Based on provisional data, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in manufacturing in May 2015 decreased a seasonally and working-day adjusted 0.2% on April 2015. In April 2015, the increase on the previous month showed a corrected +2.2% (primary +1.4%). In May 2015, domestic orders decreased 0.6% while foreign orders increased 0.2% on the previous month. As regards the direction of trade in foreign transactions, new orders from the euro area were down 1.5% on the previous month while new orders from other countries ascended by 1.2%. In May 2015 the manufacturers of ... (full story)