New orders for U.S.-manufactured goods in November increased by about 1.6 percent to $532 billion, maintaining the streak which has been positive for the last 18 out of 19 months, although there was a decline in mining and oil field machinery, along with turbines, generators and other power transmission equipment. The latest numbers followed an increase of $6.4 billion in October or 1.2 percent from the previous month, according to a report published Thursday by the Census Bureau. The year-to-date change from 2020 indicated a 17.1 percent increase of $807 billion to a total of $5.5 trillion in 2021, while the value of total manufacturers’ shipments, new orders, unfilled orders, and total inventories went up by 12.9 percent. Manufacturing accounts for 11.9 percent of the U.S. economy and supports approximately 12,546,000 jobs in the country. It had been on a steady downward slide since late 2000, when it was averaging …