Tuesday, May 17, 2011

US Industrial Production and Japan

This survey measures Manufacturing, Mining and Utilities. For April, Mining and Utilities did just fine but Vehicle manufacturing slumped due to supply chain woes from Japan. This is a one-off event and will not greatly bother the markets. It bothers us though as a few days following the tragedy in Japan, we predicted supply considerations, while a problem, would not be so severe.


Robert Craven

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