7 June 2001, 14:09  German manufacturing orders decline slows in April

--German April mfg orders volume falls seas. adj 1.1% vs March
--German April mfg orders volume rises unadj 1.5% on year
--German Apr foreign mfg orders vol falls seas. adj 0.8% vs Mar
--German Apr domestic mfg orders vol falls seas. adj 1.5% vs Mar
--W German April mfg orders volume falls seas. adj 1.6% vs Mar
--E German April mfg orders volume rises seas. adj 4.4% vs Mar
--German Mar/Apr mfg orders vol down seas. adj 3.7% vs Jan/Feb

Frankfurt, June 7 (BridgeNews) - The decline in German manufacturing orders slowed in April to a provisional seasonally-adjusted 1.1% from March in volume terms, according to date released Thursday by the Finance Ministry. The March fall was revised to 3.0% on the month from an originally reported plunge of 4.4%. The renewed downturn in demand, the fourth monthly shrinkage of new orders in a row, was confined to companies in west Germany. East German orders rose.
* * * Compared to April 2000, however, all-German manufacturing orders rose an unadjusted 1.5%, with domestic orders up 0.7% and foreign orders rising 2.6%, the ministry said.
But the April monthly comparison showed a seasonally-adjusted fall of 1.5% in domestic orders--against a fall of 1.1% in March--with foreign orders down 0.8%--compared to a 5.3% decline in March.
Looking at the two-month comparison, the Finance Ministry said all-German order volumes in March/April sank by 3.7% compared to January/February. "On this view, the weakening of foreign demand caused by the global conditions was the dominating factor," it said. Foreign orders were off 5.9% on this basis, as against a fall in domestic orders of 1.9%. For table of statistics on manufacturing orders, as provided by the Finance Ministry see story .1642.

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