capacity utilization rate in a sentence

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1. While the capacity utilization rate was up, the 0 . 1 percentage point increase was much smaller than the gains in previous months.
2. All else constant, the lower capacity utilization falls ( relative to the trend capacity utilization rate ), the better the bond market likes it.
3. "You have to see more consumer spending before capacity utilization rates hit optimum levels, " said Michael Hartnett, an economist at Merrill Lynch Japan.
4. Also this week, the U . S . government will release June's industrial production and capacity utilization rates, housing starts and May's international trade deficit.
5. The market has strengthened, and improved demand for paper and board will keep capacity utilization rates at the mills high in the next few months,
6. Capacity utilization rates have declined ( and ) . . . fewer purchasing managers are reporting increases in what they pay for materials used in production.
7. The company also said its capacity utilization rate improved to 67 percent in the first quarter, from 61 percent in the October-December period . _ _ _ __
8. There remains a glut of capital equipment, and the capacity utilization rate, representing how much of the nation's potential output is being used, recently stood around 75 percent.
9. Among them, he said, have been capacity utilization rates, low unemployment rates, rising commodity prices, purchasing managers'reports and expectations for higher prices among both business people and consumers.
10. As a result, the capacity utilization rate fell slightly in September, to 83.3 percent from 83.4 percent, well below the level where inflationary bottlenecks start pushing prices up.