BCREA ECONOMICS NOW: Canadian Manufacturing Sales
BCREA ECONOMICS NOW
Canadian Manufacturing Sales - November 14, 2014
Canadian manufacturing sales rebounded from a poor showing in August, rising 2.1 per cent in September to $53 billion. The increase in sales was the eighth gain in the past nine months and was primarily the result of higher sales of transportation equipment.
In BC, where manufacturing employs over 160,000 people, manufacturing sales were up 1.9 cent on a monthly basis, and were 9 per cent higher year-over-year. Through the first nine months of the year, manufacturing sales are close to 7 per cent higher than last year.
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Cameron Muir Brendon Ogmundson
Chief Economist Economist
Direct: 604.742.2780 Direct: 604.742.2796
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Email: cmuir@bcrea.bc.ca Email: bogmundson@bcrea.bc.ca
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