June manufacturing sales data
Prior was +1.4%
- Sales at $58.1 billion
- Volume terms +0.7%
- Ex-autos +0.9%
- Utilization 83.5% vs 82.8% prior
- Inventories +0.5% to $82.1 billion
The increase in June was mainly due to sharply higher sales in the petroleum and coal product industry (+15.9%), while sales were down in the chemicals (-4.5%) and food manufacturing industries (-1.7%), StatsCan reported.
