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Table 2 Sales, inventories and orders in all manufacturing industries

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Sales, inventories and orders in all manufacturing industries
  Sales Inventories Unfilled orders New orders Inventory-to-sales ratio
  Seasonally adjusted
  $ millions % change $ millions % change $ millions % change $ millions % change  
November 2007 50,569 1.6 65,154 0.6 57,005 4.5 53,034 8.2 1.29
December 2007 48,535 -4.0 64,854 -0.5 58,530 2.7 50,060 -5.6 1.34
January 2008 48,999 1.0 65,220 0.6 58,857 0.6 49,326 -1.5 1.33
February 2008 50,211 2.5 64,679 -0.8 58,733 -0.2 50,088 1.5 1.29
March 2008 49,326 -1.8 65,026 0.5 61,753 5.1 52,346 4.5 1.32
April 2008 50,102 1.6 65,240 0.3 61,306 -0.7 49,655 -5.1 1.30
May 2008 51,509 2.8 66,389 1.8 62,866 2.5 53,069 6.9 1.29
June 2008 52,646 2.2 67,046 1.0 63,903 1.6 53,683 1.2 1.27
July 2008 53,998 2.6 67,243 0.3 64,564 1.0 54,660 1.8 1.25
August 2008 51,873 -3.9 67,682 0.7 66,493 3.0 53,802 -1.6 1.30
September 2008 51,819 -0.1 67,618 -0.1 66,145 -0.5 51,470 -4.3 1.30
October 2008 51,707 -0.2 68,749 1.7 70,702 6.9 56,264 9.3 1.33
November 2008 48,414 -6.4 68,330 -0.6 71,296 0.8 49,008 -12.9 1.41