US total business inventories
ObservedEnd-of-month inventories held by US manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, seasonally adjusted.
Ingestedfrom Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisfreshJSON export
Current value, World
no observations ingested yet
- Geography
- World (WLD)
- Observation date
- none
- Unit
- millions of dollars
- Frequency
- monthly
- Ingested
- never
1-year changeno observations ingested yet
10-year trendno observations ingested yet
Historical series
US total business inventories, World
Observed
No observations ingested yet for World.
Definition
What this measures
Total business inventories from the Census Bureau's Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales report: manufacturers', merchant wholesalers' and retailers' inventories at the end of the month, in millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted. FRED series BUSINV. Inventory coverage is a buffer measure for the physical economy.
- Direction
- contextual, not scored
- Geography level
- country
- Slug
- us-business-inventories
Economy & Capital
Related metrics
- GDP per person, constant 2015 US$Observed
- Gross capital formation as share of GDPObserved
- US 10-year Treasury yieldObserved
- US 10-year minus 2-year Treasury spreadObserved
- US 2-year Treasury yieldObserved
- US M2 money stockObserved
- US consumer price index, all itemsObserved
- US consumer price index, all items (BLS API)Observed
- US consumer price index, all items less food and energyObserved
- US consumer sentimentObserved
- US federal funds effective rateObserved
- US nominal GDPObserved
- US nominal GDP (BEA API)Observed
- US nonfarm payroll employmentObserved
- US personal consumption expenditures price indexObserved
- US producer price index, all commoditiesObserved
- US real GDPObserved
- US real gross national productObserved
- US real private fixed investmentObserved
- US retail and food services salesObserved
- US total vehicle salesObserved
- US unemployment rateObserved
Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
- Classification
- Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
- Source organization
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED economic data (API)
- Series ID
BUSINVlast fetch: ok- Source links
- Source homepage: https://fred.stlouisfed.org
- License and attribution
- License review requiredFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED. Individual series carry their own originating-source license.
- Last source update
- 2026-08-14 09:02:27-05(source revision label as published by the provider)
- Last ingestion
- last successful runfresh
- Last run
- success2026-09-07 10:04 UTC
- Parser version
- fred-api/1.0.0
- Methodology version
- 1.0
- Quality and confidence
- Revised with the annual benchmark of the underlying surveys.Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 100,000,000 millions of dollars.
- Revisions
- no observations ingested yet