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To: JakeStraw who wrote (384786)4/3/2003 10:58:32 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Feb. factory orders dropped 1.5%
usatoday.com

The Commerce Department's report released Wednesday offered more evidence that the nation's battered manufacturing sector, which has been shedding hundreds of thousands of workers and operating below capacity, is bearing the brunt of the economy's problems.

The decline in February came after factory orders rose a solid 1.7% in January, a brief bright spot.