G17: The base year for the G.17 data was advanced to 2012

Published on August 13, 2015

The annual revision to the G.17 statistics on industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity utilization, which was published on July 21, 2015, advanced the comparison base year to 2012. Future monthly releases, including the G.17 publication that will be issued tomorrow, August 14, 2015, will reflect this change.

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H15: Correction to the federal funds rate for the week ending August 7, 2015

August 11, 2015
The weekly H.15 release issued on Monday, August 10, 2015, has been corrected. The federal funds rate published for the week ending August 7, 2015, should have been 0.11 (rather than 0.14).

G17: G.17 Data for July 2015 are now available

August 14, 2015
Industrial production and capacity utilization data for July 2015 are now available.Industrial production increased 0.6 percent in July after moving up 0.1 percent in June. In July, manufacturing output advanced 0.8 percent primarily because of an increase in motor vehicle assemblies. The output of motor vehicles and parts jumped 10.6 percent, and production elsewhere in manufacturing edged up 0.1