WASHINGTON – Industrial production increased 0.3 percent in June after having been unchanged in May, the U.S. Federal Reserve said Tuesday.
For the second quarter as a whole, industrial production moved up at an annual rate of 0.6 percent.
In June, manufacturing production rose 0.3 percent following an increase of 0.2 percent in May. The output at mines advanced 0.8 percent in June, while the output of utilities decreased 0.1 percent. At 99.1 percent of its 2007 average, total industrial production was 2.0 percent above its year-earlier level.
The rate of capacity utilization for total industry edged up 0.1 percentage point to 77.8 percent, a rate that was 0.1 percentage point above its level of a year earlier but 2.4 percentage points below its long-run (1972–2012) average.
