Industrial Green Shoots Are in Short Supply: Brooke Sutherland

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There’s little sign of a turnaround just yet in sluggish industrial markets.

Companies typically take a conservative approach when giving annual outlooks in January, and that’s especially true this year. Between still-elevated interest rates, worries about both a fresh burst of inflation and a potential recession and continued pop-up surprises in the supply chain (the latest being a near shutdown of the vital Suez Canal shipping lane to Western vessels amid attacks by Houthi militants), there is plenty of uncertainty, and the odds of chief executive officers getting burned for ...