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Industrial Buyer's Breakdown: Tracking the Economic Impact of the Pandemic

The weekly program tracks trends in industrial purchasing and how spending is being impacted by COVID-19-related challenges.

Cortera, in partnership with Moody’s Analytics, recently launched the COVID-19 Economic Impact Tracker (CEIT). The tool provides a breakdown of purchasing data from thousands of companies in various sectors of the U.S economy. Every week, our editors will sit down with Jim Swift, the founder and CEO of Cortera to discuss the tracker’s latest data and what they mean to purchasing trends throughout the industrial marketplace.

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