Supply & Demand

Supply chain delays are always challenging. But during the holidays, slow shipping can make or break a company's bottom line. Today on the show, a toy company that makes Tonka trucks musters a shipment tracking war room.

Hat tip to Jessica for sharing this interactive. Home prices in many markets have rocketed skyward during the pandemic. While many note the supply/demand imbalances that have been driving prices, there's another factor at work here. Namely, the costs of construction materials for new homes have seen significant increases which get passed along to the buyers in the form of higher prices.  In this interactive from Bloomberg, students will be able to see recent price changes in the various components of a home (e.g., foundation, trusses, drywall):  Questions:  Which building materials had the largest increase (in dollars)?

Prices and demand surged, just as supplies dwindled.

An incredible visualisation of global shipping traffic, created by Kiln.digital and the UCL Energy Institute.

Two very different forms of liquid gold are managed as part of a strategic reserve, but both of them are seeing part of their reserve released to help lower prices in the US and Canada.

This article was written by UC Davis ARE PhD student Hyunjung Lee.  It is the third in a series of excellent articles written by students in my ARE 231 class this fall.

Over 53 million Americans will travel for the Thanksgiving holiday this year, an increase of 13% from 2020, AAA predicts.

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

Empty car dealerships, long waits to get a PS5, and computers that are taking weeks and sometimes months to arrive. Blame the microchip shortage. But how did we get here? Dan Toomey is here to tell you why in this week's episode of Brew Breakdown. Missed last week's episode? Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQnBpemRB-c&t #MicrochipShortage #SupplyChain #MorningBrew Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew

Weekly Top 10 lists of the globally most-watched TV and films on Netflix.

Remember back in 2018 when gas prices were at record levels, and we started seeing gas surcharges pop up? History has been known to repeat itself.

To be fair, this is not a question we commonly receive from donors or those interested in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but when people do ask about the different between carbon offsets and carbon credits, and sometimes carbon dioxide equivalents, it shows an intense interest in the subject and usually a strong commitment to fighting […]

Holiday season shipping is making supply chain problems worse, but there’s hope for next year.

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What travelers should expect when the U.S. reopens its international air and land borders next week.

If a company wants to give people way too much money for their homes and then sell them at a loss … great!

"It's definitely higher than a normal operating basis we like to see," HanesBrands CEO Steve Bratspies told CNBC on Thursday.

The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest port in America. It's also at the center of a massive container backlog.

California’s Port of Los Angeles is struggling to keep up with the crush of cargo containers arriving at its terminals, creating one of the biggest choke points

The pandemic has seen far fewer students go to college — that trend continued this fall, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Masco Corp. is benefitting from continued strong demand for its paint and plumbing products, but supply chain kinks and rising raw material costs are hurting profitability.Part of the solution, according to executives of the Livonia-based manufacturer, is passing costs onto customers. That means do…

Scientists have been trying to achieve xenotransplantation—animal to human transplants—5ever.

Companies are rebuilding their supply of goods, which isn’t the easiest thing to do with bottlenecks in the supply chain.