Australia Business Inventories

Australia's business inventories rose by 0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to March 2019, after an upwardly revised flat reading in the previous period. The latest reading compares with market estimates of no growth. Stocks increased in mining (2.3 percent vs -2.2 percent in Q4); manufacturing (1.4 percent vs -0.4 percent); and retailing (1.9 percent vs 0.7 percent). Meanwhile, inventories fell at electricity, gas, water & waste services providers (-11.5 percent vs 0.6 percent); accommodation and food services providers (-3.2 percent vs 9.3 percent), and wholesale traders (-0.6 percent vs 0.1 percent). Through the year to the first quarter, business inventories rose by 1.4 percent. Business Inventories in Australia averaged 0.53 percent from 1985 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 2.80 percent in the first quarter of 1999 and a record low of -2.80 percent in the third quarter of 1986.

Business Inventories in Australia 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 Business Inventories in Australia to stand at 0.50 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Australia Business Inventories is projected to trend around 0.40 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-09-03	01:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q2	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%
2018-12-03	12:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q3	0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%
2019-03-04	12:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q4	-0.2%	-0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2019-06-03	01:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q1	0.7%	0.0%	0%	0.1%
2019-09-02	01:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q2		0.7%		0.2%
2019-12-02	12:30 AM	Business Inventories QoQ Q3				0.4%

Australia Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	4.00	2.00	21.00	-30.00	Index Points	[+]
Services PMI	43.90	52.20	63.00	32.50	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	51.30	49.40	62.50	29.47		[+]
Industrial Production	1.20	3.00	12.60	-7.60	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.50	0.30	5.20	-7.10	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-1.30	-0.50	8.60	-11.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	80.89	82.06	84.62	78.24	percent	[+]
New Orders	36.00	22.00	49.00	-37.00	Index Points	[+]
Changes in Inventories	460.00	1048.00	4159.00	-3848.00	AUD Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	708.00	772.00	1123.00	217.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	93026.00	91428.00	93026.00	12032.00	AUD Million	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	117817.00	92561.00	130300.00	48099.00		[+]
Car Registrations	14330.43	14078.57	14330.43	3990.94	Thousand	[+]
Leading Economic Index	0.10	-0.07	0.54	-1.10	percent	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	0.84	-4.92	18.55	-21.17		[+]
Internet Speed	11063.10	10098.33	11063.10	1922.87	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	9859878.00	9310525.00	13859005.00	5227461.00	IP	[+]
Industrial Sentiment	51.60	52.00	57.20	50.90	Index Points	[+]
Private Investment	-1.70	1.30	15.60	-8.60	percent	[+]
Mining Production	3.20	6.80	25.20	-16.90	percent	[+]
Steel Production	475.78	493.54	819.00	238.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Services Sentiment	52.30	52.60	58.40	48.70	Index Points	[+]
Corruption Index	77.00	77.00	88.60	77.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	13.00	13.00	13.00	7.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	78.85	78.17	78.85	5.08	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	14.00	15.00	22.00	14.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.10	52.50	58.30	49.10	Index Points	[+]
Business Inventories	0.70	0.00	2.80	-2.80	percent	[+]
Ease of Doing Business	18.00	14.00	18.00	9.00		[+]

Australia Business Inventories

Business Inventories in Australia measure the quarterly percentage changes in inventories from manufacturers, retailers, and wholesalers. Inventories are a key component of gross domestic product. . This page provides - Australia Business Inventories- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Australia Business Inventories - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2019.