March 2015 US business inventories data 13 May 2015

  • Prior 0.3%. Revised to 0.2%
  • Sales +0.4% vs -0.2% in Feb
  • Inventory to sales ratio 1.36 vs 1.37 prior

A lift in sales will be welcome but there's nowt here to give GDP a boost

US business inventories

The numbers are important for the GDP revisions as the estimates in the Q1 numbers for this data point was for a rise of 0.8%