(Finance) – Brake the industrial production in the United States in the month of August, with a negative change of 0.3% on a monthly basis, after the +0.3% of the previous month and against the -0.1% expected by analysts. On an annual basis, there was a negative change of 0.6% after the previous -0.2%.
There manufacturing production recorded a drop of 0.4% which compares with +0.5% in July (data revised from a preliminary of +0.9%).
In the same period the ability to use relating to all industrial sectors fell to 77.5%, lower than analysts’ estimates (77.9%), compared to 77.8% in the previous month.