{"id":1666111,"date":"2026-02-23T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1666111"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:06:49","slug":"core-us-factory-orders-better-than-expected-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/core-us-factory-orders-better-than-expected-in-december\/1666111\/","title":{"rendered":"Core US Factory Orders Better Than Expected In December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Core US Factory Orders Better Than Expected In December<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>While <strong>sentiment is sagging to multi-year lows<\/strong>, &#8216;hard&#8217; data is helping support growth forecasts (GDPNOW) and holding stocks at record highs.<\/p>\n<p>This morning we get a fresh glimpse at America&#8217;s manufacturing segment &#8211;<strong> hard data<\/strong> &#8211; with Orders data (which is expected to drop MoM in December).<\/p>\n<p>After surging higher in November (+2.7% MoM), analysts expected US Factory Orders to drop 0.6% MoM in December but the actual print disappointed, dropping 0.7% MoM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm986C.jpg?itok=91Ew-IiZ\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Core Factory Orders rose 0.4% MoM &#8211; better than expected<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm1828.jpg?itok=8yFIUKUj\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>The final December prints for Durable Goods Orders fell 1.4% as expected (and in line with the preliminary data).<\/p>\n<p>New orders non-defense, ex-air &#8211; a proxy for spending &#8211; rose 0.8% MoM (better than expected).<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is this data is overall supportive for GDP guesstimates (and earnings).<\/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\">Mon, 02\/23\/2026 &#8211; 10:06<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/core-us-factory-orders-better-expected-december\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/core-us-factory-orders-better-expected-december<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core US Factory Orders Better Than Expected In December While sentiment is sagging to multi-year lows, &#8216;hard&#8217; data is helping support growth forecasts (GDPNOW) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1666112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6ZqL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/bfm986C-VGAISB.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666111","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=1666111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}