Summary
For the quarter ended in October 2011 industry new orders rose 4.1% in year-on-year terms, after the increase of 11.4% observed in the previous month. This deceleration was determined by the behaviour of the indices of both markets, more intense in the case of the domestic market, which moved from a year-on-year growth rate of 7.4% in September to a decrease of 4.8% in October. External market year-on-year change rate was 12.6% (15.0% in the previous month).