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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (73390)	6/4/2012 10:33:43 AM
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U.S. factory orders post surprise fall in April 06/04 10:28 AM WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) - New orders for U.S. factory goods fell in April for the third time in four months as demand slipped for everything from cars and machinery to computers, the latest worrisome sign for the economy. The Commerce Department said on Monday orders for manufactured goods dropped 0.6 percent during the month. The government also revised its estimate for new orders in March to show a steeper decline. Economists had forecast orders rising 0.2 percent in April. The report showed broad weakness in a sector that has carried the economic recovery, adding to a growing body of soft economic data in the United States. "Obviously it's a slowdown in the economy," said Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania. The Labor Department on Friday reported that job creation slowed in May for the fourth straight month. Also that day, the Institute for Supply Management said the pace of growth in manufacturing slowed modestly in May, although the ISM's own gauge of new orders rose to its highest in over a year. The Commerce Department report showed new orders for motor vehicles and parts fell 0.5 percent in April. An increase in new orders for civilian aircraft buoyed the overall transportation sector. Outside transportation, orders dropped 1.1 percent, with machinery down 2.9 percent and orders for computers and electronics off by 0.8 percent. The government also revised downward its estimate for new orders of long-lasting manufactured goods in April. U.S. stock prices declined as investors fretted about signs of economic weakness around the globe and Europe's intensifying debt crisis.