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Latest U.S. Ag Market Summaries
The Agriculture Market Summary provides monthly insight into pricing trends for tractors, combines, and other key ag equipment. It highlights current inventory levels, how quickly units are moving, and regional supply patterns that may influence availability. Members also gain a clear picture of shifting buyer demand across the used equipment sector.
Latest U.S. Construction Market Summaries
The Construction Market Summary analyzes monthly trends in excavators, loaders, dozers, skid steers, and additional core construction categories. It compares retail and auction performance to show where the market is strongest, while also tracking fleet age, equipment availability, and emerging shifts in overall market direction.
Latest U.S. Crane Market Summaries
The Crane Market Summary delivers detailed updates on valuations for truck cranes, all-terrain cranes, and crawler cranes. Each report reviews transaction volume to identify buying activity, explores demand by capacity class, and highlights indicators of market stabilization or decline to help members anticipate future conditions.
Insight on Business the News Hour
Insight on Business the News Hour is a daily look at the business news of the nation/region and long form business interviews.
Hosted by: Michael Libbie
Demand for equipment to support the buildout of data centers is driving production for high-and-heavy equipment makers Caterpillar and Deere, helping offset tariff costs and — for Deere — declines stemming from geopolitical uncertainty.
Hitachi Energy and Volvo Construction Equipment have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on developing end-to-end approaches that support the deployment of zero-emission construction sites. The collaboration brings together electric construction equipment with clean power supply, energy management and system integration capabilities to help address one of the construction industry's most pressing challenges: decarbonization.
Iran's steel industry in major realignment after recent war
Financial Tribune
Iran's steel industry is undergoing a major realignment after disruptions caused by the recent U.S.-Israeli war against Iran reshaped production, trade routes and regional competition. The effects are no longer limited to lower output levels. They are now visible across export markets, shipping patterns and the growing competition among Asian and regional steel producers seeking to capture Iran's market share.
