United States Durable Goods Orders 1992-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose 2.6 percent month-over-month in March 2018, following an upwardly revised 3.5 percent surge in February and easily beating market expectations of a 0.5 percent gain. This increase was mainly driven by higher demand for transportation equipment (7.6 percent). Durable Goods Orders in the United States averaged 0.34 percent from 1992 until 2018, 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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US Durable Goods Orders Rise More than Expected in March

New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose 2.6 percent month-over-month in March 2018, following an upwardly revised 3.5 percent surge in February and easily beating market expectations of a 0.5 percent gain. This increase was mainly driven by higher demand for transportation equipment. However, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business spending plans, edged down 0.1 percent, the third decline in four months.

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased $6.4 billion to $254.9 billion. Excluding transportation, new orders were virtually unchanged. Excluding defense, new orders increased 2.8 percent. Transportation equipment, also up four of the last five months, drove the increase, $6.4 billion or 7.6 percent to $91.4 billion.

Shipments of manufactured durable goods in March, up ten of the last eleven months, increased $0.7 billion or 0.3 percent to $250.0 billion. This followed a 0.7 percent February increase. Transportation equipment, up four of the last five months, drove the increase, $1.5 billion or 1.8 percent to $83.4 billion.

Unfilled orders for manufactured durable goods in March, up six of the last seven months, increased $9.3 billion or 0.8 percent to $1,154.0 billion. This followed a 0.3 percent February increase. Transportation equipment, up three of the last four months, led the increase, $8.0 billion or 1.0 percent to $782.8 billion.

Inventories of manufactured durable goods in March, up twenty of the last twenty-one months, increased $0.3 billion or 0.1 percent to $411.0 billion. This followed a 0.4 percent February increase. Both Fabricated metal products and Machinery led the increase. Fabricated metal products, up fifteen consecutive months, increased $0.3 billion or 0.6 percent to $52.0 billion. Machinery, up four of the last five months, increased $0.3 billion or 0.4 percent to $70.8 billion.

Nondefense new orders for capital goods in March increased $4.7 billion or 6.0 percent to $83.1 billion. Shipments increased $1.7 billion or 2.2 percent to $76.9 billion. Unfilled orders increased $6.3 billion or 0.9 percent to $716.1 billion. Inventories decreased $0.5 billion or 0.3 percent to $182.5 billion. Defense new orders for capital goods in March increased $0.1 billion or 0.9 percent to $10.6 billion. Shipments decreased $0.3 billion or 2.7 percent to $10.6 billion. Unfilled orders increased less than $0.1 billion or virtually unchanged to $140.7 billion. Inventories also increased less than $0.1 billion or 0.2 percent to $23.3 billion.

US Census Bureau | Joana Ferreira | joana.ferreira@tradingeconomics.com
4/26/2018 1:11:28 PM

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-02-27	01:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	-3.7%	2.6%	-2%	-1.9%
2018-03-23	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	3.1%	-3.5%	1.5%	1%
2018-04-26	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	2.6%	3.5%	1.6%	0.6%
2018-05-25	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM		2.6%	-1.4%	-0.7%
2018-06-27	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM				0.88%
2018-07-26	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM				0.30%

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	57.30	59.30	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	56.50	55.60	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	54.60	54.00	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	56.80	58.80	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	54.90	54.20	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	3.50	3.70	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.70	0.70	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.80	2.50	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	77.99	77.56	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	2.60	3.50	22.10	-17.90	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	2.80	3.00	24.80	-18.60	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.00	0.90	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.30	0.20	4.60	-7.30	percent	[+]
New Orders	507690.00	497984.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	1.60	1.60	10.20	-9.40	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.00	0.60	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	33.07	15.56	132.20	-206.10	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.30	0.90	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	23106.00	23157.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	1767.00	1738.20	1767.00	14.40	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	104.80	104.70	107.70	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	64.30	54.00	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	34.40	23.20	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	20.10	15.80	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	16.00	-3.00	30.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.34	0.32	2.76	-5.16		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	21.80	22.80	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	57.60	57.40	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	3.08	3.19	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	522.69	431.32	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.15	17.48	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-1.40	-2.20	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	106.00	89.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-3790.00	-2174.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	122.63	122.34	184.16	70.21	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	4.85	-1.85	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	844.00	844.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.85	5.70	5.85	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	2.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	6.00	8.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7261.00	6446.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	10.60	10.60	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Durable Goods Orders

Durable Goods Orders refer to new orders placed with manufacturers for delivery of hard goods which meant to last at least three years. 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 2018.