Small rise in Caterpillar global sales

May 19, 2017

Caterpillar reports sales of its machines through its dealers world-wide – a baromoeter of construction and mining performance  – rose one percent for the 3-month rolling period ended April.

[caption id="attachment_83459" align="alignright" width="300"] Caterpillar US sales for past three months are down[/caption]

But Caterpillar dealer sales in the US for the same period were down 7% while Latin American sales were down 30%.

The Asia/Pacific region boomed with sales up 47%.

World-wide sales in resource industries were down 19%  with Latin American sales fairing the worse, down 69%.  US sales in the sector were down 13%.