Wages Advance Mightily in U.S.; Maintain Moderation in Canada
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8 Mid-October Economic Nuggets
This isn’t a hard point to make. A great deal of emphasis in coming years will b...
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U.S. Industry Snapshot – September’s Nonresidential Construction Starts +13% M/M, +31% Y/Y & -2% YTD
ConstructConnect announced today that September 2021's volume of construction st...
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Reaching Step 3 along the reopening roadmap, Toronto’s outlook is much brighter
The sustained decline in the number of active COVID-19 cases in Toronto since mi...
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Two Outstanding News Items from September’s U.S. and Canadian Jobs Reports
There are two big stories from the September Jobs reports just released for the...
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Gap Between Increases in Material Costs & Bid Prices Shrinks; Still Immense
Graph 2 at the end of this article shows that the gap between high year-over-ye...
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Stock Market Indices in September: Catching Their Breath or Re-assessing?
For the first time in nearly a year, the four major stock market indices featur...
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The Homebuilding Juggernaut Keeps on Rolling in U.S. and Canada
U.S. Housing Starts Stay Elevated Construction activity in the U.S. is curren...
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1,000-Word Chart: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims – as of September 25, 2021
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Quarterly U.S. Put-in-Place Forecast Report, Fall 2021
Two of the major themes that will be governing U.S. construction activity as th...
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Supply chain bottlenecks raise risk of higher interest rates
With many of the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 finally receding, surging...
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – August 2021
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
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1,000-Word Charts: U.S. and Canada’s Foreign Trade – July 2021
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1,000-Word Chart: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims – as of September 11, 2021
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10 Mid-September Economic Nuggets – Three Key Developing Trends
It would be comforting to think the post-pandemic economic recovery will proceed...
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U.S. Industry Snapshot – August’s Nonresidential Construction Starts -14% M/M, -11% Y/Y, & -6% YTD
ConstructConnect announced today that August 2021's volume of construction start...
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Top 10 major upcoming educational and medical construction projects – Canada – September 2021
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical...
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Top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest construction projects – U.S. – September 2021
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Midwest and Northwest co...
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Canada Reached Some Labour Market Milestones in August
According to Statistics Canada, the Canadian total jobs count climbed by +90,000...
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Active business counts and bankruptcies in Canada’s construction sector
The private sector bore the brunt of COVID-19’s first wave. Between February and...
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Stock Markets Speed Along, Oblivious to Blind Spots
U.S. Economy Stumbling Blocks A year and a half into the coronavirus health...
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Little Meat on the Bones of the August U.S. Jobs Report
August’s Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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Canada Achieves Foreign Trade Gains; U.S. Still Sinking
Canada’s foreign trade picture brightened considerably in June. The nation’s mer...
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U.S. Put-in-place Construction Spending Picking Up M/M
The latest (July 2021) U.S. put-in-place construction spending numbers from the...
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1,000-Word Charts: Retail Sales in Canada
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1,000-Word Charts: U.S. Retail Sales
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1,000-Word Charts: U.S. and Canada’s Foreign Trade – June 2021
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Little Letup in U.S. and Canadian Construction Material Cost Increases
The headlines are no longer screaming about steeply climbing lumber prices. The...
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4th-wave COVID will dampen but not drown international and interprovincial migration
Against the ongoing headwind of COVID-19, Canada is attracting more internationa...
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Top 10 largest construction project starts in Canada and Trend Graph – July 2021
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
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U.S. Home Building Up by One-fifth; Canadian Up by Two-fifths
The 14 graphs in this article set out how housing starts have been performing s...
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The U.S. and Canadian Inflation Story in Seven 1,000-Word (Standalone) Graphs
The seven (potentially) standalone graphs in this article show how inflation,...