• Prior month 0.3% revised higher to 0.4%
• Business inventories for June 0.0% vs 0.1% estimate
• Retail inventories ex autos -0.4% vs -0.2% last month.

Sales show a sharp fall in June but still up strong for the year. 

• June business sales: $2.111 trillion
• Month-over-month:-1.1% vs. May 2026
• Year-over-year:+10.0% vs. June 2025
• Sales figures are seasonally and trading-day adjusted, but not adjusted for price changes.

The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of June was 1.30. The June 2025 ratio was 1.39.

The Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales estimates are based on data from three surveys: the Monthly Retail Trade Survey, the Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey, and the Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Survey. Data for the wholesale and manufacturing sectors are unrevised from the most recent Monthly Wholesale Trade Report and the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and orders. Data from the Retail sector is revised and presented in more detail from the most recent Advance Economic Indicators Report

This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.