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.
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.
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,
or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
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.
Official series history
PERIOD
VALUE (% M/M)
PRIOR
+1.29%
+0.38%
+0.38%
+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%
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), 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.
