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. (full story)