Amid chaotic swings MoM driven by the variability of Boeing plane orders, analysts expected preliminary July data to show a 3.8% MoM decline (following June's big plunge, following May's big surge). The good news is that the actualk print was better than expected (-2.
8% MoM) but still in the red for headline orders. This dragged down the YoY headline growth to 3.5% as the front-running of tariffs fades and earlier this month, Boeing Co. reported a fewer orders in July than in June.
Source: Bloomberg
Under the hood, ex-Transports, durable goods orders rose over 1.0% MoM (the fourth straight month of gains), lifting core orders 3.8% YoY - its strrongest growth since Nov 2022...
Source: Bloomberg
Once again, non-defense aircraft orders plunged (while defense aircraft orders rose)...
Source: Bloomberg
Capital Goods Orders, non-defense ex-aircraft rose 1.1% MoM (better than expected).
Non-defense capital goods shipments including aircraft, which feed directly into the equipment investment portion of the gross domestic product report, rose 0.7% after an upwardly revised gain a month earlier. Rather than orders, which can be canceled, the government uses data on shipments as an input to GDP.
The import/export tariffs - and the frontrunning of such - has clearly sparked chaos in the data.
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