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US Data: Kansas City Fed Diffusion Indexes - Summary>

Release for: July 2017
Source: Kansas City Federal Reserve (10th District)
Diffusion indexes, seas adjusted except year/year
                                 m/m    m/m     y/y    y/y      6m     6m
                               Jul-17 Jun-17  Jul-17 Jun-17  Jul-17 Jun-17
Manufacturing Indexes
 Composite Index                   10     11      23     28      19     25
 Production                         4     23      28     43      29     42
 Volume of shipments               -2     23      33     39      34     37
 Volume of new orders              10      4      37     35      25     39
 Backlog of orders                 -1     -6      21     19      10     12
 Number of employees               15     15      22     24      26     32
 Average employee workweek          1      7      15     11      17     10
 Prices rcvd for fin product        5     -2      20     15      13     21
 Prices paid for raw matl          18     16      44     47      36     49
 Capital expenditures            #N/A   #N/A      15     12      16     16
 New orders for exports            -2      3       0      7       0     11
 Supplier delivery time*           10      8      19     15      14     11
 Inventories:
  Materials                        10      2      10     22       4      0
  Plants' finished goods            7     -2       7     10      17      7
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*Diffusion index is the difference between the percentage of total
respondents reporting increases and percentage reporting decreases
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