United States Durable Goods Orders 1992-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

New orders for US manufactured durable goods fell 0.7 percent month-over-month in April 2017, following an upwardly revised 2.3 percent jump in March, better than expectations of a 1.2 percent drop. It was the first decline this year, as orders for machinery fell 0.8 percent and those for civilian aircraft shrank 9.2 percent. Meanwhile, orders for defense aircraft jumped 7.1 percent and those for motor vehicles and parts went up 0.3 percent, the first rise in three months. Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, were unchanged for the second straight month. Durable Goods Orders in the United States averaged 0.32 percent from 1992 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 22.10 percent in July of 2014 and a record low of -17.90 percent in August of 2014.

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Calendar	GMT	Reference	Actual	Previous	Consensus	Forecast
2017-03-24	12:30 PM	Feb	1.7%	2.3%	1.2%	0.9%
2017-04-27	12:30 PM	Mar	0.7%	2.3%	1.2%	0.9%
2017-05-26	12:30 PM	Apr	-0.7%	2.3%	-1.2%	-0.7%
2017-06-26	12:30 PM	May				0.66%
2017-07-27	12:30 PM	Jun				0.4%
2017-08-25	12:30 PM	Jul				0.09%

US Durable Goods Orders Fall Less Than Expected

New orders for US manufactured durable goods fell 0.7 percent month-over-month in April 2017, following an upwardly revised 2.3 percent jump in March, better than expectations of a 1.2 percent drop. It was the first decline this year, as orders for machinery fell 0.8 percent and those for civilian aircraft shrank 9.2 percent. Meanwhile, orders for defense aircraft jumped 7.1 percent and those for motor vehicles and parts went up 0.3 percent, the first rise in three months.

Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 0.4 percent. Excluding defense, new orders decreased 0.8 percent. Transportation equipment, down following two consecutive monthly increases, led the decrease, $1.0 billion or 1.2 percent to $78.5 billion.

Shipments of manufactured durable goods in April, down three of the last four months, decreased $0.7 billion or 0.3 percent to $233.0 billion. This followed a 0.1 percent March decrease. Transportation equipment, down six of the last seven months, led the decrease, $0.4 billion or 0.5 percent to $77.2 billion.

Unfilled orders for manufactured durable goods in April, up two consecutive months, increased $2.4 billion or 0.2 percent to $1,122.9 billion. This followed a 0.3 percent March increase. Transportation equipment, also up two consecutive months, led the increase, $1.3 billion or 0.2 percent to $766.6 billion.

Inventories of manufactured durable goods in April, up nine of the last ten months, increased $0.6 billion or 0.1 percent to $394.2 billion. This followed a 0.2 percent March increase. Fabricated metal products, up three of the last four months, led the increase, $0.3 billion or 0.6 percent to $48.4 billion.

Nondefense new orders for capital goods in April decreased $1.4 billion or 1.9 percent to $70.4 billion. Shipments decreased $0.4 billion or 0.5 percent to $69.7 billion. Unfilled orders increased $0.7 billion or 0.1 percent to $697.3 billion. Inventories decreased $1.2 billion or 0.7 percent to $176.7 billion. Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, were unchanged for the second straight month.

Defense new orders for capital goods in April increased $0.4 billion or 4.2 percent to $10.2 billion. Shipments increased $0.2 billion or 1.7 percent to $10.2 billion. Unfilled orders decreased less than $0.1 billion or virtually unchanged to $141.7 billion. Inventories increased $0.7 billion or 3.0 percent to $22.3 billion.

US Census Bureau | Joana Ferreira | joana.ferreira@tradingeconomics.com
5/26/2017 12:45:13 PM

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US Durable Goods Orders Rise Less Than Estimated
New orders for US manufactured durable goods went up 0.7 percent month-over-month in March of 2017, following an upwardly revised 2.3 percent jump in February and below expectations of a 1.2 percent rise.
Published on 2017-04-27

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Published on 2017-03-24

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Published on 2017-02-27

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United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	54.80	57.20	77.50	29.40		[+]
Services PMI	54.00	53.10	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	57.50	55.20	62.00	37.60	percent	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.50	52.80	57.90	50.70		[+]
Composite Pmi	53.90	53.20	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	2.20	1.50	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	1.00	0.40	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.70	0.70	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	76.70	76.10	89.40	66.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-0.70	2.30	22.10	-17.90	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-0.80	1.10	24.80	-18.60	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	-0.40	0.80	6.00	-11.10	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.00	0.30	4.60	-7.30	percent	[+]
New Orders	478185.00	476493.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	0.50	0.80	10.20	-9.40	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.20	0.20	1.40	-2.10	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	4.30	49.60	117.20	-206.10	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	-0.30	0.10	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	23591.00	24114.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	1571.20	1611.40	1703.60	14.40	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	104.50	104.70	107.70	80.10	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	-1.00	5.20	38.99	-34.30	Index Points	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	38.80	22.00	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	1.00	20.00	26.00	-43.00	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	55.80	56.50	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	16.80	16.90	46.60	-59.50	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.49	0.07	2.73	-5.10		[+]
Chicago Pmi	58.30	57.70	78.80	21.40	Index Points	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	16.88	16.62	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Car Production	3.54	3.13	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	569.19	502.25	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-4.43	-1.75	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	75.00	68.00	147.00	-287.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-787.00	-413.00	11456.00	-8419.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	181.22	182.29	182.29	70.21	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	51.67	49.03	59.12	48.35		[+]
Steel Production	6717.00	7003.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	7.30	3.70	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]
Corruption Index	74.00	76.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	18.00	16.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.70	5.61	5.79	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	3.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	8.00	7.00	8.00	4.00		[+]

United States Durable Goods Orders Notes

Durable Goods Orders refer to new orders placed with manufacturers for delivery of hard goods in the future. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Durable Goods Orders - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Durable Goods Orders - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on May of 2017.