{"id":428162,"date":"2026-03-09T14:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/germany-january-industrial-orders-11-1-vs-4-5-m-m-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:25:10","slug":"germany-january-industrial-orders-11-1-vs-4-5-m-m-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/germany-january-industrial-orders-11-1-vs-4-5-m-m-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany January industrial orders -11.1% vs -4.5% m\/m expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior +7.8%; revised to +6.4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">When you exclude large orders, overall factory orders in Germany were just 0.4% lower than in December last year. Once again, it reflects the volatile swings in large orders mostly with December recording a major jump &#8211; its highest level since February 2022. The less volatile three-month comparison for new orders show a 1.5% increase overall instead, that is once you exclude large orders as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Looking at the details, the orders for the manufacture of metal products showed a 39.4% drop in January compared to December (which increased by 29.7%). So, that makes up for a large chunk of what we&#8217;re seeing with the headline figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">Besides that, there were also declines in mechanical engineering (-13.5%) and in metal production and processing (-15.1%) &#8211; both of which are also attributable to the lower volume of large orders in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">All of that is offset by increases in order intake in the automotive industry (+10.4%) and in other vehicle manufacturing (aircraft, ships, trains, military vehicles; +9.2%).<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior +7.8%; revised to +6.4% When you exclude large orders, overall factory orders in Germany were just 0.4% lower than in December last year. Once again, it reflects the volatile swings in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}