New orders for manufactured durable goods in September decreased $3.2 billion, or 1.3 percent, to $241.6 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced this week. This decrease, down two consecutive months, followed an 18.3 percent August decrease.  Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 0.2 percent.  Excluding defense, new orders decreased 1.5 percent.

Transportation equipment, also down two consecutive months, led the decrease, $2.8 billion or 3.7 percent to $73.4 billion.

The revised seasonally adjusted August figure for all manufacturing industries for new orders was $502.2 billion, revised from $502.0 billion.

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