Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales At a Glance
- Sales: $1,147.3 billion
- Monthly Change: Down 0.5%
- Year-to-year Change: Up 6.0%
- Inventories: $1,444.9 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 0.6%
- Inventory-to-sales ratio: 1.26
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MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES
December 2007
Sales. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for
December, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,147.3 billion, down 0.5
percent (±0.3%) from November 2007 and up 6.0 percent (±0.3%) from December 2006.
Inventories. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an
end-of-month level of $1,444.9 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.1%) from November 2007 and up 4.0 percent (±0.3%) from December
2006.
Inventories/Sales Ratio. The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of December was
1.26. The December 2006 ratio was 1.28.
Manufacturing and Trade Inventory and Sales - December 2007 [PDF]
Source: Commerce Department, Census Bureau
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