Industrial new orders index decreased, in October, by 5.8% in year-on-year terms (reduction of 8.1% in September). The domestic market new orders index moved from a year-on-year change rate of -20.0% in September to -16.2% in October. The external market new orders index presented a year-on-year change rate of 2.0% in October, up by 0.7 percentage points from the rate observed in the previous month.