Industrial Production Plunges, Fed Blames Weather
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
02/14/2014
Despite Utilities soaring 4.1%, the Federal Reserve “blames” the worst miss (and biggest drop) in Industrial Production since August 2012 on “severe weather” in some regions of the country. Capacity Utilization also tumbled – to its lowest since October. Numbers for November and December’s exuberance were revised lower in both series (that must be the weather effect being anticipated that weather would be bad in January!?!). There were 6 mentions of the word ‘weather’ in the report (just missing out of Deutsche’s Lavorgna with 8 yeaterday) as any weakness in macro data is due to unforeseeable events (weather in Winter) but any surprising beat is due to solid fundamentals underlying the real economy.
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