OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian factory sales likely fell 1.1% in April from March, Statistics Canada said in a flash estimate on Tuesday. The decrease is mostly attributed to lower sales in the transportation equipment industry.
Factory sales rose 3.5% in March.
Statscan said the estimate had been calculated based on responses received from 47% of companies surveyed. The average final response rate for the survey over the past 12 months has been 91.5%, it added.
(Reporting by Steve Scherer, editing by Dale Smith)
