US Business Inventories Rose 0.3% in May
17 July 2019 - 12:30AM
Dow Jones News
WASHINGTON--U.S. business inventories increased 0.3% in May to a
seasonally adjusted $2.036 trillion, the Commerce Department said
Tuesday. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had
expected inventories to rise 0.3% in May from the prior month.
Here are some key takeaways from the report:
--Breaking down by sector, factory inventories rose 0.2% in May
from April. Retail inventories increased 0.4%, and wholesale
inventories were up 0.4% on the month.
--The overall pace of sales was slower, rising 0.2% in May from
the prior month.
--The inventories-to-sales ratio in May was 1.39, the same as in
April. It had been 1.34 in May 2018.
The Commerce Department data on business inventories can be
found at
http://www.census.gov/mtis/www/data/pdf/mtis_current.pdf.
Write to Paul Kiernan at paul.kiernan@wsj.com
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