Although durable goods orders rose by a decent 2.6% m/m in March, the details of the survey suggest that the growth rate of business investment in equipment slowed down to roughly 2.0% annualised in the first quarter. That supports our view that, in part due to the unseasonably bad weather, GDP growth decelerated to 1.7% annualised.
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