The component market, briefed every weekday morning
ComponentNews is a daily intelligence report for electronic-component brokers and procurement teams. Each morning it pulls together what moved overnight in shortages, lead times, end-of-life notices, freight and raw materials, and it cites a source for every claim.
What’s in each report
Action items first
Each report opens with up to five things to do today, such as “lock in a quote” or “check your exposure”. Each one comes with the evidence behind it.
Shortage & allocation alerts
Parts and product families going on allocation or running short, with the manufacturer, the severity and the source.
Lead times
Lead-time moves by category, so you can see which quotes are about to go stale.
EOL & last-time-buy notices
End-of-life and last-time-buy notices, collected from manufacturers’ product-change pages.
Freight lanes
Container freight rates for the main ocean lanes and indices, with week-over-week change and a sparkline of each laneOcean and air freight rates for the main lanes, with week-over-week change and a sparkline of the lane’s recent history.rsquo;s recent history.
Market snapshot
Brent, WTI, bunker fuel, gold, silver, copper and other inputs that drive component costs, each with its trend.
Risk monitor
Geopolitical, trade-policy and logistics risks rated critical, elevated, watch or stable, with the direction each one is moving.
Currency & macro
Exchange-rate moves and demand signals such as PMI and semiconductor sales, which tell you where pricing is likely to go.
Built to be trusted
Every claim is cited
Each factual statement links to a dated source: news outlets, manufacturer newsrooms, government agencies and industry bodies.
Every link is checked
A fact-checking pass opens every cited URL and checks its publication date. Dead, undated or out-of-window sources are replaced before the report goes out.
Daily and weekly
Daily recaps are published every morning, and the emailed brief goes out on weekdays. Each Sunday they are rolled up into a weekly report with shipping, currency, materials and shortage tables.
An archive back to 2009
Every report stays online. Browse by year from the Archive panel on the report page, link straight to any section of any report, and hover a sparkline to see a price or rate on a given week. Older years are still being filled in. Coverage is most complete from 2017 onward.
Get it in your inbox
The five action items, in your inbox every weekday morning. We’ll email you a link to confirm first.