États-Unis Commandes De Biens Durables

New orders for manufactured durable goods in the US surged by 9.9% from the previous month in July of 2024, making up for the downwardly revised 6.9% decline in the earlier period, the most since May 2020 and firmly above market expectations of a 5% expansion. The result challenged the growing pessimism over manufacturing activity in the United States, suggesting the current slowdown may be temporary. Orders were mainly carried by a surge in transportation equipment (+4.8% to $102.2 billion), driving total orders when excluding transportation goods to log a slight decline (-0.2% to $187.4 billion). In the meantime, orders also rose for fabricated metal products (0.2% to $36.3 billion) and defense aircraft and parts (12.9% to $5.5 billion). On the other hand, orders fell for computers and electronic products (-0.7% to $24.9 billion) and primary metals (-0.9% vs $24.5 billion). Excluding defense goods, durable goods orders surged by 10.4%.