US Data: Kansas City Fed Diffusion Indexes - Summary

Release for: October 2018

Source: Kansas City Federal Reserve

Diffusion Indexes, seasonally adjusted except year/year

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                                 m/m     m/m       y/y     y/y        6m      6m

                              Oct-18  Sep-18    Oct-18  Sep-18    Oct-18  Sep-18

Manufacturing Indexes

Composite Index                    8      13        45      41        21      27

Production                         5      10        54      44        37      38

Volume of shipments               14       2        50      42        34      34

Volume of new orders               7      15        57      46        41      35

Backlog of orders                  6       4        40      41        27      17

Number of employees                8       1        49      36        15      29

Average employee workweek          4       3        30      24         7      14

Prices rcvd for fin

product                           19      24        60      56        38      44

Prices paid for raw matl          33      45        78      79        37      57

Capital expenditures             n/a     n/a        30      47        14      36

New orders for exports             3       1        11      11         8      15

Supplier delivery time*            8      18        27      35        11      18

Inventories:

Materials                         10      20        37      45         3      17

Plants' finished goods             7       7        21      31        -5       9

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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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