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06/27/2012 - 8:30am
New orders for manufactured durable goods in May 2012 increased 1.1 percent, to $217.2 billion. Excluding transportation, new orders rose 0.4 percent. Overall shipments increased 0.7 percent, while capital goods shipments rose 1.3 percent. Unfilled orders were virtually unchanged and inventories increased 0.5 percent in May.