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Bloomberg
5 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Blockbuster Mergers Return as Industrial Breakups Reach Limit
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. After a decade of conglomerate breakups, the time may finally be right for the reemergence of another type of dealmaking: mergers of equals.
Bloomberg
02-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Manufacturers Can't Buck the Consumer Slowdown for Long
Major industrial companies have largely been taking sweeping tariffs in stride, but the mood is quite different on the consumer side of the economy. By Save To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. The loudest alarm bells on President Donald Trump's tariff war are coming from the consumer side of the economy — for now.
Bloomberg
11-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Who Pays for Aerospace Tariffs? Maybe No One
A standoff over higher costs from Trump's import taxes risks freezing the aviation supply chain and further dampening travel demand. By Save To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. The worst-case scenario of President Donald Trump's tariff policy has been postponed for at least three months, leaving the world with a still- cripplingly elevated level of import taxes and policy uncertainty. In the weeklong period of chaos between when the sky-high, sweeping 'reciprocal' levies were announced and when they were halted, the aerospace industry has offered a real-time lesson on how such tariffs can upend entire supply chains.
Bloomberg
04-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump's Dream of Tariff-Driven Factory Boom Ignores Labor Crunch
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. President Donald Trump followed through this week on a sweeping tariff policy that's set to slap levies ranging from 10% to 50% on just about everything: Vietnam-made Nike Inc. footwear; electronics from Taiwan and South Korea; apparel from Cambodia; European wine and cheese — but also any goods that might theoretically come from the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in the sub-Antartica Indian Ocean and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a tiny self-governing French archipelago off of Canada. It's the most aggressive assault on free trade in a century and threatens to upend economies across the globe, with only Canadian and Mexican imports being spared additional across-the-board rates for now because those countries are engaged in their own battle over separate tariffs. In theory, Trump is trying to force a revitalization of American manufacturing. The reality risks being quite different. It takes years to reorder supply chains and construct new factories, while Trump's import taxes are poised to spur almost immediate price increases, deepen a pullback in investment and weigh on global growth. In the wake of the tariff announcement, economists and market strategists have increasingly been sounding the alarm on the risk of a recession or worse, stagflation — a dangerous combination of rising prices, sluggish economic growth and high unemployment that limits the ability of the Federal Reserve to respond.
Bloomberg
28-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Manufacturers Keep Spending But It's Not About Reshoring
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here. Industrial companies are still spending, but they're primarily doing so in spite of tariffs — not because of them.
