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The reading on durable goods orders surprised to the upside but Bob Brusca, chief economist at Fact & Opinion Economics, tells the Journal’s Mathew Passy that he sees manufacturing slowing down.

U.S. factory sector appears to be slowing slightly, according to an early reading of May activity released Thursday.

Mid-Atlantic manufacturers slipped into contraction this month, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Manufacturing output fell 0.4% in April, after slumping 0.3% in March and 0.2% in January.

The surprisingly positive April employment figures likely didn’t mean the local factory added a shift last month.

New Zealand’s short-term economic picture is healthier than Australia’s, putting the latest economic score at Kiwis 3, Aussies 0.

There isn’t a manufacturing renaissance, says economist Daniel J. Ikenson, because there was never a decline in the first place.

Manufacturing employment barely expanded in April.

Bradley Holcomb, of the Institute for Supply Management, discusses the state of the manufacturing sector with the Wall Street Journal’s Mathew Passy.