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Navigating Fleet’s Future Freight rates and volumes are up. Corporate tax rates are lower, which is leading some companies to invest in new equipment. Thus, orders are up: According to ACT

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Contractors’ Cost-RecoveryRecourse After Shutdown During the 35-day federal government shutdown that ended with Friday’s agreement to restore normal operations until February 15, the impact was

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ROB Roundup: March PMI® An inverted yield curve. Soft housing starts. Weak retail sales. In recent days, each new piece of recent U.S. economic data seemed to further stoke fears of a slowdown,

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#ISM2019: Texas-Sized Twitter In a city synonymous with space exploration, ISM2019 Annual Conference attendees in Houston had no problem compiling enough succinct and clever tweets to reach the

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Brexit’s Impact on the Global Supply Chain By Chris Laws There are two ways that the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) exit from the European Union (EU) can unfold. A hard Brexit describes a worst-case

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ROB Roundup: June NMI® The June Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® dropped 1.8 points to its lowest level in almost two years, cooled by slowing employment, business activity

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Manufacturing Remains Important to the Economy, Report Finds <!-- [if lte IE 8]> <![endif]--> Manufacturing is important to the U.S. economy, nearly all respondents (95 percent) to Thomas’s

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ROB Roundup: September NMI® From his regular spot on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, CNBC analyst Rick Santelli told viewers just before the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®

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ROB Roundup: August PMI® The release of the ISM® Report On Business® always generates discussion and activity in the financial and procurement worlds, but Tuesday’s unveiling of the

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14 Industrial Locales Considered‘Strategic’ Markets Due to their infrastructure and large millennial populations, among other factors, industrial markets in 14 locales can offer opportunities to

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