Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Market Sensitivity: Medium.
What Is It: Records U.S. industry's output and its spare capacity.
News Release on the Internet: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/current
Home Web Address: www.federalreserve.gov
Release Time: 9:15 A.M. (ET); released around the fifteenth of the month and reports on the previous month.
Frequency: Monthly.
Source: Federal Reserve Board.
Revisions: Modest changes are made over the subsequent three months, followed by an annual revision in the fall, usually November.
Why Is It Important
Any economic indicator released by the Federal Reserve is automatically noticed by investors around the world. This is, after all, the agency that conducts U.S. monetary policy and controls ...
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