-
US wholesale inventories up 0.2% in December
Wholesale inventories in the United States rose 0.2% in December 2025 compared to November's revised figures, coming in at $918 billion, the US Census Bureau unveiled in a report on Tuesday. Year over year, the reading was up 2.9%. Sales of merchant wholesalers, adjusted for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes, stood at $722.1 billion, growing 1% month on month and surging 5.2% on an annual basis. The ratio between inventories and sales for merchant wholesalers was at 1.27 in December, falling from the same period a year ago, when it ran at 1.30.
- Comments / Top
- Subscribe
-
Related Stories
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) today released the December 2025 results for the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices. Cotality continues to have transaction delays from the recording office in Wayne County, the most populous county in the Detroit metro area. These delays impacted the December transaction data and, therefore, no valid December 2025 update of ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new blanket tariffs came into force on Tuesday — but investors appear to be shrugging the changes off, with one analyst telling CNBC they were “bigger issues.” Trump announced over the weekend that a new, blanket 15% global levy on imports to the U.S. The president initially announced plans to impose a 10% duty on global ...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi voiced concerns about raising interest rates to Bank of Japan's Governor Kazuo Ueda during their meeting on February 16, Mainichi Shimbun reported on Tuesday, citing multiple sources. Takaichi refused to disclose details of the meeting to the press. Nevertheless, the sources revealed that her "stance was stricter than ...
