The US Census Bureau announced today that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for June 2017, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,356.8 billion, up 0.3 percent (±0.2 percent) from May 2017 and was up 4.3 percent (±0.4 percent) from June 2016.
Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,869.3 billion, up 0.5 percent (±0.1 percent) from May 2017 and were up 2.8 percent (±0.2 percent) from June 2016.
The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of June was 1.38. The June 2016 ratio was 1.40.