Cass Freight Index
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Economics
Cass Shipments Index falls for 5th straight month, sparks concerns of economic contraction
April shipments were down 3.2 percent year-over-year, prompting Boughton to acknowledge “material and growing downside risk to the economic outlook”…
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Economics
Cass freight indexes continue record climbs, while spot market rates hold steady
The Cass Truckload Linehaul Index reached another record high in October while the company’s Intermodal Price Index points to rising…
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Company earnings
Transportation costs push PepsiCo profits in Q3
In her final conference call as CEO, PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi presented their third-quarter results, once more pointing to transportation costs…
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News
Cass indexes show strength in freight markets across the board
The Cass indexes are showing no signs of a freight slowdown, despite some concern that a peak may have been…
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News
Cass Freight Index surges through June
Flatbed demand, railroads’ chemical carload volumes, and the price of WTI crude are all bullish signals for an historically hot…
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News
Citing freight costs, declining sales, General Mills to cut 625 jobs
Citing depressed sales for products like its line of Yoplait yogurts and ‘rising commodity and freight expenses,’ General Mills announced…
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News
Today’s Pickup: freight markets see strong demand, low volatility
Trucking contract rate increases tamp down volatility; Nikola Motor Company returns deposits on truck orders; Hunter Harrison was one of the…
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Economics
Economic outlook from freight’s perspective
This week we are using the Cass Information Systems data to review what is happening in the economy overall.
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