{"id":29033,"date":"2012-04-30T06:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29033"},"modified":"2012-04-30T06:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:50:56","slug":"demand-for-u-s-durable-goods-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/30\/demand-for-u-s-durable-goods-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for U.S. Durable Goods Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v6e07baabdcc5697e688df69e40fecd06ac41db26&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v6e07baabdcc5697e688df69e40fecd06ac41db26&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Economic data coming out of the Commerce Department this morning; Orders for U.S. durable goods fell in March by the most in three years. Bookings for goods meant to last at least three years dropped 4.2%, well above economists forecast of a 1.7% decline.This data is due to the troubles in Europe and the slowdown in China as well as the end of the strongest 10-quarter performance in a decade on business investments.This data has not deterred the markets though. Positive corporate earnings lead the way in the beginning of the session today with the Dow up over a 0.5%, the S&#038;P 500 up over 1% and the Nasdaq soaring over 2%.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/30\/1_j0qnv6cq_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/04\/30\/1_j0qnv6cq_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic data coming out of the Commerce Department this morning; Orders for U.S. durable goods fell in March by the most in three years. Bookings for goods meant to last at least three years dropped 4.2%, well above economists forecast of a 1.7% decline.This data is due to the troubles in Europe and the slowdown &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/04\/30\/demand-for-u-s-durable-goods-falls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demand for U.S. Durable Goods Falls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-29033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033","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=29033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}