United States Business Inventories

Business inventories in the United States increased 0.3 percent month-over-month in February 2019, following an upwardly revised 0.9 percent advance in January and missing market expectations of a 0.4 percent gain. Inventories at manufacturers rose 0.3 percent (vs 0.5 percent in January), as well as those at retailers (vs 0.8 percent in January). In addition, stocks at merchant wholesalers were up 0.2 percent (vs 1.2 percent in January). Retail inventories excluding autos, which go into the calculation of GDP, increased 0.4 percent in February after advancing 0.7 percent in the prior month. Business Inventories in the United States averaged 0.28 percent from 1992 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 1.30 percent in May of 1994 and a record low of -2 percent in December of 2008.

Business Inventories in the United States is expected to be 0.30 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 0.10 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Business 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
2019-02-14	03:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	-0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%
2019-03-11	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.6%	0%	0.6%	0.2%
2019-04-01	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%
2019-04-18	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%
2019-05-15	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM		0.3%		0.4%
2019-06-14	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM
2019-07-16	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	55.30	54.20	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.40	52.40	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	52.90	55.30	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	56.10	59.70	62.00	37.80		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.80	54.60	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	2.80	3.50	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.10	0.10	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.00	1.10	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.80	79.00	89.39	66.69	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-1.60	0.10	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-1.90	0.40	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	0.10	-0.10	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.30	-0.10	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	497474.00	500479.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-0.50	0.00	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.30	0.90	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	96.80	89.77	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.20	1.20	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22232.00	22103.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2076.20	2076.82	2076.82	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	101.80	101.70	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	66.90	61.10	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	8.50	13.70	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	10.10	3.70	39.00	-34.40	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	10.00	16.00	29.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	-0.29	-0.25	2.78	-5.25		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	8.30	13.10	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	58.70	64.70	78.60	21.20	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.46	2.64	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	389.93	445.50	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.45	16.57	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-1.40	7.03	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	92.00	25.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-1174.00	-7710.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	125.56	125.17	125.56	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	-3.10	4.09	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	825.00	833.00	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	6896.00	7647.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	10.50	12.70	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]

United States Business Inventories

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