Category Archives: Industrial Production

What are the odds of Brazil’s industrial output reaching market expectations?

Market expectations for Brazil’s industrial production in 2012 continue to be overly optimistic. In order to achieve the annual growth the market expects (1,92% according to the latest central bank’s survey), the average monthly growth rate for the remainder of … Continue reading

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Oil Spill: UK mining continues to fall

Mining and quarrying might not be much more than 2% of UK GDP but it’s falling fast – really fast – and last year alone accounted for about 0.3 percentage points off growth. In current times, this is significant. The … Continue reading

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UK GDP and falling production

The first quarter GDP figures for 2012 were inconclusive so far as the growth debate was concerned, they were more of the same. As you can see from the chart below, GDP growth continues to stall after the sharp drop … Continue reading

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Brazil’s government extends another helping hand to industry

Domestic industry continues to struggle in Brazil, as output hovers below levels seen before the global financial crisis and below last year’s levels (see chart below). The government views cheap imports as the culprit and has moved to weaken the … Continue reading

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India: A number too sweet

What should we make of the latest industrial production data published by India’s Central Statistics Office? On 12 April, when releasing the February data for the index of industrial production (IIP), the office announced that the January numbers had been … Continue reading

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