Durable Goods (Aug. 16)

Although durable goods orders were unchanged in August, the details of the report were weak. It now appears that equipment investment contracted in the third quarter, which means the risks to our estimate that third-quarter GDP growth was 2.5% are now skewed to the downside. 

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