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While updating Electrical Marketing's 2Q 2018 Electrical Sales Potential estimates for local market areas, EM’s editors found some new fast-growing metros in the mix, as well as plenty of perennial all stars. It wasn’t surprising to...
Total building permits drop in June due to tariff concerns. Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,273,000, -2.2% below the revised May rate of 1,301,000 and -3% below...
To no one’s surprise, the increases in the Electrical Price Index’s Building Wire & Cable (+2.3%) and Power Wire & Cable (+0.8%) categories were driven by June’s copper market, volatility which drove prices over $3 per pound for most of the month...
Privately-owned housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,173,000, -12.3% below the revised May estimate of 1,337,000 and -4.2% below the June 2017 rate of 1,225,000. Single-family housing starts in June were at a rate...
With the economy chugging along there's no lack of major construction projects in planning or construction around the United States. Here's our collection of the latest news on marquee jobs in a data table sortable by state, size or any other...
While the overall data points to a good but not necessarily great nonresidential construction market, some projects of note either broke ground or neared groundbreaking during the past few months. ...
Copper prices have taken a beating over the past few weeks, in large part responding to concerns that global trade will be slowed by tariffs, but the longer-term outlook based on supply fundamentals has some analysts looking for a significant...
A nine-point jump brought the EBCI’s current conditions component for June to its highest reading since January of this year. Although a larger share of respondents noted worse conditions this month than last, those reporting better conditions...
Well, that wasn’t much fun. These words may have been on the lips of execs of the publicly held electrical manufacturers, distributors and contractors who saw the growth of their share prices slide into negative territory for the first...
