United States Business Inventories 1992-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Manufacturers’ and trade inventories in the United States fell 0.2 percent month-over-month in April of 2017, following a 0.2 percent rise in March and matching market expectations. It is the biggest decline in six months. Inventories at wholesalers declined 0.5 percent; retailers fell 0.2 percent and those of autos and parts were down 0.4 percent. In contrast, inventories at manufacturers edged up 0.1 percent. Retail inventories excluding autos, which go into the calculation of gross domestic product, decreased 0.2 percent. Business Inventories in the United States averaged 0.27 percent from 1992 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 1.30 percent in May of 1994 and a record low of -2 percent in December of 2008.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	Forecast
2017-04-14	02:00 PM	Feb	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
2017-05-12	02:00 PM	Mar	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2017-06-14	02:00 PM	Apr	-0.2%	0.2%	-0.2%	0.2%
2017-07-14	02:00 PM	May		-0.2%		-0%
2017-08-15	02:00 PM	Jun				0.03%
2017-09-15	02:00 PM	Jul				-0.03%

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	54.90	54.80	77.50	29.40		[+]
Services PMI	53.00	53.60	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	56.90	57.50	62.00	37.60	percent	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.10	52.70	57.90	50.70		[+]
Composite Pmi	53.00	53.60	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	2.20	2.10	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.00	1.10	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.40	1.60	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	76.60	76.70	89.40	66.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	-0.70	2.30	22.10	-17.90	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-0.80	1.10	24.80	-18.60	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	-0.40	0.80	6.00	-11.10	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.10	0.20	4.60	-7.30	percent	[+]
New Orders	469030.00	478185.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-0.20	1.00	10.20	-9.40	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	-0.20	0.20	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	4.30	49.60	117.20	-206.10	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	-0.50	0.10	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	23591.00	24114.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	1571.20	1611.40	1703.60	14.40	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	104.50	104.50	107.70	80.10	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	19.80	-1.00	38.99	-34.30	Index Points	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	27.60	38.80	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	1.00	20.00	26.00	-43.00	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	46.70	55.80	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	17.20	16.80	46.60	-59.50	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.49	0.07	2.73	-5.10		[+]
Chicago Pmi	59.40	58.30	78.80	21.40	Index Points	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	16.66	16.88	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Car Production	3.48	3.54	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	524.96	569.19	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-2.45	-1.66	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	61.00	78.00	147.00	-287.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	-578.00	2096.00	11456.00	-8419.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	181.55	181.22	182.29	70.21	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	51.67	49.03	59.12	48.35		[+]
Steel Production	6995.00	6717.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	8.30	7.10	108.20	-28.80	percent	[+]
Corruption Index	74.00	76.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	18.00	16.00	24.00	14.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.70	5.61	5.79	5.42	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	3.00	3.00	7.00	1.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	8.00	7.00	8.00	4.00		[+]

United States Business Inventories Notes

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 June of 2017.