Industrial new orders decline
Tuesday 24 January 2012
In November 2011, compared with October 2011, the eurozone industrial new orders index fell by 1.3%, after a rise of 1.5% in October, Eurostat announced, on 24 January. In the EU27, new orders decreased by 1.4% in November 2011, after an increase of 0.2% in October. The largest decreases were registered in Sweden (-6.1%), Germany (-5%), Hungary and the Netherlands (both -3%). In November 2011, compared with November 2010, industrial new orders decreased by 2.7% in the eurozone and by 1.2% in the EU27. The largest decreases were registered in Portugal (-25%), Sweden (-9.7%) and Hungary (-7.4%), and the highest increases in Latvia (+35.6%), Estonia (+12.4%) and Poland (+11.3%).