US Final Wholesale Inventories m/m

Wholesale inventories in the United States rose by 0.2% in July compared to June's revised figures and reached $903.5 billion, according to the US Census Bureau report delivered on Monday. Inventories increased by 0.4% compared to July 2023. The sales of merchant wholesalers, adjusted for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, amounted to $661.0 billion in July, growing by 1.1% month over month and 2.9% annually. Based on seasonally adjusted data, the ratio between inventories and sales was 1.35, ...

U.S. wholesale inventories continued to increase in July, but the pace in which firms restocked shelves slowed compared with the previous month amid cooling demand. Inventories of U.S. merchant wholesalers rose 0.6% in July on month, down from a 1.8% increase in June, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected a 0.8% increase. Inventories were up 25.1% from the same month a year earlier. The ratio of inventories to sales stood at 1.29, up from the 1.26 the previous month and well ...

Wholesale inventories in the U.S. grew in May at a robust pace, signaling that firms continued to invest in restocking shelves. Inventories of U.S. merchant wholesalers rose 1.8% in May compared with the previous month, according to data from the Commerce Department released Friday. In April, wholesale inventories increased by a faster 2.3%. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected inventories to advance by 2%. The ratio of inventories to sales continued to recover in May, coming in at 1.26, up from 1.25 in April and ...

Wholesale inventories in the U.S. increased solidly in April compared with the previous month, reflecting firms' restocking efforts amid persisting supply-chain bottlenecks. Inventories of U.S. merchant wholesalers rose 2.2% in April on month, easing from the revised 2.7% increase registered in March, data from the Commerce Department showed Wednesday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected inventories to increase by 2.1% in April. The ratio of inventories to sales stood at 1.25 in April, up from 1.23 in March and ...

Inventories at U.S. wholesalers rose a sharp 1.3% in May as businesses rushed to keep up with a flood of demand for their goods and services. The recovering economy has spurred customers to snap up cars, appliances electronics and many other goods. They are also taking vacations again and going out to eat more. Wholesale sales rose 0.8% in May and they are up a whopping 37% over the past year. Most companies have struggled to boost production as much as they would like, however, due to shortages of supplies and labor. These ...

U.S. wholesale inventories rose sightly less than initially estimated in March as sales surged amid robust demand. The Commerce Department said on Friday that wholesale inventories increased 1.3%, instead of 1.4% as estimated last month. Stocks at wholesalers gained 1.0% in February. The component of wholesale inventories that goes into the calculation of gross domestic product increased 1.3% in March. Wholesale inventories shot up 4.5% in March from a year earlier. Sales at wholesalers jumped 4.6% after being unchanged in February. ...