{"id":114850,"date":"2025-05-27T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=114850"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:07:47","slug":"us-durable-goods-orders-decline-less-than-expected-in-april-dollar-holds-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/us-durable-goods-orders-decline-less-than-expected-in-april-dollar-holds-firm\/05\/27\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"US Durable Goods Orders Decline Less Than Expected in April, Dollar Holds Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durable Goods Orders in the United States fell by 6.3% in April, or $19.9 billion, to $296.3 billion, according to data released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau. While this marks the largest monthly decline since April 2020, it was a smaller drop than the 7.9% contraction forecast by economists. The report also revised March\u2019s gain down to 7.6% from the previously reported 9.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main drag on April\u2019s figures came from transportation equipment, which tumbled 17.1%, or $20.3 billion, to $98.8 billion, snapping a four-month streak of gains. Stripping out transportation, new orders for durable goods actually rose 0.2%, indicating some underlying resilience in other sectors. However, when excluding defense, new orders declined 7.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report suggests that while headline orders were hit by a pullback in large-ticket items such as aircraft, other areas of manufacturing remained relatively stable. Markets responded with a steady US Dollar Index (DXY), which held above the 99.00 mark in positive territory, as traders weighed the data\u2019s impact on the Federal Reserve\u2019s outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durable Goods Orders in the United States fell by 6.3% in April, or $19.9 billion, to $296.3 billion, according to data released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau. While this marks the largest monthly decline since April 2020, it was a smaller drop than the 7.9% contraction forecast by economists. The report also revised March\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":70226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6858],"class_list":["post-114850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-market-updates","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114851,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114850\/revisions\/114851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}