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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales - December 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for December 2020: tables The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for December, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,494.2 billion, up 0.8 percent (±0.2 percent) from November 2020 and was up 2.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from December 2019. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for December, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,971.7 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.1 ... (full story)