The contrarian product categories were Power Wire & Cable, which was down -3% for the month a...

Privately-owned housing starts in October were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,323,000, which is 25.5% above the revised September estimate of 1,054,000 and is 23.3% above the October 2015 rate of 1,073,000. Single-family housing star...

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