US industrial production rose a better than expected 0.6% MoM in June (double the 0.3% jump expected but slower than the 0.9% surge in May). This pulled industrial production up 1.6% YoY - the best since Oct 2022...
Source: Bloomberg
Manufacturing production also surge in June (jumping 0.4% MoM vs +0.1% exp) and May was revised up from 0.9% to +1.0% MoM). That MoM jump pulled the YoY change up to +1.1%...
Source: Bloomberg
Capacity Utilization also increased significantly to 78.8% in June...
Source: Bloomberg
It's not all sunshine and rainbows though as computer and peripheral equipment production puked in June (most since COVID lockdowns) as Utes saved the month...
Source: Bloomberg
Is this good news gonna help the bad news-sponsored rate-cut euphoria?
