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19, Nov 2019
COTD: Recession Triggers

COTD = Chart of the Day Nice chart from Mark Zandi from Moody’s Analytics.   The biggest risk as illustrated in the chart from a macro and micro perspective to the electronics manufacturing industry is an escalation of the trade war.  

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15, Nov 2019
GDP Now Takes Q4 Forecast Down to 0.3 Percent From 1.0 Percent

The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow dropped its forecast of Q4 growth to just 0.3% from 1.0 percent. The New York Fed’s GDP Nowcast is showing a gain of 0.4%. Today’s two economic releases indicating lackluster retail sales, consumers purchases of big-ticket items disappointed, and a dismal -0.8 percent industrial production print for October were largely…

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15, Nov 2019
October U.S. Industrial Production Declines 0.8%, Most Since April 2016

Industrial production fell 0.8 percent in October after declining 0.3 percent in September. Manufacturing production decreased 0.6 percent in October. Much of this decline was due to a drop of 7.1 percent in the output of motor vehicles and parts that resulted from a strike at a major manufacturer of motor vehicles. The decreases…

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14, Nov 2019
Taiwan’s Top PCB Maker Zhen Ding Plans Record 2020 Capex Spending

Taiwan’s top PCB maker Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT) will budget a record high capex for 2020 and expects its revenues for the year to grow significantly from 2019 on stronger shipments of diverse product lines, according to company chairman Charles Shen. ZDT’s board of directors has yet to finalize the…

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13, Nov 2019
Trade Wars And Boeing’s Supply Chain

  Boeing’s supply chain is just one example of how global trade friction can affect the company’s plane production.  Boeing recently announced that it will reverse the expected boost in monthly output of the 787 Dreamliner from 14 back t 12 due to the trade war, which among other things,…