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February 5, 2012 1:05 AM EST
Once again, it was earnings versus the economy. This seems to be the favored feud these days. Durable Goods for June, a piece of lagging economic data, unexpectedly fell by 1.0%. Expectations were for a gain of 1.0%, so a healthy miss. Unfortunately, this can be a very volatile number. Civilian aircraft orders can and did skew the number, falling 25.6% in June. Transports, in total, were down 2.4%. In a related piece of data, Dow component Boein... full story >>