The US Census Bureau announced today that September 2010 sales of merchant wholesalers were $353.9 billion, up 0.4 percent (+/- 1.1 percent) from August level, and were up 11.9 percent (+/- 1.6 percent) from the September 2009 level.
Estimates of monthly sales for the metals sector in September were $10.9 billion in September, up 2.7 percent from $10.6 billion August, and up 35.7 percent from the $8 billion in sales in September 2009.