Posted on 01/06/2004 8:10:29 AM PST by Starwind
U.S. Nov factory orders fell 1.4 pct
Tuesday January 6, 10:01 am ET
WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Department
seasonally adjusted data on U.S. factory orders, shipments and
unfilled orders.
ORDERS-PCT CHANGES: Nov Oct Sept
New Orders -1.4 2.4 1.4
Ex-Transportation -1.5 1.6 1.6
Ex-Defense -1.3 1.8 2.3
Manufacturing with
unfilled orders -3.3 5.5 1.0
Durables -2.5 3.9 2.2
Primary Metals -2.5 9.8 -1.0
General Machinery 2.1 1.4 1.5
Computers/Electronics -10.7 2.5 7.2
Electrical Equipment
Appliances -2.4 0.8 2.0
Transport Equipment -1.3 6.4 0.2
NonDefense aircraft -13.9 20.6 -5.1
Defense aircraft -9.1 7.2 3.7
Ships/boats 126.5 -2.4 -61.8
NonDurables -0.2 0.6 0.5
Computers and related
products -0.3 -0.8 -0.2
Motor vehicles/parts -1.3 -0.5 8.2
NonDefense Cap -5.7 2.4 5.2
NonDefense Cap
ex aircraft -5.1 1.4 6.0
Defense Cap -4.6 23.2 -25.4
Durables NonDefense -2.2 2.8 4.0
Unfilled-Durables 0.7 1.7 0.4
SHIPMENTS-PCT CHANGES: Nov Oct Sept
Total unch 0.7 1.8
Durables 0.2 0.7 2.9
Semiconductor shipments 0.7 11.7 -11.7
INVENTORIES-PCT CHANGES: Nov Oct Sept
Total -0.2 0.1 -0.3
Computers and related
products -1.9 -1.6 -0.4
Motor vehicles and parts 0.5 0.1 -1.8
ORDERS-BLNS OF DLRS: Nov Oct Sept
New Orders 336.909 341.856 333.957
Ex-Transportation 283.001 287.232 282.623
Ex-Defense 326.377 330.563 324.874
Manufacturing with
unfilled orders 127.579 131.920 125.027
Durables 181.168 185.771 178.738
Primary Metals 11.649 11.948 10.885
General Machinery 22.158 21.705 21.411
Computers/Electronics 30.082 33.685 32.878
Electrical Equipment
Appliances 8.454 8.665 8.598
Transport Equipment 53.908 54.624 51.334
NonDefense aircraft 4.841 5.625 4.663
Defense aircraft 3.575 3.931 3.668
Ships/boats 3.384 1.494 1.530
NonDurables 155.741 156.085 155.219
Computers and related
products 8.188 8.209 8.279
Motor vehicles/parts 37.823 38.336 38.539
NonDefense Cap 58.164 61.672 60.225
NonDefense Cap
ex aircraft 55.975 59.002 58.188
Defense Cap 8.904 9.335 7.578
Durables NonDefense 170.636 174.478 169.655
Unfilled-Durables 503.633 500.307 492.006
SHIPMENTS-BLNS DLRS: Nov Oct Sept
Total 339.899 339.825 337.598
Durables 184.158 183.740 182.379
Semiconductor shipments 6.316 6.270 5.611
INVENTORIES-BLNS DLRS: Nov Oct Sept
Total 437.904 438.680 438.294
Computers and related
products 5.954 6.068 6.166
Motor vehicles and parts 20.121 20.024 20.002
INVENTORIES/SHIPMENTS RATIO: Nov Oct
. 1.29 1.29
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PERCENT CHANGES:
Nov Oct Sept
Factory Orders N/A 2.2 1.4
Durable Goods -3.1 4.0 2.2
N/A-not available
FORECAST:
Reuters survey of economists forecast:
U.S. Nov factory orders -1.5 pct
HISTORICAL COMPARISONS/NOTES:
U.S. Nov factory orders decline largest since April'03 (-2.6
pct)
The inventories/shipments ratio is a measure of the number
of months it takes to deplete inventories at the current pace of
shipments.
General machinery includes groups such as industrial, farm,
construction, mining and metalworking.
Initial orders for November durable goods were issued on
Dec. 24.
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