Wholesale inventories for September (F) -0.4% v -0.3% estimate Last -0.3%
Wholesale trade sales MoM for September 0.0% versus 0.2% estimate.
Last month revised to -0.1% from 0.0%.
Auto stocks slumped 1.2 percent (vs -0.3 percent in August)
Furniture inventories declined 1.7 percent (vs -0.9 percent in August).
Other notable decreases were recorded for metals (-0.8 percent vs -0.5 percent), drugs (-2.2 percent vs 0.6 percent), groceries (-1.2 percent vs 0.0 percent), farm products (-4.9 percent vs -2.9 percent), and petroleum (-2.0 percent vs -3.9 percent).
Year-on-year, wholesale stocks rose 4.8 percent in September.
Wholesale Inventories in the United States averaged 0.39 percent from 1992 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 2.10 percent in May of 2011 and a record low of -2 percent in March of 2009. source: U.S. Census Bureau