Ignore the 4.4% fall in durable goods orders last month, it was mostly due to a drop back in defence orders. The genuine bad news here is the fact that underlying capital goods orders and shipments have levelled off over the past three months. That suggests the sudden weakness in business equipment investment in the third quarter was not a one-off.
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