Wholesale Inventories Sink Q4 GDP Hope, Sales-Ratio Signals Looming Recession
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
12/09/2015
Q4 GDP expectations are off to a bad start as October wholesale inventories dropped 0.1% (missing expectations of a 0.2% rise and well down from the September surge of 0.5%). Wholesale inventories rose only 3.7% YoY, the lowest since Sept 2013 but sales have now been negative YoY since December. This leaves the crucial inventories-to-sales ratio at 1.31 – post-crisis highs, and deep in recession territory.
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