Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories

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Monthly Wholesale Trade

Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories
09/09/2024 10:00 AM EDT

July 2024 sales of merchant wholesalers were $671.0 billion, up 1.1 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. End-of-month inventories were $903.5 billion, up 0.2 percent (+/- 0.2 percent)* from last month.


July 2024: +0.2* % Change in Inventories
June 2024 (r): 0.0* % Change in Inventories

Special Notice: On September 9, 2024, the Census Bureau revised and updated the Monthly Real Dollar Estimates of Wholesale Sales to incorporate inventory data. The experimental data product will now be called Monthly Wholesale Real Dollar Estimates. These experimental tables will be released at the same time as the Monthly Wholesale Trade report each month. Those tables can be found at census.gov/wholesale/real.html.

(*)The 90% confidence interval includes zero. The Census Bureau does not have sufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.

(r) Revised.

Estimates are adjusted for seasonal variation and trading day differences but not for price changes.

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