Total Construction Spend rises with months prior revised higher, Power, Residential, and Public lead, Manufacturing lags. This data continues to be in the right direction for reshoring supply lines, the AI spend, and a Residential recovery. Power site construction is outpacing manufacturing, likely due to the completion of earlier supply line initiatives, while the greenfield-manufacturing sites(site clearing and prep work), which have been spurred by tariff policy, have yet to ramp to the more expensive stage of actual construction. It can take more than 1 year to acquire sites to manufacture post-Trump’s tariff policy, develop and gain approvals for site plans, before even the site clearing and prep work begins. But, we do see the ramp in Construction Employment even with the implementation of deportations for illegal workers that have been part of this report.
All in all, reshoring and tariff policy should continue to boost these numbers, Real Personal Income and Retail Sales 3yr-5yr, in my estimation.
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