http://oregon.clucerf.org Center for Economic Research and Forecasting Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:06:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://oregon.clucerf.org/2010/02/industrial-production/ http://oregon.clucerf.org/2010/02/industrial-production/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:32:16 +0000 Dan Hamilton http://oregon.clucerf.org/2010/02/industrial-production/ Today’s not-much-noticed Industrial Production data release showed that January’s Industrial Production was up a bit from December. This report also indicated that capacity utilization increased a bit in January from December. Notice, charts below, capacity utilization and industrial production have been improving for 6 months now. This is enough to indicate a trend, indicating . . . → Read More: Industrial Production]]> Today’s not-much-noticed Industrial Production data release showed that January’s Industrial Production was up a bit from December. This report also indicated that capacity utilization increased a bit in January from December. Notice, charts below, capacity utilization and industrial production have been improving for 6 months now. This is enough to indicate a trend, indicating that manufacturing and related sectors are slowly coming to back to life. The levels of these indicators are still low within a longer historical perspective; see the longer Industrial Production chart below. At the current rate of improvement, we might get to healthier levels by midyear.

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