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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales - April 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for April 2020: The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for April, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,184.8 billion, down 14.4 percent (±0.2 percent) from March 2020 and was down 18.4 percent (±0.3 percent) from April 2019. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for April, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,981.2 billion, down 1.3 percent (±0.1 percent) from ... (full story)