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EPI Increases 0.2 in February
Mar 26, 2010
While Electrical Marketing’s Price Index registered a 0.2 percent increase last month, several categories were up more than one percent...

Housing Starts Slide in February But Unusually Bad Weather Was Big Factor
Mar 26, 2010
The pace of single-family home production remained virtually unchanged in February with a 0.6 percent decline to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 499,000 units, according to figures released by the U.S...

Firms Announce Big Project Awards
Mar 26, 2010
While the overall electrical construction market is by all accounts still in the early stages of recovery, in the past two weeks several electrical distributors, electrical manufacturers and electrical contractors announced that they had won sizeable new contracts...

Lamps, motors and industrial control shipments moving upward
Mar 12, 2010
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association’s product shipment indices are starting to look better after a rough year...

January Construction Spending Flat with December But Down 9.3 Percent YTY
Mar 12, 2010
The Department of Commerce said construction spending during January 2010 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $884.1 billion, 0.6 percent below the revised December estimate of $889.6 billion...

Electrical Stocks Approach 52-Week Highs: Earnings Reports Spoil Some of the Fun
Mar 12, 2010
Wall Street has been holding an anniversary bash of sorts this week — it’s one year since the stock market bottomed out in March 2009...

Electrical Marketing’s Leading Indicators
Feb 26, 2010
AIA Billings Index drops in January. A leading indicator of U.S. nonresidential construction spending fell in January to its lowest level since August 2009 as more construction projects were delayed or canceled...

EPI Increases 0.1% in January
Feb 26, 2010
Electrical Marketing’s Electrical Price Index crawled up 0.1 percent in January but was up 6.4 percent YTY from January 2009. Power cable had the largest increase (+1.6%)...

NEMA’s EBCI Index Surges in February
Feb 26, 2010
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions advanced sharply for a second straight month in February...

Housing Starts and Building Permits Post Solid YTY Numbers In January
Feb 26, 2010
The housing industry still has to dig out of a deep hole, but residential construction data posted by the Department of Commerce offered some reason to cheer....

NEMA’s EBCI Rebounds in January
Feb 12, 2010
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions rebounded in January, rising nearly nine points to 57.1 points....

December Construction Spending Flat with November But Down 9.9 Percent YTY
Feb 12, 2010
Construction spending during December 2009 was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $902.5 billion, 1.2 percent below the revised November estimate of $913.2 billion, according to the Department of Commerce...

NAW 2010 Report
Feb 12, 2010, By Jim Lucy
Bruised and battered from one of the worst years in the distribution trade’s history, attendees came to this year’s annual conference of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW) singing the same song...

ARRA Update: Electrical Contractors Win Projects with VA and Corps of Engineers
Feb 12, 2010
There continues to be a steady flow of contract awards for electrical contractors for construction projects at government facilities funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009...

EPI Increases 0.9% in December
Jan 22, 2010
The Electrical Price Index (EPI) increased 0.9 percent in December and was up six percent year-over-year...

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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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