Posted on 09/14/2011 9:43:25 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
Inventories at U.S. businesses rose 0.4% in July...Business sales rose 0.7%...The inventory-to-sales ratio declined to 1.27 in July from 1.28 in the prior month.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
This is a hard report to read but my guess here is that businesses are playing it safe, and aren't going to let inventories jump ahead of sales.
Full report here: http://www2.census.gov/wholesale/pdf/mwts/currentwhl.pdf
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