New Orders in Durable Goods, advance report, dropped -4.0% for January 2012. December durable goods new orders jumped by 3.2%, revised. While some will blame a business tax credit expiration, this report is across the board bad news.
New Orders in Durable Goods, advance report, increased +3.0% for December 2011. November durable goods new orders jumped by 4.3% and October was a 0.1% increase. This means for all of Q4, we have an increase in durable goods new orders.
New Orders in Durable Goods decreased -0.7% for October 2011. New Orders has declined the last two months and August was barely breathin'. September durable goods were revised dramatically downward and new orders decreased -1.5%.
New Orders in Durable Goods decreased -0.1% for August 2011. New Orders has declined the last three months out of five. July durable goods new orders were revised from +4.0% to +4.1% increase.
The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for July 2011 was released today. New orders overall increased 2.4%. Removing transportation (which includes aircraft) from the numbers, new orders increased 0.9%, so things aren't as good as they seem. Air-o-plane new orders, not defense, shot up 43.4%.
New Orders in Durable Goods jumped to an astounding 4.0% for July 2011. New Orders has declined the last two months out of four. June durable goods new orders were revised from -2.1% to a -1.3% decrease. But wait.....sorry to pop your balloon....
New orders for manufactured goods in June, up four of the last five months, increased $1.4 billion or 0.4 percent to $349.0 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This followed a 1.1 percent May increase.
Excluding transportation, new orders increased 2.3 percent. Shipments, up following ten consecutive monthly decreases, increased $4.9 billion or 1.4 percent to $358.3 billion. This followed a 0.8 percent May decrease.
Unfilled orders, down nine consecutive months, decreased $6.5 billion or 0.9 percent to $740.2 billion. This was the longest streak of consecutive monthly decreases since November 2001-July 2002. This followed a 0.3 percent May decrease.
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