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Order entries in the industry grew by 6.5 percent until July
27/09/2004
on September 27, 2004
The index of entries of orders in the industry grew 6.5 percent during the first seven months of the year over the same period of 2003, driven primarily by equipment.
According to the economic destination of the goods, the interannual evolution of entries of orders in the industry was of 3.5 percent for consumer goods, of 11 per cent for equipment, 5.7 percent for intermediate goods and 9.5 per cent for energy.
In the specific case of the month of July, incoming industrial orders increased by 5.6 percent over the same month of the previous year. In response to the economic use of the property, rates of variation on July 2003 were - 0.3% in the case of consumer goods, from 11.5 per cent in the capital equipment, from 3.8 per cent in the intermissions and 25.7 per cent in the energy.
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