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Business Inventories up 1.5% in February 2022
The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for February, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,804.6 billion, up 1.0 percent (±0.2 percent) from January 2022 and was up 18.8 percent (±0.4 percent) from February 2021.
Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for February, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,270.3 billion, up 1.5 percent (±0.1 percent) from January 2022 and were up 12.4 percent (±0.5 percent) from February 2021.
The total business Inventories/Sales Ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of February was 1.26. The February 2021 ratio was 1.33.
Posted: April 14, 2022 Thursday 10:00 AM