New orders for manufactured durable goods in September decreased $2.9 billion or 1.2
percent to $231.1 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced this week.  The decrease, down two consecutive months, followed a 3.0 percent August decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 2.0 percent.

Transportation equipment, also down two consecutive months, led the decrease, $2.2 billion or 2.9 percent to $75.5 billion.

The revised seasonally adjusted August figure for manufacturing new orders was $471.3 billion, revised from $473.0 billion.

To read the full release, go to https://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf