the output of a country's productive industries. Until the 1960s, this commonly related to iron and steel or coal, but since then lighter engineering in automobile or robotics manufacture has taken over.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve has lowered its estimate of U.S. industrial production and plant use in December, suggesting the economy continues to show few signs of overheating.
This paper presents a rigurous framework for evaluating alternative forecasting methods for Chilean industrial production and sales. While nonlinear features appear to be important for forecasting the very short term, simple univariate linear models perform about as well for almost every forecasting horizon. This paper considers several time series models...
Briefly discusses the industrial development process in Brazil by highlighting a few examples of its social and environmental implications. The current environmental crisis for which the industrial sector is co-responsible puts evidence on the existing links between production and consumption cycles. In order to identify impacts at their origin, production...
Brad DeLong submits: The Federal Reserve: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Industrial production decreased 1.1 percent in August and was revised down in June and July to show smaller gains of 0.2 percent and 0.1 percent respectively. After little movement over the previous three months,...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) announced production cuts at six plants across North America on Wednesday, August 22, 2007, affecting its large sports utility and pickup truck markets. Beginning Monday, August 20, 2007, previously scheduled overtime production was eliminated at GM's plants....
In one more sign of a strengthening domestic economy, American factories, mines and utilities stepped up production in November, the Federal Reserve reported. The Fed said domestic industrial production increased sharply by 0.9 percent in Nov In one...
MONROVIA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 26, 1997--American Technologies Group Inc. ATG (OTC:ATEG) Friday announced an agreement with AARL Inc. of Juniper, Fla., one of the larger developers, manufacturers and marketers of industrial process enzymes, granting to AARL an exclusive license to use ATG's Ie Crystals in the production of industrial enzymes for...
Trade Radar Operator submits: Nearly lost in the din surrounding the failure of Lehman Bros LEH and the take-over of Merrill Lynch MER was the industrial production and capacity utilization report. The Federal Reserve released the numbers for August Monday. The results were below economists expectations and did...
OSAKA, Japan -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, today announced it will build a new 270,000 square-meter industrial park in the Hangzhou Economic & Technological Development Area Xia Sha, Zhejiang Province. The industrial park initiative will strategically position the Hangzhou area as the...
This report presents national data projections for the environmental and energy saving impacts resulting from this "third wave" in biotechnology. The report, prepared by BIO and independent consultants, highlights benefits already being realized in several major industrial sectors, including pulp and paper production, textiles, and transportation fuel. For instance, if...
Trade Radar Operator submits: Nearly lost in the din surrounding the failure of Lehman Bros LEH and the take-over of Merrill Lynch MER was the industrial production and capacity utilization report.The Federal Reserve released the numbers for August Monday. The results were below economists expectations and did nothing to...
Hurricane Katrina reduced the rate of change in total industrial production by an estimated 0.3%, the Federal Reserve Bank said. Hurricane Katrina contributed to a drop of 1.1% in the production of ... Hurricane Katrina reduced the rate of change in total industrial ...
This article finds that the yield spread of investment grade bonds relative to treasuries, a proxy of default risk, predicts marginal changes in industrial production in the united states up to 12 months in the future, even upon controlling for a commonly used predictor such as the commercial paper spread....
NEW YORK -- The nation's industrial output rose by a slender 0.1 percent in November, the Federal Reserve reported, the first advance in six months. It was the first overall improvement in Industrial Production since a 0.7 percent improvement in Ju NEW YORK --...
00-00-0000 COMPANIES AREN'T EXACTLY WRITING off the Balkans. But the hard truth is that with industrial production down 90%, chances are slim for an industrial revival anytime soon in Muslim-Croat and Bosnian-Serb ... 00-00-0000 COMPANIES AREN'T EXACTLY WRITING off the Balkans. But the...
Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- After announcing its first profit in almost a year during the first quarter of 2008, Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) (Dearborn, Michigan) has announced significant production cuts as a result of rising gas prices and a re-examination of its production strategy. With...
WASHINGTON Bloomberg -- U.S. industrial production fell in October, the fourth drop in five months, giving the Federal Reserve leeway to lower interest rates again this year.
Menzie Chinn submits: Only on a day like yesterday does an over 1 percent decrease in industrial output move to third page. But this item (and this hilarious article h/t Economists View) reminded me to update the indicators used by the NBER BCDC. Their trajectories are, in general, not...
Local production of pharmaceuticals in developing countries may be seen as helping to stimulate industrial policy and/or as stimulating pharmaceutical "access" to needed medicines. However, if a developing country with manufacturing facilities is able to finish off bulk active ingredients sourced from developed or other countries at high costs, such...
THE DEREGULATION OF THE POWER industry presents enormous opportunities and pitfalls for industrial gas manufacturers, who spend nearly 70 percent of their production costs on electricity. Industrial gas producers stand to save millions of dollars, bu THE DEREGULATION OF THE POWER industry presents enormous opportunities...
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