Stronger orders for primary metals and fabricated metal products in February suggest that tariff effects helped to drive up core durable goods orders last month, while transportation orders also did better than we expected. With underlying capital goods shipments also doing well, machinery & equipment investment is on track to rebound this quarter, albeit not by enough to prevent a sharp slowdown in overall GDP growth.
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