The Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders report shows factory new orders increased 0.8% for October. September showed a 4.5% increase whereas August had a -5.1% decline. This Census statistical release is called Factory Orders by the press and covers both durable and non-durable manufacturing orders, shipments and inventories.
The Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders report shows factory new orders increased 2.8% for July. This is quite a turn around and new orders have increased two of the last three months, although May and June together were a wash, with +0.5% and -0.5% monthly changes in new orders respectively.
The Manufacturing and Trade Sales and Inventories report shows a -1.1% decrease in sales and an +0.1% increase in inventories for June 2012. Sales declined -1.1% for manufacturers, -0.8% for retailers and -1.4% for wholesalers. This is the 3rd month in a row for declining sales and this is the largest monthly percentage decrease since March 2009.
Business Inventories, or Manufacturing and Trade Sales and Inventories, show a -0.1% decrease in sales and an +0.3% increase in inventories for May 2012. Inventories for Merchant wholesalers increased +0.3%, manufacturers' inventories declined -0.2% and retailer's inventories increased +1.0%.
Business Inventories, or Manufacturing and Trade Sales and Inventories, show a 0.4% increase in sales and an 0.3% increase in inventories for June 2011. Earlier, wholesale inventories, about a third of all inventories, reported earlier, also showed a 0.6% increase for June.
Business Inventories, or Manufacturing and Trade Sales and Inventories, show a 1.1% increase in sales and an 0.8% increase in inventories for December. Earlier, wholesale inventories, about a third of all inventories, reported earlier, also showed a 1.0% increase for December.
Business Inventories, or Manufacturing and Trade Sales and Inventories, show a 1.2% increase in sales but only a 0.2% increase in inventories in comparison to October. Earlier, wholesale inventories, about a third of all inventories, also showed a deceleration in growth.
The Manufacturing, Trade, Inventories & Sales for April 2010 is out. Sales were down, -0.9% and inventories up 0.1% for the month. For manufacturers sales were down -1.3%, for retailers down -1.2%. Merchant wholesalers had a 0.3% rise in business sales.
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