{"id":20432,"date":"2011-03-31T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=20432"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:27:36","slug":"factory-orders-fall-in-february-surprising-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/03\/31\/factory-orders-fall-in-february-surprising-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"Factory Orders Fall in February, Surprising Economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Factory orders declined by 0.1% in February, surprising economists, who  were looking for a 0.5% increase. Shipments of manufactured goods rose  by 0.3%, the Commerce Department reported. Most of the decline was  fueled by government spending cuts for military equipment, but  businesses also cutback purchases of tech hardware, according to the  report. Business capital spending fell for the second month in a row,  but overall orders are up 26.4% from their low in March 2009, according  to the AP. The major indexes reflected little reaction to the news. The  Dow Jones Industrial Average leads, up 0.15%. The Nasdaq composite index  and the S&amp;P 500 are both fractionally negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factory orders declined by 0.1% in February, surprising economists, who were looking for a 0.5% increase. Shipments of manufactured goods rose by 0.3%, the Commerce Department reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}