US Durable Goods Orders Disappoint in World Economy News 14/03/2026 New orders for US-manufactured durable goods were flat month-over-month in January 2026, following a downwardly revised 0.9% decrease in December and compared to market forecasts of a 1.2% rise. Higher orders for primary metals (0.8%); computers and electronic products (0.8%) and fabricated metals products (0.6%) were offset by declines for capital goods (-1.1%); transportation equipment (-0.9%) and electrical equipment, appliances, and components (-0.6%). Excluding transportation, new orders went up by 0.4%, after an upwardly revised 1.3% increase in December; while excluding defense, they increased by 0.5%, after a revised 1.9% decline previously. Meanwhile, orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, were flat, following an upwardly revised 0.8% increase in the month before. Source: Trading Economics 2026-03-14 hellenicshippingnews... window.___gcfg = {lang: 'en-US'}; (function(w, d, s) { function go(){ var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], load = function(url, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.src = url; js.id = id; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }; load('//connect.facebook.net/en/all.js#xfbml=1', 'fbjssdk'); load('https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', 'gplus1js'); load('//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js', 'tweetjs'); } if (w.addEventListener) { w.addEventListener("load", go, false); } else if (w.attachEvent) { w.attachEvent("onload",go); } }(window, document, 'script')); tweet Share