TABLE-Dallas Fed Texas Feb manufacturing activity -0.1

Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:42am EST

 WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Details of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas monthly manufacturing index
released on Monday.
 Following are details from the survey. Only some items are
seasonally adjusted:
                                          Expected 6
                               Feb    Jan  months
                             Index  Index  Index
General Business Activity        -0.1    8.3   21.1
Production                        2.3    7.4   40.0
Capacity utilization              0.0    6.3   40.3
Volume of new orders             -6.0   26.8   48.9
Growth rate of orders            -3.3   11.4   38.7
Unfilled orders                  -2.4    2.3   16.6
Volume of shipments              -1.1   11.4   41.9
Delivery time                     3.3   -2.2    2.2
Materials inventories            -9.9  -10.0    5.6
Finished goods inventories       -6.6  -18.9   -1.1
Prices paid for raw materials    40.9   32.6   47.8
Prices received
for finished goods               -0.8    0.1   16.6
Wages and benefits                6.6    7.8   27.2
Number of employees              -5.2   -4.5   22.5
Average employee workweek        -5.5    1.1   28.8
Capital expenditures             -8.8   -7.9    6.8
                                          Expected 6
                               Feb    Jan  months
                             Index  Index  Index
How has the                      -1.3   11.5   21.7
outlook for your
company changed?
 NOTES:
 The index measures Texas' factory activity. Readings above
zero indicate expansion and negative levels contraction.

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