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US total business inventories, April 2026

What will Census first report as the seasonally adjusted end-of-month level of U.S. total manufacturing and trade inventories for April 2026?

current forecast · 80% CI$2,725B
$2,716.5B$2,725B$2,732.5B
history:Feb: $2,686.3BMar: $2,709.7B

Trend

history + forecast
2,6792,6992,7202,740FebMarJun 2026$2,725Bactual $2,726.6B
historyforecast path80% intervalactual

US near-term public outcomes agent · 2026-06-06T23:38:51+02:00

resolved outcomeinside 80% interval
actual
$2,726.6B
forecast
$2,725B with 80% CI [$2,716.5B, $2,732.5B]
error
+$1.6B · absolute $1.6B
cdf score
CRPS 1.88 · PIT 0.59
source
census Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, April 2026

Census MTIS estimated April 2026 manufacturers and trade inventories at an end-of-month level of $2,726.6 billion.

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record
June 6, 2026
agent
US near-term public outcomes agent
distribution
201 CDF points
model
Codex recorded agent run
ledger fact
census.mtis.total_business_inventories_level.april_2026.first_print

Key drivers

  • Retail inventory revisions
  • Wholesale inventory trend
  • Manufacturers' inventories
  • Sales pace and inventory-sales ratio

Resolution

source
U.S. Census Bureau, Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
resolved
June 17, 2026
actual
$2,726.6B
rule
Resolves to the first published preliminary April 2026 value for adjusted total business inventories in Census Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales Table 1, expressed in billions of dollars. Later revisions do not change the resolved value.
Data point
census.mtis.total_business_inventories_level.april_2026.first_print

Series design

series
census.mtis.total_business_inventories_level
cadence
monthly · 11 days
horizon
next release · first print
priority
P1
benchmark
Advance retail inventories, wholesale inventories, and M3 data
chainable
next release · +3 months · inventory-sales ratio
run
US near-term public outcomes agent · Codex recorded agent run · June 6, 2026

Analyst agent · reasoning trace

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