US Manufacturing Production Contracts For 7th Straight Month, Capacity Utilization Tumbles After falling for 3 of the last 4 months, and following Germany's disastrous January print, US Industrial Production was expected to drop by 0.2% but yet again it disappointed, falling 0.3% MoM. Source: Bloomberg This means US Industrial Production has contracted year-over-year for 5 straight months. Utilities fell 4% in Jan. after falling 6.2% in Dec. (warm weather-related?) Mining rose 1.2% in Jan. after rising 1.5% in Dec. In the manufacturing segment, production slipped 0.1% MoM, matching expectations, but is down year-over-year for the seventh straight month... Source: Bloomberg Finally, we note that Capacity Utilization slumped to 76.8% - the lowest since Source: Bloomberg And this is before the impact of the virus had fully hit global supply chains. Tyler Durden Fri, 02/14/2020 - 09:21