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Article: Eurozone industrial new orders down by 0.8 percent in March
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 26, 2009
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Eurozone industrial new orders down by 0.8 percent in March
BRUSSELS, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The eurozone industrial new orders
dropped by 0.8 percent month on month in March and by 26.9 percent
year on year, the European Union (EU)'s statistics bureau Eurostat
said Tuesday.
In February, the monthly index remained unchanged.
Excluding ships, railway and aerospace equipment, for which
changes tend to be more volatile, industrial new orders fell 0.2
percent over the previous month in the euro area in March and by
26.6 percent over a year ago.
In March, new orders for non-durable consumer goods recorded the
largest monthly drop of ...