Economic Briefing Room (as of Thu Mar 4 15:03:22 2010 GMT)

Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales

http://www.census.gov/bussales

U.S. total business sales for December 2009 were $1,040.4 billion, up 0.9% from last month. Month end inventories were $1,310.7 billion, but virtually unchanged from last month.

December 2009: +0.9 % Change in sales
November 2009: +2.0 % Change in sales