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Article: Eurozone industrial new orders continues to drop in February
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- April 24, 2007
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Eurozone industrial new orders continues to drop in February
BRUSSELS, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Eurozone industrial new orders
dropped for the second consecutive month in February, down by 0.7
percent from January, the European Union's statistics bureau Eurostat
said on Tuesday.
Industrial new orders in the euro zone fell slightly by 0.1
percent in January after the orders were on increase for four months
before this year.
On monthly basis, new orders for electrical and electronic
equipment registered the largest decrease among different sectors,
down by 3.6 percent in February. Transport equipment fell by 1.4
percent, while basic metals and fabricated metal products declined by
0.1 percent. ...