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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, September 2019
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for September 2019: The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for September, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,459.4 billion, down 0.2 percent (±0.2 percent)* from August 2019, but was up 0.5 percent (±0.3 percent) from September 2018. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,041.5 billion, virtually unchanged (±0.1 percent)* ... (full story)