Monday, June 4, 2007

April factory orders rise 0.3 percent

(Reuters) - Analysts polled by Reuters were expecting factory orders to rise 0.7 percent. March orders were revised up to show a 4.1 percent gain from the previously reported 3.1 percent.




"It's a smaller-than-expected increase, but it doesn't change the improvement in the manufacturing picture this spring," said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services in Pittsburgh.


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