U.S. wholesale inventories fall more than expected

America's wholesalers slashed inventories for a seventh straight month in March as businesses struggled to get stockpiles in line with plunging sales.
MAY 08, 2009
By  Bloomberg
America's wholesalers slashed inventories for a seventh straight month in March as businesses struggled to get stockpiles in line with plunging sales. The Commerce Department says wholesale inventories dropped 1.6 percent in March, much larger than the 1 percent fall that analysts had expected. That followed a 1.7 percent drop in February, the largest monthly decline on records that go back 17 years. Wholesalers saw sales plunge 2.4 percent in March, the fifth decline in six months.

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