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Alt30 Business & Industry Monitor · 2026-09-24
American industry, with our read on it.
Output, orders and inventories, refreshed from FRED, with Alt30's take on each number.
Alt30 Business & Industry MonitorSep 24, 2026United StatesPilot edition · unsponsored
Production
How much the economy is making, and how hard it's running.
Industrial production (YoY) is +1.4%, up 0.3 pp over the past mo. Capacity utilization is 76.27%, down 0.05 pp over the past mo.
+1.4%
Industrial production (YoY) · +0.3 pp/mo · as of 2026-08-01
76.27%
Capacity utilization · -0.05 pp/mo · as of 2026-08-01
Orders & investment
What businesses are ordering, and what they're investing in.
Durable goods orders (YoY) is +12.0%, up 4.3 pp over the past mo. Core capital goods orders (YoY) is +12.6%, down 0.9 pp over the past mo.
+12.0%
Durable goods orders (YoY) · +4.3 pp/mo · as of 2026-07-01
+12.6%
Core capital goods orders (YoY) · -0.9 pp/mo · as of 2026-07-01
Inventories
How much stock is sitting on shelves relative to sales.
Business inventories (YoY) is +3.8%, up 0.7 pp over the past mo. Inventory-to-sales ratio held at 1.3.
+3.8%
Business inventories (YoY) · +0.7 pp/mo · as of 2026-07-01
1.3
Inventory-to-sales ratio · +0.0/mo · as of 2026-07-01
Data in this edition
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), St. Louis Fed; each series stamped with its own release date
- Output & capacity: Federal Reserve Board; orders & inventories: U.S. Census Bureau
Sources carry different vintages and lags by design and are never combined inside one figure. The write-up's caveats section says what the index does and does not claim.
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Alt30 (2026). Alt30 Business & Industry Monitor, Weekly (v0.1.0). Alt30. https://portal.alt-30.com/reports/business-industry
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