As climbing mortgage rates dampen demand for home sales, homebuilders are facing rising material costs with particularly painful price jumps hitting smaller firms. The cost of key homebuilding ...

In the first five months of 2026, nearly a million new battery-electric cars were registered in the EU, giving BEVs a 20% market share, while hybrid-electric vehicles remained the largest powertrain ...

Specialty construction materials have stayed elevated longer than commodity inputs, even as lumber prices cooled after the pandemic surge. Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics PPI data via FRED.

Even as manufacturers struggle to fashion long-term sourcing strategies in line with the changing geopolitical landscape, they face more immediate problems: the rising cost of materials and ...