Each quarter, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) surveys its members on a variery of financial, operational and other issue. The Q1 report was released a week ago.

As always, it includes this nice infographic, summaring key results, as shown below:

Source: NAM

A lot of data in a fairly small space. As can be seen, manufacturers are bullish - 88.8% are positive on their company's outlooks.

Meanwhile, costs are seen rising - wages up 3.8%, and healthcare insurance costs seen rising a hefty 7.9%,         

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