By Maria Martinez
(Reuters) -German industrial orders unexpectedly fell in July due to a drop in large-scale orders, data showed on Friday.
German industrial orders declined by 2.9% on the previous month on a seasonally and calendar-adjusted basis, the federal statistics office said on Friday.
A Reuters poll of analysts had pointed to a rise of 0.5%.
When large-scale orders are excluded, new orders were 0.7% higher than in the previous month.
The less volatile three-month on three-month comparison showed that new orders in the period from May to July were 0.2% higher than in the previous three months.
After revision of the provisional data, new orders in June decreased by 0.2% on the month, instead of falling by 1.0%. The revision is due to corrected data reported by a large enterprise in the automotive industry.
(Additional reporting by Daria Bogdanska in Gdansk, editing by Thomas Seythal and Rachel More)
