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Manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, October 2018
The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for October 2018: The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for October, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,469.9 billion, up 0.3 percent (±0.2 percent) from September 2018 and was up 6.1 percent (±1.3 percent) from October 2017. Manufacturers’ and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,982.2 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.1 percent) from September ... (full story)