WSJ: US manufacturers are stocking up on imports ahead of tariffs
WSJ reports: U.S. manufacturers are stockpiling imported parts and raw materials in anticipation of President-elect Donald Trump imposing ...
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL reports:
Big companies including AT&T, Keurig Dr Pepper and Krispy Kreme are pulling back on a type of short-term financing that gives them more time to pay their invoices.
These agreements with vendors, known as supply-chain or vendor financing, are popular because they allow buyers to hold on to their cash longer, and the short-term financing typically isn’t counted as debt on corporate balance sheets. But higher interest rates are changing the equation for some companies.
AT&T is paying down a program that has seen sharply rising interest rates since the Federal Reserve began hiking rates two years ago. “We used that as a cheap form of financing” when rates were at record-low levels, said Pascal Desroches, chief financial officer at AT&T. But those obligations have grown too expensive, Desroches said…
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