{"id":1539618,"date":"2025-06-03T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1539618"},"modified":"2025-06-03T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:09:02","slug":"us-factory-orders-plunged-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-factory-orders-plunged-in-april\/1539618\/","title":{"rendered":"US Factory Orders Plunged In April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">US Factory Orders Plunged In April<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After surging in March &#8211; tariff-frontrunning dominated with the largest MoM rise since July 2020 &#8211; US Factory Orders tumbled 3.7% in April (worse than the 3.2% MoM decline expected). Also, the 4.3% rise in March was revised down to a 3.4% MoM rise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm53B4.jpg?itok=bXkuffWY\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><strong>The MoM drop was the biggest since Jan 2024<\/strong> as tariff-frontrunning faded, dragging the headline orders down to just +0.9% YoY.<\/p>\n<p>Core Factory Orders (excluding the more volatile Transportation sector) fell for the second straight month, down 0.5% MoM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmFCE6_0.jpg?itok=ryyXhqQt\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>That weakness dragged <strong>core factory orders down 0.08% YoY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Is the &#8216;hard&#8217; data and &#8216;soft&#8217; data about to start converging?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm5D6D_0.jpg?itok=leRTk6uY\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or is this &#8216;transitory&#8217;?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 06\/03\/2025 &#8211; 10:09<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/us-factory-orders-plunged-april\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/economics\/us-factory-orders-plunged-april<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Factory Orders Plunged In April After surging in March &#8211; tariff-frontrunning dominated with the largest MoM rise since July 2020 &#8211; US Factory Orders&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1539619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}