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Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization Increase in November

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From the Fed: Industrial production and Capacity Utilization

Industrial production increased 0.8 percent in November after having been unchanged in October. Manufacturing production advanced 1.1 percent, with broad-based gains among both durables and nondurables. ... At 99.4 percent of its 2002 average, total industrial production was 5.1 percent below its level of a year earlier. Capacity utilization for total industry moved up 0.7 percentage point to 71.3 percent, a rate 9.6 percentage points below its average for the period from 1972 through 2008.

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This graph shows Capacity Utilization. This series is up from the record low set in June (the series starts in 1967), and still well below the level of last year.

Note: y-axis doesn't start at zero to better show the change.

Full post as published by Calculated Risk on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).

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