Cass Freight Index
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Air Cargo
Cass predicts economic contraction after eighth consecutive month of shipping declines
The July Cass Information Systems Inc. Freight Shipments Index sounded dire warnings for an economic contraction following the eighth consecutive month of negative year-over-year numbers.
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Chart of the Week
Average price of diesel has become a solid barometer for freight activity, here is why
The price of diesel fuel has an obvious impact on transportation providers costs, but it also can give insight into demand for their services.
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Air Cargo
Today’s Pickup: Drone app wants to control the skies
Drones could someday deliver thousands of packages a day, but who will monitor all this air traffic?
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News
June Cass report presents a couple of alarming questions
The Cass Freight Index Report offers two questions. “Has economic contraction already begun? Will GDP be negative in Q2?”
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News
Cass data negative in May, “signaling an economic contraction”
The report showed further deceleration in the freight markets in May and warns an economic contraction could be underway.
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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” in the latest Cass Freight…
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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 intermodal costs.
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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 that threatened to eat into…
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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 reached.
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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 freight environment to continue through…
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