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Orders for core capital goods, which include industrial machinery and electrical equipment, fell 1.1 percent.
New orders for high-tech equipment fell 3.2%; orders for communications equipment alone fell by 20.8%.
Those who were nearby when the equipment fell said the collapse was terrifying.
On Friday, the government said that durable goods orders, excluding transportation equipment, fell 1.1percentt.
Nortel Networks, one of the largest makers of telecommunications equipment, fell 36 cents, to $5.65.
Corporate purchases of transportation equipment fell $21 billion, to $170 billion.
Cisco, the largest maker of networking equipment, fell 79 cents, to $20.21.
Caterpillar, the giant maker of construction and mining equipment, fell $2.91, to $41.75.
But exports slipped slightly, and investment in machines and equipment fell significantly.
Orders for automotive equipment fell 3.1percentt in August after declining 6percentt in July.
Ciena, which makes optical networking equipment, fell 19.9percentto to $108.38.
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