US October industrial production and capacity utilization data
- prior was -1.3%
- industrial production 1.6% versus 0.7% estimate.
- capacity utilization 76.4% versus 75.9% estimate.
- prior capacity utilization 75.2%
- Manufacturing production 1.2% versus 0.7% estimate. Last month manufacturing production came in at -0.7%
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The data is much stronger than expectations. Last month, the data was much weaker than expectations (e.g. Capacity Utilization was expected at 76.5 but came in at 75.2% last month. The industrial production was expected at +0.2% but came in at -1.3%).
The rebound brings the data more or less back in line, and suggest that dip last month may have been supply chain issues. Regardless, it is a positive on top of the better retail sales released earlier .
