Thursday, October 25, 2012

How Are We Doing? Weekly Jobless Claims Slide, Durable Goods Orders Surge



A gauge of planned U.S. business spending was flat in September, a sign that heightened uncertainty is weighing on factories although new orders for long-lasting manufactured goods increased during the month, Reuters reports.

Other data on Thursday showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, giving a clearer sign that the labor market is healing after wild fluctuations in the data at the beginning of October.

New orders for capital goods outside of defense and excluding aircraft, a proxy for business spending plans, was unchanged last month at $60.3 billion, Commerce Department data showed. (Read More: Companies Are Sitting on More Cash Than Ever Before).  That was short of economists' expectations for a 0.7 percent gain….

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