{"id":10929,"date":"2010-09-16T11:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:02:35","slug":"industrial-production-half-full-or-half-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/16\/industrial-production-half-full-or-half-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Production: Half Full or Half Empty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent reports for ISM are still showing that the economy is cooling. While we could try to find a silver lining in all of this (see below), it is still a very choppy recovery &#8211; at best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Click on each chart to enlarge<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briefing.com\"><strong>Briefing.com<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As expected, industrial production weakened in August, growing only 0.2% versus a 0.6% jump in July. The Briefing.com consensus called for production to increase 0.3%.<\/li>\n<li>Although manufacturing production increased just 0.2%, that headline number was unduly influenced by a drop-off in motor vehicle production. The manufacturing sector overall looks to be in reasonably good shape at this point in the economic recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Excluding the motor vehicle sector, manufacturing production increased 0.6% in August, well above the 0.1% growth rate in July.<br \/>\nCapacity utilization increased from 74.6% in July to 74.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent reports for ISM are still showing that the economy is cooling. While we could try to find a silver lining in all of this (see below), it is still a very choppy recovery &#8211; at best. Click on each chart to enlarge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-10929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}