Signal · Market & Economic Intelligence
G.17 Data for August 2026 are now available
What the source reported
Source-reportedIndustrial production and capacity utilization data for August 2026 are now available. Industrial production (IP) was unchanged in August after increasing 0.2 percent in July. Manufacturing output decreased 0.3 percent in August. The index for mining ticked up 0.1 percent, and the index for utilities increased 1.8 percent. At 103.1 percent of its 2017 average, total IP in August was 1.4 percent above its year-earlier level. Capacity utilization was unchanged at 76.3 percent, a rate that is 3.1 percentage points below its long-run (1972-2025) average.
- Publication
- Federal Reserve G.17 Release Announcements · Government/Regulator
- Published
- 18th September 2026
- Original report
- federalreserve.gov
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Market & Economic Intelligence
- Geography
- United States
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 26th September 2026 · 19:24
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (29.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (59.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth