Wholesale Inventories: Release Dates, Results & History
Wholesale Inventories last printed 1.3 on Thu, Aug 27, 2026 against a 0.1 consensus forecast and a 0.2 prior, a +4 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
Inventories are the swing factor in GDP arithmetic: the change in wholesale stocks feeds the investment line, and a surprise here can move quarterly trackers by tenths. The inventories-to-sales ratio in the same report is the classic gauge of whether stockrooms are bloating into a slowdown or running lean ahead of restocking. The advance vintage lands alongside the early goods-trade data and is the one trackers react to.
The trend, at a glance
How it moves Treasuries
Rates impact is indirect: a build lifts the current quarter's GDP tracking but borrows from the next, so the headline gets faded. It matters when a big surprise shifts GDPNow. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +4.00 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | -0.33 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +0.33 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.3% | -0.67 | BELOW FORECAST |
The 4 most recent prints from the desk's live capture (began July 2026), a sample. Every row links the print page published the moment the number landed; the full graded history is served by the API.
Official series history
| PERIOD | VALUE (% M/M) | PRIOR |
|---|---|---|
| +0.17% | +0.26% | |
| +0.26% | +0.65% | |
| +0.65% | +1.54% | |
| +1.54% | +0.94% | |
| +0.94% | -0.27% | |
| -0.27% | -0.15% | |
| -0.15% | +0.24% | |
| +0.24% | +0.21% |
The most recent official rows; the chart above draws the longer series. Desk-captured prints above include the consensus forecast and standard-deviation surprise the moment each number landed.
Monthly, two vintages: advance ~end of month, final ~two weeks later · 8:30 AM ET advance; 10:00 AM ET final · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.