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Electrical Marketing’s Leading Indicators
May 21, 2010
AIA’s Billing Index remains on growth track in April. For the third straight month, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, D.C., has gone up...

Housing Starts Surge 10.8 Percent in April for Largest Monthly Increase Since August 2008
May 21, 2010
Nationwide housing starts rose 5.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 672,000 units in April as the deadline for an important home buyer tax incentive arrived, according to the U.S. Commerce Department...

Publicly Held Distributors See Some Light at the End of the Tunnel in 1Q Reports
May 21, 2010
First-quarter 2010 sales results for publicly held distributors of electrical equipment varied, but senior executives from these companies all saw signs of growth...

Top 200 Respondents Say the Worst is Over
May 7, 2010
Like many if not most U.S. businesses, many respondents to Electrical Wholesaling’s 2010 Top 200 listing had to make some painful cuts in staff to get through the recession....

Europe Leads Gains in NEMA’s EBCI Index
May 7, 2010
The economic environment facing electrical equipment manufacturers continued to show strong improvement in April, according to respondents to NEMA’s latest business confidence survey...

Construction Shows Slight Increase in March But is Still Down 12.3 Percent YTY
May 7, 2010
The Department of Commerce said construction spending during March was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $847.3 billion, 0.2 percent above the revised February estimate of $845.5 billion...

Analysis of Public Electrical Company Share Prices Tell a Tale of Woe and Woah!
May 7, 2010, Jim Lucy
The publicly held companies with interests in the electrical or distribution markets generally don’t attract as much interest as Wall Street’s trendy tech stocks...

EPI Index Jumps 1.2 Percent in March
Apr 23, 2010
Led by a 4.2 percent increase in building wire, EM’s Price Index increased 1.2 percent in March. Building wire is up 36.4 percent YTY...

Electrical Marketing’s Leading Indicators
Apr 23, 2010
AIA’s Billing Index Up in March. On the heels of a more than two-point gain in February, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) was up again in March...

Housing Data Stays on Growth Track in March as Starts and Permits Increase
Apr 23, 2010
Nationwide housing starts rose for a third consecutive month in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 626,000 units from an upwardly revised February number, according to figures released by the U.S. Commerce Department...

First-Quarter Earnings Reports
Apr 23, 2010
Hubbell Inc., Orange, Conn., reported net sales in first quarter of $570.5 million, a decrease of three percent compared to the $585.6 million it reported in the first quarter of 2009...

Surprising Number of Top 200 Electrical Distributors Seen Solid Growth in 2010
Apr 23, 2010, By Jim Lucy
With all the economic gloom and doom, it was refreshing to see that so many of the early respondents to Electrical Wholesaling’s survey for this year’s Top 200 listing are expecting their 2010 sales to increase over last year...

NEMA’s EBCI Up Sharply in March
Apr 9, 2010
The business environment has improved markedly since December 2009, according to electrical equipment manufacturers polled in NEMA’s most recent business confidence survey...

Construction Slides in February and is Down 12.8 Percent from February 2009
Apr 9, 2010
Construction spending during Feb. 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $846.2 billion, 1.3 percent below the revised January estimate of $857.8 billion...

Electrical Marketing’s Leading Indicators
Mar 26, 2010
AIA Billings Index up in February. Following a drop of nearly three points, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) nudged up almost two points in February...

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Industry Calendar

Sept. 20–22
IDEA E-Biz Forum
Dallas; IDEA; 703-562-4600; www.idea-esolutions.com

Sept. 26–29
A-D Electrical Supply Division North American Meeting
Dallas; Affiliated Distributors (A-D) 610-977-3100; www.mya-d.net

Oct. 2-5
NECA Annual
Boston; National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) (301) 657-3110; www.necanet.org

Nov. 5-Nov. 6
NEMA 84th Annual Meeting
Palm Beach, Fla.; National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), (703) 841-3200; www.nema.org

Nov. 8- Nov. 10
NAED Eastern Region Conference
Orlando; NAED, (888) 791-2512; www.naed.org

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