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Factory Order Details Disappoint Again
mishtalk.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / March 6, 2017
Factory orders beat the Econoday Consensus estimate of 1.1% by 0.1 percentage points but the good news stops there. Aircraft orders which have a very long lead time skewed the results higher.
Strength in aircraft orders is masking what is not a favorable factory orders report where the January headline rose a nearly as-expected 1.2 percent. When excluding transportation equipment, orders rose only 0.3 percent. And when looking at core capital goods (nondefense ex-aircraft) the results turn decidedly weak, at a 0.1 percent decline for orders which points to softness ahead for related shipments. And shipments were already in contraction in January, falling 0.4 percent.
There is no revision to December’s headline though there is one for unfilled orders which are pushed down another tenth to a very steep minus 0.8 percent. In January, unfilled orders fell 0.4 percent for the 7th decline in 8 months in the worst streak of the economic cycle. This is not a good sign for factory employment.
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2017/03/06/factory-order-details-disappoint-again/
