United States Business Inventories

Business inventories in the United States increased 0.6 percent month-over-month in October of 2018, following an upwardly revised 0.5 percent rise in September and in line with market expectations. Stocks went up faster at retailers (0.8 percent compared to 0.1 percent in September), wholesalers (0.8 percent compared to 0.7 percent) and for autos and parts (1.1 percent compared to 0.5 percent) but increased less for manufacturers (0.1 percent compared to 0.6 percent). Retail inventories excluding autos, which go into the calculation of GDP, jumped 0.7 percent after falling 0.1 percent in September. Business Inventories in the United States averaged 0.28 percent from 1992 until 2018, 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 0.20 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 0.50 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
2018-09-14	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%
2018-10-15	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%
2018-11-15	03:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2018-12-14	03:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%
2019-01-28	03:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM		0.6%	0.3%	0.4%
2019-02-15	03:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM				0.2%
2019-03-14	02:00 PM	Business Inventories MoM

United States Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	54.10	59.30	77.50	29.40	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	53.80	55.30	57.90	50.70		[+]
Services PMI	54.40	54.70	61.00	49.30	Index Points	[+]
Non Manufacturing PMI	57.60	60.70	62.00	37.60		[+]
Composite Pmi	54.40	54.70	61.00	50.00	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	4.00	4.10	62.00	-33.70	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.30	0.40	16.60	-10.40	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	3.20	2.10	67.90	-39.40	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	78.73	78.60	89.39	66.71	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders	0.80	-4.30	23.50	-19.00	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Defense	-0.10	-1.40	26.00	-19.70	percent	[+]
Durable Goods Orders Ex Transportation	-0.30	0.40	7.50	-6.80	percent	[+]
Factory Orders Ex Transportation	0.30	0.10	4.60	-7.20	percent	[+]
New Orders	502677.00	515334.00	565232.00	223500.00	USD Million	[+]
Factory Orders	-2.10	0.20	10.60	-10.00	percent	[+]
Business Inventories	0.60	0.50	1.30	-2.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	89.77	-36.81	166.37	-245.13	USD Billion	[+]
Wholesale Inventories	0.80	0.70	2.10	-2.00	percent	[+]
Bankruptcies	22103.00	22245.00	82446.00	19695.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	2076.82	2007.53	2076.82	14.70	USD Billion	[+]
NFIB Business Optimism Index	104.40	104.80	108.80	80.10	Index Points	[+]
Ism New York Index	65.40	67.80	88.80	23.40	percent	[+]
Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index	17.00	9.10	58.50	-57.90	Index Points	[+]
NY Empire State Manufacturing Index	3.90	11.50	39.00	-34.40	Index Points	[+]
Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	-8.00	14.00	29.00	-44.00	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Fed National Activity Index	0.22	0.00	2.77	-5.22		[+]
Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index	-5.10	17.60	47.10	-60.10	Index Points	[+]
Chicago Pmi	65.40	66.40	81.00	20.70	Index Points	[+]
Car Production	2.71	2.64	9.92	1.29	Million Units	[+]
Car Registrations	431.72	436.69	1149.00	331.50	Thousand	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	17.55	17.49	21.77	9.05	Million	[+]
Crude Oil Stocks Change	-2.68	-1.68	14.42	-15.22	BBL/1Million	[+]
Natural Gas Stocks Change	-81.00	-91.00	147.00	-359.00	Billion cf	[+]
Gasoline Stocks Change	7503.00	8066.00	11456.00	-8428.00	Thousand Barrels	[+]
Leading Economic Index	124.80	124.54	124.80	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	-0.56	-6.27	14.30	-12.40	BBL/1Million	[+]
Crude Oil Rigs	852.00	873.00	1609.00	98.00		[+]
Corruption Index	75.00	74.00	78.00	71.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	16.00	18.00	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	7425.00	7571.00	11951.00	3799.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Mining Production	13.40	12.90	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 January of 2019.