SIfn up for thereest of VICE, delivered to your inbox daily.
Dell said revenue in the laptop segment fell 2percentto to $3.8 billion, in the quarter on a 2percentt increase in shipments.
Last month, we shipped thirty-five hundred tons — a seven-hundred-per-cent increase in shipments in three months".
A 13percentt increase in exports, including a 20percentt increase in shipments to Asia, powered the ninth consecutive monthly expansion in the surplus.
China's exports rose 21 percent, but that paled in comparison to the 47 percent gain reported by South Korea and the 77 percent increase in shipments from Taiwan.
A sustained increase in shipments and orders of machinery, fabricated metals, electronic equipment and other goods would offer a clue that businesses were increasing production and replacing their depleted inventories.
LANDSTAR SYSTEM INC., Jacksonville, Fla., a freight carrier, said it had opened a truck equipment repair and inspection center in Laredo, Tex., to handle an expected increase in shipments between the United States and Mexico.
"Couple that with the increase in shipments of the classics, and it's a sign that regardless of the talk, when retailers are actually placing orders, they're doing so with a very classic mind-set," Mr. Green said.
Meanwhile Adam Woolf at Indesit, the Hotpoint manufacturer, has said it saw an 8.5% increase in shipments to retailers in May, with sales of tumble driers up 38% in the past two months as consumers have been prevented from hanging their washing out to dry because of the wet weather.
In addition, with Motorola and other manufacturers all reporting a sharp increase in shipments from the second quarter, some investors are worried that sales to consumers' demand may not keep up, leading to an inventory glut by the end of the year, Mr. Versace said.
