United States Wholesale Inventories 1992-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Wholesale inventories in the United States increased 0.6 percent month-over-month in May 2018, revised from a 0.5 percent rise initially estimated and compared with a 0.1 percent gain in April. Machinery inventories jumped 1.5 percent in May (vs 0.4 percent in April) and petroleum stocks rose 2.7 percent (vs 4 percent in April). There were also increases in wholesale stocks of professional and computer equipment as well as electrical equipment, metals, lumber, furniture and hardware. By contrast, wholesale auto inventories fell 1.2 percent after a 0.2 percent gain in April. Wholesale stocks excluding autos, which goes into the calculation of GDP, increased 0.8 percent in May. Year-on-year, wholesale inventories advanced 5.9 percent. Wholesale Inventories in the United States averaged 0.38 percent from 1992 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 2.10 percent in May of 2011 and a record low of -2 percent in March of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-06-08	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM	0.1%	0.2%	0%	0.1%
2018-06-27	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv	0.5%	0.1%		0.9%
2018-07-11	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%
2018-07-26	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv		0.6%	0.5%	0.4%
2018-08-09	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM		0.6%		0.4%
2018-08-28	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv				0.3%

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	60.20	58.70	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	55.40	56.40	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	56.50	56.80	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	59.10	58.60	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	56.20	56.60	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	3.80	3.20	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.60	-0.50	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.90	1.20	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.00	77.70	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-0.60	-1.00	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-1.50	-1.50	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	-0.30	1.90	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.70	0.90	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	498174.00	494448.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	0.40	-0.40	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.40	0.30	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	13.86	15.56	132.20	-206.10	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.60	0.10	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	23106.00	23157.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	1920.00	1767.00	1920.00	14.40	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	107.20	107.80	107.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	55.00	56.40	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	25.70	19.90	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	22.60	25.00	39.00	-35.10	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	20.00	16.00	30.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	-0.15	0.42	2.76	-5.16		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	36.50	26.80	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	64.10	62.70	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.72	2.70	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	525.48	461.17	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.47	16.91	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	5.84	-12.63	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	46.00	51.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-3165.00	-694.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	123.07	122.91	184.16	70.21	Index Points	[+]
Internet Speed	18747.58	17235.62	18747.58	3609.31	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	128949703.00	127873899.00	146874246.00	89399946.00	IP	[+]
API Crude Oil Stock Change	0.63	-6.80	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	858.00	863.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.85	5.70	5.85	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	2.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	6.00	8.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7107.00	6930.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	12.90	12.60	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Wholesale Inventories

The Wholesale Inventories are the stock of unsold goods held by wholesalers. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product changes. A high inventory points to economic slowdown in the US, while a low reading points to a stronger growth. . This page provides - United States Wholesale Inventories - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Wholesale Inventories - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2018.