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US manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, November 2024
— The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for November 2024. The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for November, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,893.1 billion, up 0.5 percent (±0.2 percent) from October 2024 and was up 2.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from November 2023. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for November, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,588.2 billion, up 0.1 ... (full story)