The US Census Bureau announced that the combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for December, adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes, was estimated at $1,494.2 billion, up 0.8 percent (±0.2 percent) from November 2020 and was up 2.5 percent (±0.4 percent) from December 2019.
Manufacturers’ and trade inventories for December, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,971.7 billion, up 0.6 percent (±0.1 percent) from November 2020, but were down 2.6 percent (±0.4 percent) from December 2019.
基于12月底的季节性调整数据的业务库存/销售比率为1.32。2019年12月比率为1.39。