Industrial production expands 0.9% in January compared to 0.5% expected

  • Industrial production in the US continued to expand at a solid rate in January.
  • The US Dollar DXY Index is holding on to gains around the 91.00 level after the data.

Industrial production in the United States expanded 0.9% on a monthly basis in January, the Federal Reserve of the United States reported on Wednesday. This reading arrives after December increase of 1.3% and was better than the market expectation of 0.5%.

Additional comments:

“Manufacturing production increased 1.0%, roughly the same as its average gain for the previous five months.”

“Capacity utilization for the industrial sector increased 0.7% in January to 75.6%, a rate that is 4.0% below its long-term average (1972-2020).”

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