Excluding transportation, new orders for durable goods are up 9.6% at an annual rate in the first five months of 2006 while unfilledorders are up 12.8%.
With over 800 unfilledorders pending for the 787 and given its superior features, it represents a significant driver in capturing market share in the commercial aircraft sector.
Last summer, Direct Edge was at the center of a controversy over so-called flash trading, in which users of its ECN are flashed unfilledorders for fractions of a second before those orders are routed out to rival exchanges.