Economic Buzz: US business inventories up 2.2% in April

The U.S. Census Bureau announced the following new manufacturing and trade statistics for April 2025.

The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers? shipments for April was estimated at $1,922.8 billion, down 0.1 percent from March 2025, but was up 3.8 percent from April 2024.

Manufacturers? and trade inventories for April were estimated at an end-of-month level of $2,656.5 billion, virtually unchanged from March 2025, but were up 2.2 percent from April 2024.

The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of April was 1.38. The April 2024 ratio was 1.40.

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