US industrial production advanced 0.7% in April.

THE Federal Reserve (Fed) announced this Friday (15) that the United States industrial production The Brazilian government registered a 0.7% increase in April, above the revised 0.3% decrease of the previous month. The market expected an advance of 0.3%. The capacity utilization rate was 76.1% in April, above the previous month's result (75.7%) and market expectations (75.8%). Despite the increase in capacity, performance is 3.3 percentage points below the long average (1972-2025), "signaling significant idle capacity and no bottleneck pressures in the immediate horizon," explains the report. FROM THE Economics.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.