Excluding transportation, orders for durables climbed 1.1 percent in October.
Excluding transportation, new orders fell 1.3 percent, to $124.1 billion, and the increase in January turned out to be considerably smaller than originally announced.
Excluding transportation, orders were up six-tenths of 1 percent.
Orders excluding transportation were still soft, down three-tenths of 1 percent.
Excluding transportation, orders in all other categories were down 1.2 percent in January.
The Commerce Department said that excluding just transportation, the orders still rose a strong 6 percent.
Excluding transportation, orders rose a scant one-tenth of 1 percent in October.
But excluding transportation, orders rose for the third month in a row.
Excluding transportation, orders were up 1.8 percent in May.
But excluding transportation, orders rose just two-tenths of 1 percent.