Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales (Census) release for August | US Census Bureau | 5 October 2017 |
Economic Calendar
Category: USA Manufacturing Survey
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| Date | 5 Oct 2017 8:00am EDT about 7 years ago |
Details
The purpose of the report is to provide broad and timely measures of combined changes in domestic retail trade, wholesale trade and manufacturers' activities. The United States Code, Title 13, authorizes the surveys in this report and provides for voluntary responses.
The estimates in this report are based on data from three surveys: the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey.
Typical stories:
- Manufacturing Inventories Signal Demand Improvement
- Retail Sales Remain Flat M/M in Month X
- Wholesale Inventories Slide to X-Month/Year Low
- Industry X Books Healthy Draw in Inventories
- Industry Y Pressured by Sluggish Demand, Inventory/Sales Figures Show
- Industry Z Enjoys Sales at X-Month High