United States Wholesale Inventories

US wholesale inventories fell 0.1 percent from a month earlier in March 2019, instead of being unchanged as previously reported and after an upwardly revised 0.4 percent gain in February. Auto stocks dropped 0.9 percent after edging up 0.1 percent in the prior month, while wholesale apparel inventories increased 1.7 percent, easing from a 2 percent rise. Year-on-year, wholesale inventories grew 6.7 percent in March. Wholesale Inventories in the United States averaged 0.39 percent from 1992 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 2.10 percent in May of 2011 and a record low of -2 percent in March of 2009.

Wholesale Inventories in the United States is expected to be 0.40 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Wholesale Inventories in the United States to stand at -0.40 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Wholesale Inventories is projected to trend around 0.20 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-03-22	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2019-04-17	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM	0.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%
2019-05-03	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2019-05-09	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM	-0.1%	0.4%	0%	0.0%
2019-05-30	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv		-0.1%		0.3%
2019-06-07	02:00 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM		-0.1%
2019-06-26	12:30 PM	Wholesale Inventories MoM Adv

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	52.80	55.30	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.60	52.40	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	53.00	55.30	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	55.50	56.10	62.00	37.80		[+]
Composite Pmi	53.00	54.60	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	0.90	2.30	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.50	0.20	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-0.20	0.70	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	77.93	78.46	89.39	66.69	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	2.70	-1.10	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	2.30	-1.70	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.40	-0.20	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.80	0.30	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	508192.00	497474.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	1.90	-0.30	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.00	0.30	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	128.39	96.80	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	-0.10	0.40	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22157.00	22232.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2076.20	2076.82	2076.82	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	103.50	101.80	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	77.30	66.90	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	16.60	8.50	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	17.80	10.10	39.00	-34.40	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	3.00	10.00	29.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	-0.45	0.05	2.78	-5.27		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	2.00	6.90	47.60	-59.90	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	52.60	58.70	78.60	21.20	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.42	2.46	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	377.46	389.93	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	16.40	17.45	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	5.43	-3.96	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	106.00	85.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-1123.00	-596.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	125.78	125.56	125.78	46.91	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	2.40	8.60	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	802.00	805.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	71.00	75.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	22.00	16.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	85.64	84.84	85.64	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	1.00	1.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	8.00	6.00	8.00	4.00		[+]
Steel Production	7752.00	6896.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	10.40	9.80	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 May of 2019.