The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: America’s Car-Mart, Central Garden & Pet, Heritage-Crystal Clean, Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment and Comerica

January 8, 2017
In fact, Trump’s win calls for a rise in the trend of manufacturing ‘reshoring’, instead of offshoring to low cost destinations like China, most of Asia and some parts of Latin America. This makes it clear why we pick AIRR as a 2017 outperformer …
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Is nearshoring growing in the US?

January 8, 2017
With a new administration and a fresh year ahead, there’s time to reconsider the possibility of reshoring supply lines in the U.S. There are a few different examples in the news of this taking a priority for companies large and small. Confusion over Apple …
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CHINA OFFERS TO HELP TRUMP’S INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

January 8, 2017
Additionally, as Catherine Fitts has observed, Mr. Trump appears to have put together a team to reshore the offshored money in corporate accounts. (In this respect it’s also worth recalling an investment move of Mr. Warren Buffet in recent months …
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How L.A. garment district shows promise and peril of higher minimum wage

January 6, 2017
The reshoring of light manufacturing jobs is largely due to market forces such as rising labor and shipping costs abroad. But it has also been a boon to the brand. Manufacturing its products in the US means the company can deliver them to American …
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Toyota Transmission Cap Plastic Injection Molding Case Study

January 5, 2017
Contact us to discuss whether your injection molding project may be a candidate for reshoring. When it comes to product cost, GreenLeaf is showing their vendors that supporting American industry and cost effectiveness do not have to be mutually exclusive.
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Lawrence Solomon: Don’t be fooled into fearing the coming robot revolution

January 5, 2017
As a rule of thumb, a company will reshore its jobs when the costs of doing business at home are within 10 per cent of the costs abroad. Trump’s tax and regulation changes will be lowering the offshoring advantage to within 10 per cent, changing the …
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5 Sector ETFs & Stocks Likely to See a Great Year

January 5, 2017
In fact, Trump’s win calls for a rise in the trend of manufacturing ‘reshoring’, instead of offshoring to low cost destinations like China, most of Asia and some parts of Latin America. This makes it clear why we pick AIRR as a 2017 outperformer (read …
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Ten transportation trends to watch in 2017

January 5, 2017
Automation and its impact on manufacturing, transportation, and especially jobs: Automation of manufacturing could actually speed up “reshoring” efforts and the implication for transportation is “dramatic,” Larkin said. “Freight will be touched …
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Trump’s three trade chiefs have very peculiar ideas: Analyst

January 5, 2017
“That is the case of reshoring manufacturing facilities but not creating jobs. That is why I feel his policies are flawed because you may get to reshore but you won’t be creating too many jobs in America.” Earlier this week Donald Trump took to Twitter to …
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Palm Springs Modernism Week Entices With Robust Offerings in 11-Day February Festival

January 4, 2017
Once again, Modernism Week will present a variety of film screenings, including the U.S. film premiere of “Harry Seidler – Modernist … Golightly’) and her photographer husband, Fred Moser, to renovate their spectacularly sited home in the …
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