Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Department seasonally adjusted data on U.S. factory orders, shipments and unfilled orders.

ORDERS-PCT CHANGES: Oct Sept Aug

New Orders 0.8 4.5 -5.1

Ex-Transportation 1.3 1.2 0.7

Ex-Defense 0.8 4.1 -4.5

Manufacturing with

unfilled orders 1.3 13.3 -16.4

Durables 0.5 9.1 -13.1

Primary Metals 1.6 3.9 -2.5

General Machinery 4.6 7.8 -6.1

Computers/Electronics 0.5 -0.5 -4.0

Electrical Equipment

Appliances 4.8 -3.8 2.6

Transport Equipment -2.3 29.7 -33.7

NonDefense aircraft -5.6 2642.2 -97.2

Defense aircraft -4.3 31.9 -1.4

Ships/boats 11.2 16.1 -45.0

NonDurables 1.1 0.9 2.2

Computers and related

products -12.2 -0.2 -4.4

Motor vehicles/parts -0.9 -1.7 -11.7

NonDefense Cap 1.8 22.8 -23.9

NonDefense Cap

ex aircraft 2.9 -0.5 0.3

Defense Cap -7.4 37.4 -40.0

Durables Ex-Transport 1.8 1.7 -2.0

Durables NonDefense 0.6 8.5 -12.3

Unfilled-Durables 0.3 0.1 -1.7

SHIPMENTS-PCT CHANGES: Oct Sept Aug

Total 0.4 0.7 -0.2

Durables -0.4 0.5 -2.9

NonDefense Cap

ex aircraft -0.1 -0.3 -1.1

INVENTORIES-PCT CHANGES: Oct Sept Aug

Total 0.1 0.6 0.6

Computers and related

products 1.7 -3.4 -1.5

Motor vehicles and parts 1.5 0.5 0.9

ORDERS-BLNS OF DLRS: Oct Sept Aug

New Orders 477.577 473.786 453.411

Ex-Transportation 410.581 405.220 400.540

Ex-Defense 466.661 462.764 444.507

Manufacturing with

unfilled orders 160.115 157.989 139.495

Durables 217.915 216.865 198.693

Primary Metals 28.421 27.966 26.908

General Machinery 31.299 29.936 27.778

Computers/Electronics 20.416 20.318 20.428

Electrical Equipment

Appliances 9.897 9.445 9.815

Transport Equipment 66.996 68.566 52.871

NonDefense aircraft 13.799 14.616 0.533

Defense aircraft 5.666 5.923 4.490

Ships/boats 1.739 1.564 1.347

NonDurables 259.662 256.921 254.718

Computers and related

products 2.386 2.718 2.724

Motor vehicles/parts 42.359 42.746 43.497

NonDefense Cap 72.192 70.938 57.756

NonDefense Cap

ex aircraft 61.728 60.013 60.305

Defense Cap 7.770 8.390 6.105

Durables Ex-Transport 150.919 148.299 145.822

Durables NonDefense 206.999 205.843 189.789

Unfilled-Durables 982.945 980.124 979.304

SHIPMENTS-BLNS DLRS: Oct Sept Aug

Total 482.329 480.401 477.115

Durables 222.667 223.480 222.397

NonDefense Cap

ex aircraft 62.778 62.850 63.065

INVENTORIES-BLNS DLRS: Oct Sept Aug

Total 615.950 615.453 611.959

Computers and related

products 3.872 3.806 3.939

Motor vehicles and parts 25.676 25.290 25.155

INVENTORIES/SHIPMENTS RATIO: Oct Sept

1.28 1.28

PREVIOUSLY REPORTED PERCENT CHANGES:

Oct Sept Aug

Factory Orders N/A 4.8 -5.1

Durable Goods unch 9.2 -13.1

FORECAST:

Reuters survey of economists forecast:

U.S. Oct factory orders unchanged

HISTORICAL COMPARISONS/NOTES:

N/A - not available

Initial orders for October durable goods were issued on Nov. 27.

The Commerce Department said that semiconductor shipments are included in the computers and electronic products and other applicable aggregate totals. They are no longer listed separately.

The inventories/shipments ratio is a measure of the number of months it takes to deplete inventories at the current pace of shipments.

General machinery includes groups such as industrial, farm, construction, mining and metalworking.

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