Manufacturers’ and trade inventories in the US rose by 0.6 percent from a month earlier in December 2020, following a 0.5 percent growth in November and beating market expectations of 0.5 percent. Stocks increased at retailers (1.2 percent vs 0.7 percent), and manufacturers (0.3 percent vs 0.8 percent) and merchant wholesalers (0.3 percent vs 0.0 percent). source: U.S. Census Bureau
Business Inventories in the United States averaged 0.26 percent from 1992 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 1.30 percent in May of 1994 and a record low of -2.30 percent in May of 2020. This page provides - United States Business Inventories - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Business Inventories - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on March of 2021.
Business Inventories in the United States is expected to be 0.20 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Business Inventories in the United States to stand at 0.30 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Business Inventories is projected to trend around 0.20 percent in 2022, according to our econometric models.