U.S. factory orders increased by 0.2% in April and will be incorporated in the final factory orders report.
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Yet the most recent factory orders report showed a 1.4% decline in May, and durable goods orders slipped 1.1%.
On Tuesday, we get the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index, followed on Wednesday by the ADP Employment Report and factory orders.
Tuesday morning the U.S. Census Bureau will report September factory orders, but don't expect it to influence investors that much.
Tuesday brings the Case-Shiller Home Price Index and consumer confidence numbers, followed by the ADP Employment Report and factory orders on Wednesday.
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If the stock market survives all of these reports, jobless claims come out Thursday, and the monthly jobs report, Factory Orders, and ISM Non-Manufacturing Index round out the week on Friday.
Samsung also builds flash memory chips for Apple at the factory, according to the report.
Also convincing investors that the ECB wants to get back into its nascent monetary tightening process was a report showing German factory orders jumped by 2.8% in April.
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The August ADP Employment Report, August Chicago PMI report, and July factory orders will be released on Wednesday.
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The combination of tepid earnings reports received last week and once again mixed economic data in the form of the October Employment Report and weaker than expected factory orders for October resulted in mixed returns for the stock market last week.
Thursday brings jobless claims and factory orders, followed Friday by the monthly jobs report.
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Finally, in addition to the jobs report Friday, we also have the factory orders and the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index.
There will be an aggressive narrowing of the competitive advantage China now wields in labour costs, the report predicts, as wages for Chinese factory workers rise by between 15pc and 20pc a year.
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Factory output slipped in March, according to a Federal Reserve report last week.
By 11 am, these Polly-Anna expectations had already been falsified, as a new Commerce Department report confirmed a sharp drop in June 2011 US factory orders, and stock market indices and bond yields plunged again.
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Odours from a former Cambridgeshire chemical factory undergoing decontamination are unlikely to be a threat to people, a report has said.
When demand for the plant's batteries didn't meet expectations, the company filled orders with cells made at a factory in South Korea, leaving the Michigan plant largely idle, according to the report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General, Gregory Friedman.
It appears that Apple is about to expand its manufacturing operations to Brazil, where a new Foxconn factory is already in place and ready to churn out iPads, according to a report from national media outlet UOL. Aolizio Mercadante, the country's minister of science and technology, confirmed the news this week during a hearing held by the Commission of Economic Affairs.
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It was also reported this week that Factory Orders rose 1.8% in November, which no doubt contributed to the report that the ISM Mfg Index rose again in December, to 53.9, its highest level in six months.
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