Industrial production moved up 0.2 percent in November after posting an upwardly revised increase of 1.2 percent in October. Total Industrial Production was 106.4 percent of its 2012 average in November and was 3.4 percent above its year-earlier level. Capacity utilization for the industrial sector was 77.1 percent in November, a rate that is 2.8 percentage points below its long-run (1972–2016) average.

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