New orders in the Romanian industrial sector went down 4.1% compared with the previous month but were up 1.4% from October 2013.
New orders in the capital goods sector fell 7% in October compared with the earlier month, while orders in the durable and intermediate goods sector were both down 1.6% on the month. Consumer goods orders were up 3% compared with September.
Compared with October 2013, new orders for durable goods were up 1.4%. Orders in the durable goods sector rose 51.2% on the year in October, while demand for consumer and intermediate goods went up by 6.5% and 0.9% respectively. New orders in the capital goods sector declined 1.3% year-on-year in October.
In the first ten months of 2014, Romanian industrial orders advanced 6.2% on the year, helped by growing demand in all sectors.