December 2007
Following a brief dalliance in growth territory a month ago, NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions slipped from 52.2 to 47.8 in December. This suggests a modest reversal in business conditions from November, when survey results had signaled the first month-to-month improvement since April. Full Report(179k)

November 2007
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions rebounded sharply in November, rising by more than 15 points from a month ago. At 52.2, the index signaled the first month-to-month improvement in business conditions since April. Full Report (177k)

October 2007
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) lost ground in October, dropping by nearly 11 points to 37 from 47.9 a month ago. October was the fourth consecutive month, and the fifth in the last six, in which the index has failed to reach 50 points. These results indicate that external conditions facing electrical equipment manufacturers have deteriorated steadily in recent months. Full Report (177k)

September 2007
Deterioration in North American business conditions slowed in the most recent month according to NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI). Though it again failed to reach 50, and therefore signaled industry contraction for a third straight month, the index for current North American conditions increased by nearly nine points from August to 47.9.  Full Report  (123k)

August 2007
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions slid for a second month in a row in August, dropping by 6.5 to 39.1. A reading of less than 50 is indicative of contractionary conditions. That August’s figure declined in absolute terms from a July reading itself below 50 suggests that the deterioration in conditions accelerated from a month ago. Full Report  (124k)

July 2007
NEMA’s July Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions gave up some of the sizable gain it had recorded a month ago. The index dipped to 45.7 from 50 in June, implying that business conditions facing the industry worsened slightly during the past month. Concurrently, the survey’s measure of the mean degree of change in North American business conditions slipped to –0.3 from +0.1 in June (on a scale from –5 [deteriorated significantly] through 0 [stayed the same] to +5 [improved significantly]). Full Report (276k)

June 2007
Current business conditions in North America are considerably improved compared to last month, according to the results of the Electroindustry Business Confidence Survey of senior executives. Having improved from 38.6 to 50.0 in June, the index now sits squarely astride the threshold indicating that conditions are favorable to growth. Although this month’s score just touches, but does not cross, the growth line, the sharp rebound from May’s reading suggests that last month may have been a bit of an aberration. Full Report (134k)

May 2007
Following on the heels of two months of expansion, North American business conditions softened in May, according to senior industry executives responding to NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Survey. The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions slipped to 38.6 in the latest month from 62 in April, its highest level in a year. Full Report  (176k)

April 2007
North American business conditions improved for the second month in a row in April, according to senior industry executives responding to NEMA’s monthly Electroindustry Business Confidence Survey. The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions climbed to 62 in April, its highest level in a year. The index rose from 56.5 in March, indicating that the pace of improvement in conditions accelerated in the most recent month. In February the index stood at the "break-even" mark of 50, suggesting that conditions were flat relative to the prior month. Full Report  (179k)

March 2007
North American business conditions improved for the first time in eight months in March, according to senior industry executives responding to NEMA’s monthly Electroindustry Business Confidence Survey. The Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American conditions climbed to 56.5 for the month, its highest level since April 2006. That represents a significant improvement from February, when the index stood at the "break-even" mark of 50, suggesting conditions were flat relative to the prior month. Moreover, the survey’s measure of the mean degree of change in North American business conditions remained in positive territory for a second straight month, rising to +0.2 from +0.1 a month ago. As recently as December, it had registered as low as -0.6 (on a scale from –5 [deteriorated significantly] through 0 [stayed the same] to +5 [improved significantly]). Full Report  (181k)

February 2007
February was a healthy month for the electroindustry, and the future appears bright as well, according to senior industry executives responding to NEMA’s monthly Electroindustry Business Confidence Survey. Seven of the eight EBCI indexes improved from January (and the eighth was unchanged), while six of the eight, including all four future conditions gauges, flashed readings in excess of 50 points, the threshold level indicative of growth in the industry.   Full Report (180k)

January 2007
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) for current North American business conditions rebounded in January following two consecutive months of decline at the close of 2006. At 41.3, January’s mark rose more than ten points from a month ago and reached its highest level since last October. Though still falling shy of the key 50-point threshold indicative of growth in the industry, the result suggests that the rate of deterioration of electroindustry business conditions slowed considerably relative to December.  Full Report (124k)