Canada Feb manufacturing, note electrical equipment.
Statistics Canada reports manufacturing sales up 0.7% in February at $71.6B
The agency says manufacturing sales were up in 13 of the 21 subsectors it tracks as petroleum and coal sales rose 4.3 per cent to $8.7 billion, helped by higher prices and to a lesser extent, volumes. Sales of electrical equipment, appliance and component products rose 12.6 per cent to a record $1.5 billion in February.