US industry capacity utilization was 79.8 percent last March, up 1.4 percent from March 2022 to March 2023. At the same time, industrial production rose 0.4 percent in March and was little changed in the first quarter, increasing at an annual rate of 0.2 percent. In particular, manufacturing
Of all imported sugar (cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form), Brazil is the world’s leading supplier. From 2021 to 2022, Brazilian exports of this type of sugar increased 20%, to 11,004 million dollars, according to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Economy. Which
The Sonora Plan includes the development of five photovoltaic power plants with a combined generation capacity of 5 Giga Watts (GW), the equivalent of supplying electricity to 6.8 million Mexican homes per year, according to the SHCP. It will also promote the assembly of vehicles in the north
France led exports of vehicles for transporting 10 or more people worldwide in 2022, with shipments of $929 million. After recording exports of these vehicles for $1.329 billion in 2019, this indicator dropped to $1.211 billion in 2020 and then rose slightly to $1.235 billion in 2021, according
The IMF in April revised upward its estimate of Eurozone GDP growth for 2023 to 0.8%, from its estimate of 0.7% in its January 2022 report. It highlights the heterogeneity among countries in the region. For example, for Spain the estimated real annual growth is 1.5% and for
Private consumption in Mexico has grown at a moderate pace, driven by the recovery in the consumption of services, according to Inegi and the Bank of Mexico (Banxico). At the end of 2022, Mexico’s GDP continued to advance, albeit with a deceleration from the performance observed in the