Ethanol stocks are high, while production-capacity utilization is down at the unusually low rate of 85%.
However, unemployment will have fallen, capacity utilization will have rise, and investment will have increased.
U.S. refining capacity utilization rate hit 90% while the international utilization rate was an impressive 96%.
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From 2002 to late 2007 the capacity utilization of undersea fiber optic cable barely moved.
The company's break-even point for capacity utilization is one of the best in the industry worldwide.
Average hourly real wages flattened out in an environment of mid-seventies capacity utilization in the country.
Manufacturing output was unchanged in May but the rate of capacity utilization across industries dropped 0.2%.
At 76.9%, the most recent capacity utilization rate is well below the long-term average of 80.4%.
We have also adjusted margins downward to reflect the lower expected capacity utilization.
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The governing metric is capacity utilization for the country and it shows a flattish line at the mid-seventies level.
In manufacturing, capacity utilization is at 40 year highs, Darby tells Forbes, while capital expenditures are near 40-year lows.
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U.S. economic data due for release Monday includes the Empire State manufacturing survey, and industrial production and capacity utilization.
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Today Daewoo's factories, which had produced so few cars they turned down the thermostat, have now doubled their capacity utilization.
Global production reached 1.54 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) per day, while refining capacity utilization rate stood at 91%.
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Capacity utilization is already below its average level and many other indicators of economic slack reflect more supply than demand.
Meanwhile, capital goods expenditures remain depressed along with industrial capacity utilization, a leading indicator for rising allocations sooner or later.
Industrial production in May was up 4.3% over a year ago, and capacity utilization is at 82%, above the historical average.
Tuesday will feature July housing starts and building permits, July industrial production and capacity utilization, and July import and export prices.
And last this writer checked, Zimbabwe is nowhere near achieving full employment or capacity utilization, yet it suffers hyperinflation just the same.
In the sixties, seventies, even in the eighties, 75 percent capacity utilization was synonymous with recession, but no longer since the mid-nineties.
It will cut back because capacity utilization numbers are weakening, now at around 80%, well below the 85% level of boom times.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes Treasury international capital data, industrial production and capacity utilization, and quarterly e-commerce retail sales.
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Stepping back from somewhat dreary coincident indicators on unemployment, retail sales, industrial production and capacity utilization, there's another world out there that's unsung.
We will experience this as a fall in the unemployment rate, a rise in capital goods orders and a rise in capacity utilization.
The increased orders improved capacity utilization which we expect to result in gross margin also exceeding the high end of our previous guidance.
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After all, capacity utilization the ratio between demand and the maximum number of units factories could produce points to considerable slack.
According to the Federal Reserve, there has been a steady increase in industrial production and capacity utilization since the end of last year.
The consumer price index and industrial production and capacity utilization data all came in very close to pre-report expectations by the market place.
Until companies increase their rate of capacity utilization from 77.5% to over the long run average of 80%, they will remain reluctant to hire.
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As a result, very little, if any, excess liquidity spilled over into imprudent hands as indicated by the current low inflation and low capacity utilization.
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