Wholesale inventories in the United States increased by 0.8% in January of 2025 compared to December's revised figures for the same year and stood at $906.2 billion, slightly falling from expectations, the US Census Bureau declared in its report on Thursday. Total inventories jumped 1.2% on an annual basis.
The sales of merchant wholesalers, adjusted for seasonal variations and trading-day differences but not for price changes amounted to $680.0 billion, dropping 1.3% from December's revised figure and increasing 3.5% compared to the same period of 2024.
Inventory-to-sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data stood at 1.33, going down from 1.36 reported in January of the year prior.