Business inventories for November 2020

  • Prior report
  • Business inventories MoM +0.5% vs. 0.5% estimate. Last month rose 0.8% revised up from 0.7%
  • Business sales -0.1% vs. 0.9% last month, up 1.5% from November 2019
  • Inventories YoY -3.2% vs. November 2019
  • Inventory/sales ratio 1.32 vs. 1.32 last month. That is down from November 2019 ratio 1.39.
  • Manufacturing inventories rise by 0.7% vs. 0.3% last month. Year on year -0.7%
  • retail inventories rose by 0.7% vs. 0.9% last month. Year on year -7.1%
  • wholesale inventories were unchanged vs. 1.3% last month. Year on year -2.1%
Business inventories rise by 0.5%