{"id":428134,"date":"2026-03-06T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-business-inventories-for-december-0-1-versus-0-1-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:25:11","slug":"us-business-inventories-for-december-0-1-versus-0-1-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-business-inventories-for-december-0-1-versus-0-1-expected-428134\/","title":{"rendered":"US business inventories for December 0.1% versus 0.1% expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For what it is worth, the US business and retail inventories for the month of December was released: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business inventories rose 0.1% versus 0.1% expected. Prior month was revised lower to 0.0% from 0.1%.<\/li>\n<li>Retail inventories rose 0.4% versus 0.2% last month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"d6ihng\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"168\">\n<p data-start=\"2\" data-end=\"94\">Total sales (manufacturers\u2019 shipments + distributive trade): $1,965.9B in December<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"168\">\n<li data-section-id=\"voj4aw\" data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"131\">\n<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"131\">+0.5% m\/m vs November 2025<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1dpio0o\" data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"168\">\n<p data-start=\"136\" data-end=\"168\">+3.2% y\/y vs December 2024<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"vew8yu\" data-start=\"298\" data-end=\"416\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"354\">Inventories-to-sales ratio: 1.36 in December<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"416\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\n<li data-section-id=\"1js1btz\" data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"416\" data-is-last-node=\"\">\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"416\" data-is-last-node=\"\">1.39 in December 2024 (ratio declined year over year)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is early March, so the December data is old as the Census Department continues to catch up after the government shutdown.. <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what it is worth, the US business and retail inventories for the month of December was released: Business inventories rose 0.1% versus 0.1% expected. Prior month was revised lower to 0.0%&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}