Not terrible news from today's report on durables. But nothing especially good either. New orders for durable goods fell 1.6% in February. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com had expected a 0.9% decline. The big damage was done by a 4.8% drop in transportation equipment orders. Durables excluding transportation--the durables figure that Wall Street watches--new orders for […]


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