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Purchasing Magazine's Business Intelligence Center offers market intelligence and data on a range of US industrial sectors, including chemicals.

This web-based subscription service offers current prices, indexes tracking buyers' pricing expectations, product supply conditions and business tracking indexes on metals and metal products, electronic equipment and devices, and a selection of chemicals. Data is tabulated across the US economy although some regional data is available.

The Business Intelligence Center offers:

  • Transaction Pricing Data on over 200 products used in business and industry histories plus monthly updates and some quarterly forecasts available

  • Buyers' Outlook predictions of 30-day price trends for more than 160 commonly purchased industrial products.

  • Product Leadtimes tracking national average delivery speeds for more than 160 commonly purchased industrial products.

  • Business Indexes compiling current order rates, buyers' inventory strategies and forward buying plans

    For more information on the Business Intelligence Centre click here.

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