M. Holland is excited to be the Headline Sponsor for the upcoming Injection Molding & Design Expo in Detroit! This two-day trade show will highlight the latest technologies, materials, equipment and opportunities in injection molding. The event is May 25-26 and admission is free. Click here to learn more.
Haleyanne Freedman, M. Holland’s 3D Printing Market Manager, will be discussing Open Platform Adoption in Additive Manufacturing. Don’t miss her presentation in the Designing the Future Theater on Wednesday, May 25 at 4:00 pm ET.
Josh Blackmore, M. Holland’s Global Healthcare Manager, is facilitating a training seminar on Understanding Material Selection for Medical Devices, from Qualification to Approval. Mark your schedules for this session in the Training and Development Theater on Thursday, May 26 at 9:15 am ET.
Supply
Oil prices rose modestly Friday as WTI notched its fourth straight week of gains. U.S. natural gas prices fell almost 3% on signs of cooler weather in the coming weeks.
In mid-morning trading today, WTI futures were up 0.1% at $110.40/bbl, Brent was up 0.4% at $113.00/bbl, and U.S. natural gas was up 4.3% at $8.43/MMBtu.
Active U.S. oil and gas rigs rose for the ninth week in a row, as smaller producers respond to higher prices and governmental pressure to ramp up output.
Big German businesses are creating an auction system to help ration supplies in the event Russia cuts off the nation’s gas. Gas supplies to Finland were cut off Saturday.
Germany’s plan to boost gas imports from Qatar could take several years as Qatar works to build new plants.
India’s crude imports in April were the highest in 3.5 years on more purchases of discounted Russian fuel. The nation also reduced fuel taxes to fight inflation.
A group of 20 states, including Texas and Ohio, are challenging the EPA’s decision to let California restore strict vehicle emissions standards.
The U.S. Forest Service will halt controlled burns after accidentally helping start New Mexico’s Calf Canyon blaze, now consuming over 300,000 acres and displacing tens of thousands of people. The state closed two of its national forests.
Only 11% of shipments from Asia arrived on time in North America this month, down from 18% last year and 59% in 2020.
Container lines removed about 25% of capacity from Asia-West Coast routes in late April and early May.
Prices for dry bulk’s largest capesize vessels surged to a five-month high this month.
Current orders for new container ships are equivalent to about 30% of the capacity of the existing global fleet.
South Korean shipper HMM’s first-quarter profit rose nearly 20-fold to $2.4 billion.
Almost 90% of New York counties are at the CDC’s highest level of risk for COVID-19 transmission. Last Wednesday, the state recorded 130 COVID-19 deaths, the highest number since vaccinations began.
Alabama’s COVID-19 positivity rate hit almost 10% last week, the highest in three months.
Boston’s COVID-19 positivity rate is up to 9.35% from just 1.6% two months ago.
This year’s economic headwinds have shaved over $5 trillion from the $38.5 trillion in U.S. household wealth built up during the pandemic, according to JPMorgan.
Roughly 57% of U.S. small business owners expect economic conditions to worsen in the next year, up from 42% in April.
Supply chain challenges are prompting more Americans to keep their vehicles longer, with the average age of light vehicles in operation jumping to 12.2 years in 2022, a near two months increase from 2021.
Deere reported a 20% decline in quarterly profit but raised its outlook for the full year as rising crop prices keep demand for machinery high.
Hyundai pledged to invest another $5 billion in the U.S. by 2025, just days after confirming plans for a $5.5 billion electric-vehicle plant in Georgia.
U.S. revenues from cloud computing services will surpass $200 billion this year, roughly six times the size of the next largest market in China:
Cleaning supply manufacturer SC Johnson is reviving its concentrated Windex product, first introduced over a decade ago, which uses 90% less plastic compared to its prior incarnation.
Authorities in Shanghai say they are on track to completely lift lockdowns next week. Part of the city’s subway system opened Sunday for the first time in two months.
Beijing closed public transit in a central district over the weekend and put thousands of people into forced quarantine as the city guards against persistent, though small, COVID-19 outbreaks. Today, the city extended work-from-home orders and expanded testing after an uptick in virus cases.
The World Health Organization has granted emergency use authorization to China’s CanSino Biologics COVID-19 vaccine, the 11th vaccine to get clearance from the global health agency.
Two types of the COVID-19 Omicron variant — BA.4 and BA.5 — were labeled variants of concern in the U.K. after fueling a new wave in South Africa.
More news related to the war in Europe:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now in its fourth month.
The White House approved $40 billion more in Ukrainian aid on Saturday.
After falling 7% against the U.S. dollar this year, the Euro and dollar are approaching parity.
Turkey raised its key interest rate by 75 basis points Thursday, its first hike in three years, as the nation’s economy takes a hit from the war in Ukraine and surging inflation.
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