--- title: "Wholesale Inventories: 0.5% m/m (Oct 8, 2026), next Oct 28" description: Wholesale Inventories printed 0.5% m/m on Oct 8, 2026 against a 0.7 consensus and a 0.7 prior, a -0.67 standard-deviation surprise. Live release history. source: Helious canonical: "https://helious.io/data/wholesale-inventories" --- # Wholesale Inventories: release dates, results and history Wholesale Inventories last printed 0.5 on Thu, Oct 8, 2026 against a 0.7 consensus forecast and a 0.7 prior, a -0.67 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed. GDP counts the change in inventories, so whatever wholesalers add to or pull out of their stockrooms lands in the investment line. A big enough surprise moves the quarterly GDP trackers by tenths. The same release carries the inventories-to-sales ratio. Stock piling up faster than it sells is the classic sign of a slowdown building, and a lean ratio means the restocking has not happened yet. Watch the advance vintage rather than the final one. It arrives with the early goods-trade data, and that is the one the trackers react to. NEXT RELEASE Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET Next release **--:--** LATEST PRINT: THU, OCT 8, 2026 0.5actual 0.7forecast 0.7prior -0.67std dev vs forecastSLIGHT MISS [Full print analysis →](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-0006a5b6765e1aa7/wholesale-inventories-0-5) Surprise vs forecast −0.67 std dev SLIGHT MISS -2-10+1+2 Printed below forecast. That gap is 0.67 times the size of a normal gap for this indicator. ## The trend OFFICIAL SERIES · LAST 36 OBSERVATIONS · % M/M +1.54%0-0.77% 2023-082026-07 The official published series at its current vintage, revisions included, so the newest point can differ from the number as first printed. The release-by-release history, with the consensus forecast and standard-deviation surprise on every row, comes through the [Helious API](https://helious.io/developers/). ## How it moves Treasuries Treasuries barely notice this one on its own. A build lifts the current quarter's GDP tracking by borrowing from the next quarter, which is why traders fade the headline. It only starts to matter when the surprise is big enough to shift GDPNow. See it scored live on the [Helious desk](https://helious.io/), or read [how the standard-deviation surprise is computed](https://helious.io/methodology). ## Recent prints, as captured by the desk DATEACTUALFORECASTPRIORSURPRISE (SD)PRINT Thu, Oct 8, 2026Oct 8 ’26 0.5 0.7 0.7 -0.67 [BELOW FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-0006a5b6765e1aa7/wholesale-inventories-0-5) Wed, Sep 30, 2026Sep 30 ’26 0.7 1.1 1.3 -1.33 [BELOW FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-ca1468feb2695f55/wholesale-inventories-0-7) Thu, Sep 10, 2026Sep 10 ’26 1.3 1.3 1.3 0.00 [ON THE SCREWS](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-fed9b39ff5b74824/wholesale-inventories-1-3) Thu, Aug 27, 2026Aug 27 ’26 1.3 0.1 0.2 +4.00 [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-fbd3c7f06c1acd41/wholesale-inventories-1-3) Thu, Aug 6, 2026Aug 6 ’26 0.2 0.3 0.3 -0.33 [BELOW FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-549a6ab2b981cdbc/wholesale-inventories-0-2) Tue, Jul 28, 2026Jul 28 ’26 0.3 0.2 0.1 +0.33 [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-ee58d6412905c23f/wholesale-inventories-0-3) The 6 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the [API](https://helious.io/developers/). ## Official series history PERIODVALUE (% M/M)PRIOR 2026-07-01 +1.29% +0.38% 2026-06-01 +0.38% +0.26% 2026-05-01 +0.26% +0.65% 2026-04-01 +0.65% +1.54% 2026-03-01 +1.54% +0.94% 2026-02-01 +0.94% -0.27% 2026-01-01 -0.27% -0.15% 2025-12-01 -0.15% +0.24% These are the most recent official rows, and the chart above draws the longer series behind them. The desk-captured prints higher up the page carry the consensus forecast and the standard-deviation surprise as they stood the moment each number landed. ## FAQ ### What was the latest Wholesale Inventories print? Wholesale Inventories last printed 0.5 on Thu, Oct 8, 2026 against a 0.7 consensus forecast and a 0.7 prior, a -0.67 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed. ### When is the next Wholesale Inventories release? The next Wholesale Inventories release is Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 8:30 AM ET. Helious posts the print, the surprise against consensus and a verdict the second it lands. ### Was the latest Wholesale Inventories print a beat or a miss? It printed below the consensus forecast: 0.5 against 0.7, a -0.67 standard-deviation surprise. The standard deviation is measured against this indicator's own history of consensus misses, so the same gap means more on a series that rarely surprises. 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)](https://helious.io/data/wholesale-inventories.csv), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the [Helious API](https://helious.io/developers/) and MCP at [api.helious.io/mcp](https://api.helious.io/mcp), with depth set by plan. 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