US Data: Kansas City Fed Diffusion Indexes - Summary

Release for: February 2019

Source: Kansas City Federal Reserve

Diffusion Indexes, seasonally adjusted except year/year

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

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                              Feb-19  Jan-19    Feb-19  Jan-19    Feb-19  Jan-19

Manufacturing Indexes

Composite Index                    1       5        23      31        13      18

Production                        -4       2        13      26        18      33

Volume of shipments              -14       6        10      19        15      30

Volume of new orders             -10       1        15      28        13      25

Backlog of orders                -18     -13        16      19         4      17

Number of employees               10       7        44      38        28      22

Average employee workweek          0       7         4      19         5      10

Prices rcvd for fin

product                           18      23        52      53        34      40

Prices paid for raw matl          19      23        73      69        43      49

Capital expenditures             n/a     n/a        11      26        12      33

New orders for exports            -2     -10        -6      -4        -3      -4

Supplier delivery time*           10      14        19      25        12      13

Inventories:

Materials                         -2       4        24      36        -4      -2

Plants' finished goods             4       8        14      27         2      -5

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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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