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US durable goods orders fell 0.1% in July, less than the 0.3% decline expected by the consensus and following the 0.8% rise in June (revised down from +0 , 9% initially reported).
Excluding the transport component, the figure rose by 0.7%, over the estimated + 0.5%, strengthening with respect to the + 0.5% of the previous month.
However, orders for ex-defense capital goods remained unchanged, doing worse than the + 0.5% forecast by the consensus, and slowing down compared to + 1% in June (revised upwards from the previous increase of 0.7%).