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

       ** MNI Washington Bureau (202) 371-2121 **

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