Inventory Build? Nope...

Bloomberg with some faulty analysis: Inventories at U.S. wholesalers rose more than twice as much as forecast in October as companies stock...

Wholesales Sales and Inventories Grow

The AP reports: Inventories held by wholesalers rose for a fourth straight month in April while sales rose for a 13 th consecutive time. B...

Wholesales Sales Jump... How Much is "Real"

Peter Boockvar (via The Big Picture ): March Wholesale Inventories rose .4%, a touch below expectations of a gain of .5% and with a 2.4% ris...

Explaining Inventory Rebuild

I received a comment asking for better clarity as to why this morning's Wholesale Sales / Inventories report may be good news (stronge...

Promising Wholesale Figures

WSJ reports: U.S. wholesalers' inventories unexpectedly fell 0.2% in January, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, as surging demand...

Wholesale Inventories and Q4 GDP Revisions

Professional economists were predicting inventories to "continue to rebuild" from November's level. Amateur economists (i.e. m...

Breaking Down Wholesale Inventories

Friday's surprise 1.5% gain in Wholesale Inventories (i.e. what appeared to be an inventory rebuild) was not real, just like last month...