Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

Markets Are Ignoring Manufacturers' Glum Message

Investors may not want to believe it, but the hoped-for industrial rebound looks tentative at best.

January 31, 2020 at 2:56 PM UTC

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

A second-half pickup in activity is far from assured.
Photographer: Dadang Tri/Bloomberg

Provide news feedback or report an error

Site feedback:

Take our Survey

This article is for subscribers only.

The stock market’s blind optimism is colliding with industrial CEOs’ realism.

Caterpillar Inc. and Honeywell International Inc. rounded out a busy week of earnings for the manufacturing sector on Friday, with both companies pointing to a continuing slide in growth in 2020 that flies in the face of expectations for a swift rebound following the signing of the U.S.-China trade deal.