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January 2020 // Economic Update Executive SummaryAmericasTHE U.S. FACTORY SECTOR HEADED INTO 2020 ON A WEAK FOOTING, contracting in December for a fifth-consecutive month as trade tensions continued to pressure manufacturing. The USMCA trade deal was signed after Congressional negotiations secured s... Continue Reading

December 2019 // Economic Update Executive SummaryAmericasU.S. MANUFACTURING CONTRACTED FASTER THAN EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER, rekindling worries about the country’s trade wars. It was the fourth-consecutive month of contraction for the ISM manufacturing index. Businesses have reduced production in respo... Continue Reading

November 2019 // Economic Update Executive SummaryAmericasTHE NEWS LAST MONTH OFFERED SOME POSITIVE SIGNS that China and the U.S. may finally be getting closer to a formal trade deal with a tentative agreement on a “phase one” step. The overall U.S. trade deficit widened in the first nine months... Continue Reading

October 2019 // Economic Update Executive SummaryAmericasLAST MONTH'S ECONOMIC DATA supported opposing forecasts for the direction of the U.S. economy. Warnings of a downturn came from the manufacturing and services sectors, as well as news of dwindling business investment and flagging consumer spen... Continue Reading

Introducing the New Ulbrich Economic Update| A Letter from the CEO, Chris UlbrichWelcome to the first edition of Ulbrich's new monthly economic update newsletter publication. Our main goal in publishing this informative newsletter is to provide our customers, employees, vendors, shareholders, bankin... Continue Reading