...were positive factors in December. Consumers' dim outlook for business conditions and weaker expectations for manufacturing orders held back the index.The index is derived from data that for the most part have already been reported individually...

...housing problem (prices, housing starts, home/commercial foreclosures); rising food prices; shortage of manufacturing orders; high unemployment numbers; high gas prices; stale retail sales; unfunded wars/conflicts; an astronomical...

...of 70 factory managers by The Econometric Center at Kennesaw State University. The report showed that while new manufacturing orders and production dropped, finished inventory increased 13.4 percentage points and employment saw a 3.1-point...

Manufacturing orders decline in August WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturers saw demand for big-ticket products drop by a sizable 0.9 percent in August...

...by a 4-to-3 margin on the New York Stock Exchange, where composite volume came to 1.04 billion shares. Manufacturing orders post rise WASHINGTON - New orders to U.S. factories in May took their biggest jump in more than seven years...

WASHINGTON -- Home resales boomed to a record in February, but a slump in demand for aircraft sent manufacturing orders down, according to reports that demonstrate conflicting crosswinds from Asia's financial turmoil. Sales of...

...such as Hohenberg Brothers Co. in Tennessee, it meant a few hundred bales of cotton would be shipped to fill manufacturing orders. But somewhere between the cotton broker's handshake and his company's bank account, millions of dollars...

ATLANTA --- Peach State manufacturers are back in hiring mode, according to the Georgia Purchasing Managers Index released Tuesday.

...as well with the Dow Jones industrial average down 101 points at midday. In advance of Thursday's report on manufacturing orders, many economists had predicted that the March report would show continued weakness at American factories with...

WASHINGTON - Orders for big-ticket manufactured items rose unexpectedly to an all-time high in February, providing some after-the-fact justification for the Federal Reserve's interest-rate increase. Spurred by demand for communications and other electronic equipment, durable goods orders to U.S. factories increased 1.5 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted $178.3 billion, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.