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Manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, August 2019
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for August 2019: The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for August, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,463.9 billion, up 0.2 percent (±0.1 percent) from July 2019 and was up 1.1 percent (±0.4 percent) from August 2018. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,042.1 billion, virtually unchanged (±0.1 percent)* from July 2019, ... (full story)