Manufacturing, trade inventories and sales for Aug
13 Oct '07
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The U.S. Census Bureau announced that 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 $1,119.1 billion, down 0.4 percent (±0.2%) from July 2007 and up 3.0 percent (±0.3%) from August 2006.
Manufacturers' and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,420.8 billion, up 0.1 percent (±0.1%)* from July 2007 and up 3.0 percent (±0.3%) from August 2006.
The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of August was 1.27. The August 2006 ratio was also 1.27.
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