durables

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Trends in durables orders are often driven by big swings in categories like airplane orders, because small volumes can come with big dollar figures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Consumer durables growth has collapsed from 11% to 1-2%.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The most recent survey featured plunging buying conditions for durables, as well as drops in expectations for personal finances and the short-term economic outlook.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

The behavior is that middle-income households have spent refund checks on deferred durables for decades.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

We've begun ag'in' the Rensselaers, and the durables, and the quarter-sales, and the chickens; but we don't, by no manner of means, think of eending there.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore