{"id":472,"date":"2010-08-17T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intuitiveinvestor.com\/web\/?p=472"},"modified":"2018-08-17T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:45:17","slug":"industry-is-strengthening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2010\/08\/17\/industry-is-strengthening\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry is strengthening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Dating back to the spring of 2009 industrial production in the United States has been one of the strongest economic sectors.\u00a0 So when industrial production slipped in June along with other\u00a0disappointing economic\u00a0news, there was a mini-panic.\u00a0 However, July&#8217;s numbers were again positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Federal Reserve reports this morning that U.S. industrial production was up 1% in July.\u00a0 Additionally, capacity utilization rose to 74.8% from 74.1%.\u00a0 These results were better than expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong> These numbers are more symbolically important than actually important because industrial production is but a small piece of the U.S. economic pie.\u00a0 What was important is that sans automobile production, output was still positive.\u00a0 This is important because auto sales have been very strong in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong>Importance grade:<\/strong> 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating back to the spring of 2009 industrial production in the United States has been one of the strongest economic sectors.\u00a0 So when industrial production slipped in June along with other\u00a0disappointing economic\u00a0news, there was a mini-panic.\u00a0 However, July&#8217;s numbers were again positive. The Federal Reserve reports this morning that U.S. industrial production was up 1% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}