Business Inventories Up A Bit

Nov. 16, 2005
Adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, U.S. business inventories were $1.282 trillion at the end of September, the most recent month for which data are available, the U.S. Commerce Department reported on Nov. 16. That figure is half ...

Adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, U.S. business inventories were $1.282 trillion at the end of September, the most recent month for which data are available, the U.S. Commerce Department reported on Nov. 16. That figure is half a percent point higher than August's $1.276 trillion. Economists had expected a slightly smaller increase of three-tenths percent in September. Business inventories include inventories held by manufacturers, retailers and merchant wholesalers.

Among U.S. manufacturers alone, inventories totaled $462.7 billion at the end of September, down a tenth of a percentage point from August from August's $463.1 billion.

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