Advance Report on Durable Goods

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09/27/2012 - 8:30am

New orders for manufactured durable goods in August 2012 decreased 13.2 percent to $198.5 billion. Excluding transportation, new orders fell 1.6 percent. Overall shipments fell 3.0 percent. Capital goods shipments declined 1.7 percent. Unfilled orders fell 1.7 percent. And inventories grew 0.6 percent in August.