United States Durable Goods Orders

New orders for US manufactured durable goods slumped 4.4 percent from a month earlier in October 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.1 percent decline in September and worse than market expectations of a 2.5 percent drop. It was the largest fall in durable goods orders since July 2017 as demand for transportation equipment dropped. Durable Goods Orders in the United States averaged 0.33 percent from 1992 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 23.50 percent in July of 2014 and a record low of -19 percent in August of 2014.

Durable Goods Orders in the United States is expected to be 2.50 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Durable Goods Orders in the United States to stand at 1.50 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Durable Goods Orders is projected to trend around 2.40 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-09-27	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	4.5%	-1.2%	2%	1.2%
2018-10-25	12:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	0.8%	4.6%	-1%	-1.8%
2018-11-21	01:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM	-4.4%	-0.1%	-2.5%	-1.2%
2018-12-21	01:30 PM	Durable Goods Orders MoM		-4.4%		0.8%

US Durable Goods Orders Post Biggest Fall in Over a Year

New orders for US manufactured durable goods slumped 4.4 percent from a month earlier in October 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.1 percent decline in September and worse than market expectations of a 2.5 percent drop. It was the largest fall in durable goods orders since July 2017.

Demand for transport equipment slumped 12.2 percent in October (vs 0.9 percent in September), led by nondefense aircraft and parts (-21.4 percent vs -19.3 percent) and defense aircraft and parts (-59.3 percent vs 117.1 percent) while orders for motor vehicles and parts rose (0.2 percent vs 0.9 percent). Demand also declined for primary metals (-2.3 percent vs -1.2 percent) and machinery (-0.5 percent vs 0.1 percent). Meanwhile, increases were recorded in orders for electrical equipment, appliances, and components (2.9 percent vs -0.8 percent), computers and electronic products (1.6 percent vs 0.5 percent), and fabricated metal products (1 percent vs -2.4 percent).

Excluding transportation, new orders edged up 0.1 percent (vs -0.6 percent in September). Excluding defense, new orders decreased 1.2 percent (vs -1.4 percent in September).

Shipments of manufactured durable goods in October, down following two consecutive monthly increases, decreased $1.4 billion or 0.6 percent to $254.5 billion. This followed a 1.0 percent September increase. Transportation equipment, also down following two consecutive monthly increases, drove the decrease, $1.6 billion or 1.8 percent to $87.6 billion.

Unfilled orders for manufactured durable goods in October, down following eight consecutive monthly increases, decreased $2.0 billion or 0.2 percent to $1,183.0 billion. This followed a 0.7 percent September increase. Transportation equipment, down following two consecutive monthly increases, drove the decrease, $2.9 billion or 0.4 percent to $815.1 billion.

Inventories of manufactured durable goods in October, down two of the last three months, decreased $0.1 billion or virtually unchanged to $410.9 billion. This followed a 0.8 percent September increase. Computers and electronic products, down three of the last four months, drove the decrease, $0.4 billion or 1.0 percent to $43.1 billion.

Nondefense new orders for capital goods in October decreased $3.3 billion or 4.2 percent to $75.3 billion. Shipments decreased $1.9 billion or 2.4 percent to $77.4 billion. Unfilled orders decreased $2.1 billion or 0.3 percent to $715.5 billion. Inventories increased less than $0.1 billion or virtually unchanged to $180.1 billion. Defense new orders for capital goods in October decreased $2.3 billion or 16.6 percent to $11.5 billion. Shipments increased $0.3 billion or 2.9 percent to $12.1 billion. Unfilled orders decreased $0.6 billion or 0.4 percent to $153.4 billion. Inventories increased $0.1 billion or 0.3 percent to $22.8 billion.

US Census Bureau | Joana Ferreira | joana.ferreira@tradingeconomics.com
11/21/2018 1:47:02 PM

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United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	57.70	59.80	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	55.70	55.60	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	54.80	53.50	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	60.30	61.60	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	54.90	53.90	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	4.10	5.60	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.10	0.20	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	2.70	3.80	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.40	78.50	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-4.40	-0.10	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-1.20	-1.40	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.10	-0.60	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.40	0.40	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	515334.00	510466.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	0.70	2.60	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.30	0.50	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	76.33	-36.81	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.40	0.90	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22103.00	22245.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2007.53	1965.29	2007.53	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	107.40	107.90	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	69.80	72.50	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	12.90	22.20	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	23.30	21.10	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	15.00	29.00	29.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.17	0.27	2.77	-5.22		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	29.40	28.10	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	58.40	60.40	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.64	2.78	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	443.14	445.58	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.57	17.44	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	4.85	10.27	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	39.00	65.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-1295.00	-1411.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	124.26	123.89	124.26	46.91	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	-1.55	8.79	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	888.00	886.00	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	85.64	84.84	85.64	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	1.00	1.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	8.00	6.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7251.00	7461.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	13.10	15.10	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

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 November of 2018.