Article: Michigan Economy Shows Slight Uptick Reports Comerica Bank's Michigan Business Activity Index

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Contact: Dana Johnson, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of Comerica Bank, +1-734-930-2401, or +1-800-895-7708

DETROIT, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Michigan Business Activity Index compiled by Comerica Bank was 102 in December, up 1 point from November. The latest reading is down about 4 percent from a year ago. For the year as a whole, our index has averaged 2.6 percent less than it did in 2005.

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"Mild weather helped activity tick higher in December, but the state economy almost certainly has not bottomed out yet," said Dana Johnson, Chief Economist at Comerica Bank. "Production and ...

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