In the context of last week’s surprisingly positive job numbers (so surprising in fact that President Obama had to do a last minute rewrite to his speech Friday), two news stories have shared additional good news for US manufacturing. They’re largely anecdotal evidence, but perhaps they show a return of manufacturing jobs to the US [...]

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UPDATE: CNBC picked up Pat’s advice today.
With stock markets surging (thus diverting investment money from t-bills) and the US dollar expected to continue its downward slide in the face of “loose” monetary policy, currency fluctuations are reemerging as a spend management priority. Although the ebb and flow of foreign exchange markets are far beyond the [...]

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In their recent report, “Recession: How will you play to win?“, Deloitte identified the challenges facing CFOs in the current economic climate and created solution “playbooks” full of strategies for each area. The authors broke out the threats in a logical, largely chronological, way that includes sections on the credit crisis,  downturn, recovery and ongoing [...]

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It’s that time of the quarter again when I get a chance to take a step back, gather my thoughts and scour through the data as I write the metals category article for SupplyWatch. As you can guess…there’s a LOT to talk about this quarter. Plummeting commodity prices, a global credit crisis and an underlying [...]

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Everybody is aware of the trans-Atlantic trade implications of a weak US dollar, which has lost another 12% of it’s value against the Euro in the last year. European exporters are struggling if they deliver to US customers, whose purchasing power has been greatly diminished in the last few years (see the graph on Kevin [...]

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