US wholesale inventories for April (preliminary) 2020

  • US wholesale inventories preliminary for April +0.4% vs. -0.7% estimate
  • prior inventories -1% vs. -0.8% initially reported
  • retail inventories -3.6% vs. -0.8% estimate
  • prior retail inventories 1.2% vs. 1.0% from the previous release
  • durable goods inventories fall by -0.2% month on month vs. 0.5% gain last month
  • nondurable goods rose 1.3% vs. -3.3% last month
  • excluding motor vehicle parts -1.1% vs. -0.8%
Wholesale inventories for April