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]"This is very weak," said Chris Rupkey, senior financial economist at Bank of Tokyo/Mitsubishi-UFJ in New York. "This is what it looks like when we are going into a recession. I'll be surprised if we don't."[/URL]

Economists polled ahead of the report were expecting overall durable goods orders to advance by 3.5 percent and by 1.6 percent, excluding transportation.

The Commerce Department revised down its figures for January, reporting a 9.3 percent decline in overall durable orders in January, first recorded as a 7.8 percent decrease.

The sharp drop in January durable goods orders reported a month ago helped spark a big sell-off in U.S. equities and raised concerns at the Federal Reserve that business spending might prove weaker than they had expected.