Yes, most US-owned and other foreign-invested factories are still in China. This is despite all the press that reshoring, often described as moving back production to the US, has been getting. Reshoring naysayers believe China is still the place to be. For many companies, three factors stand out as their reasons for staying: strong vendor […]

On-shoring, energy infrastructure reinvestment and plant replacement are three trends in the making that will shake American business out of paralysis. In the last “Bond Deer in the Headlights,” I outlined the “Monetary Abolitionists” assertion that out-of-control government spending, made acceptable by historically low interest rates, was responsible for corporate paralysis in investing and hiring. […]

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 11, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — BBK, the international business advisory firm, today announced a major commitment to the expansion of its operations advisory services with the addition of two highly-experienced managing directors. Bill May joins BBK’s Operations Practice as a managing director in the Southeast region, and Jack Graff joins Performance Improvement […]

Collins Stewart Wealth Management’s global strategists Robert Jukes and Edward Smith outline their five key themes to dominate financial markets in 2013. 1. Infrastructure We concentrate on picking securities with favourable risk/reward profiles that benefit from secular themes less exposed to cyclical aberrations.   Europe, and indeed much of the developed world, faces twin headwinds […]