And capital goods also experienced a broad declined: Caterpillar fell 1.6%, as Deere lost 0.6%.
Encouragingly, a big slice of these imports has been machinery and other capital goods.
For instance, UBS cited capital goods company Krones which last year cut costs significantly.
Among the European capital goods companies UBS is recommending investors buy are ABB and Scania.
Despite falling 1.3% due to the volatile aerospace sector, there were strong increases in capital goods.
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: PulteGroup (PHM), Ryland Group (RYL), and Lennar (LEN).
Recessions in the fifties and even the sixties were inventory and capital goods generated.
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Sauer-Danfoss Inc. (SHS) and Colfax (CFX).
Non-defense capital goods orders excluding aircraft-considered yardstick for capital spending by businesses--decreased 1.7% in June.
GDP, he argued, does not allow for the depreciation of capital goods so it exaggerates productivity gains.
Industrialised countries, notably Japan and South Korea, have found a big market for capital goods.
On a core basis, capital goods expenditures jumped 2.7% much better than the anticipated 0% increase.
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These changes provide an incentive for entrepreneurs to hire additional workers and increase investment in capital goods.
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The most suspect sectors are technology, capital goods and basic industrials, along with oil and other commodities.
Among the sectors that hedge funds are most overweight is capital goods, UBS notes in its report.
Foreign orders for German capital goods slumped by 14% in September, suggesting firms worldwide are cutting investment.
Factories saw a 6.3% rise in demand for non-defence capital goods, pointing to a rebound in business confidence.
To help its businesses, Argentina has already unilaterally cut tariffs on capital goods from outside Mercosur from 14% to 6%.
Leaders in the capital goods sector, like Deere, Caterpillar and General Electric, saw shares sell off.
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Orders for capital goods, excluding aircraft and defence, fell by 5.1% in October, the first drop in six months.
Meanwhile, Austrian theory focuses on the way changes of interest rates change the pattern of investment in capital goods.
Imports, especially of capital goods, also play their part in Australia's exporting success.
After coming to power in 1984, he made it a little easier for businessmen to import foreign capital goods.
Capital goods output has contracted in eight of the 11 months till February.
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Astrotech Corp. (ASTC), Boeing (BA), and Northrop Grumman (NOC).
However, orders for core capital goods, including machinery and equipment, fell by 3.2%.
If investors want to play the world growth story, should they be rushing out and buying capital goods stocks?
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Boeing (BA), Goodrich (GR), and Northrop Grumman (NOC).
Other competitors in the capital goods sector include: Fluor (FLR), URS Corp (URS), and Shaw Group (SHAW).
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