United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index

The Manufacturing Activity Index in the US fifth district including the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and most of West Virginia fell to 3 in June 2019 from 5 in May, below market consensus of 7. Employment (2 from 17 in May), raw materials (27 from 37) and finished goods (21 from 26) dropped. Meanwhile, shipments (7 from 2) and new orders (1 from 0) improved. On the price front, price pressures eased for prices paid (1.58 from 2.21) while accelerated for prices received (1.68 from 1.53). Firms were optimistic about growth in the coming months. Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index in the United States averaged 2.79 Index Points from 1993 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 29 Index Points in September of 2018 and a record low of -44 Index Points in February of 2009.

Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index in the United States is expected to be -2.00 Index Points by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index in the United States to stand at -10.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index is projected to trend around 3.00 Index Points in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-03-26	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Mar	10	16	12	10
2019-04-23	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Apr	3	10	10	13
2019-05-29	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index May	5	3	6	5
2019-06-25	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Jun	3	5	7	-2
2019-07-23	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Jul		3	5	6
2019-08-27	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Aug				-4
2019-09-24	02:00 PM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index Sep				-7

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	51.70	52.10	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	50.60	50.50	57.90	50.50		[+]
Services PMI	51.50	50.90	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	55.10	56.90	62.00	37.80		[+]
Composite Pmi	51.50	50.90	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	1.30	2.10	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.00	0.40	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	0.40	0.70	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	77.92	78.09	89.39	66.69	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-1.30	-2.80	23.20	-18.40	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-0.60	-3.30	25.50	-19.20	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.30	-0.10	6.30	-10.20	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.10	0.20	4.60	-7.00	percent	[+]
New Orders	493569.00	499273.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-0.70	-1.20	10.40	-9.70	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.30	0.50	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	122.84	96.80	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.40	0.80	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22157.00	22232.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2012.30	2076.20	2076.82	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	103.30	105.00	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	4.30	-8.60	39.00	-34.40	Index Points	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	21.80	0.30	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	3.00	5.00	29.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	50.00	48.60	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	-0.05	-0.48	2.78	-5.27		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	-12.10	-5.30	47.60	-59.90	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	49.70	54.20	78.60	21.20	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.62	2.56	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	465.92	432.55	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.30	17.30	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-3.12	-9.50	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	62.00	81.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	3565.00	-1455.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	127.88	127.79	127.88	46.91	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	-1.40	-8.13	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	779.00	784.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	71.00	75.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	22.00	16.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	85.64	84.84	85.64	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	1.00	1.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	8.00	6.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7653.00	7428.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index	-3.00	2.00	37.00	-32.00	Index Points	[+]
Mining Production	8.70	10.70	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index

The Richmond Manufacturing Index measures the conditions of the manufacturing sector for the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and most of West Virginia. The index is derived from a survey of 190 manufacturing plants and based on three individual index with the following weights: Shipments (33 percent), New Orders (40 percent) and Employment (27 percent). The index can range between +100 and -100; a reading above zero indicates expansion, while below zero suggests a contraction. This page provides - United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2019.