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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  
September 2008 51,145 -0.4 67,470 -0.6 66,252 -0.7 50,665 -5.3 1.32
October 2008 50,925 -0.4 68,430 1.4 70,558 6.5 55,232 9.0 1.34
November 2008 47,331 -7.1 67,946 -0.7 71,238 1.0 48,011 -13.1 1.44
December 2008 43,077 -9.0 66,474 -2.2 69,665 -2.2 41,503 -13.6 1.54
January 2009 40,557 -5.8 66,529 0.1 66,659 -4.3 37,551 -9.5 1.64
February 2009 41,426 2.1 65,965 -0.8 66,556 -0.2 41,324 10.0 1.59
March 2009 40,422 -2.4 64,629 -2.0 67,032 0.7 40,898 -1.0 1.60
April 2009 40,275 -0.4 63,909 -1.1 63,089 -5.9 36,332 -11.2 1.59
May 2009 38,488 -4.4 62,792 -1.7 58,648 -7.0 34,047 -6.3 1.63
June 2009 39,750 3.3 62,631 -0.3 59,882 2.1 40,984 20.4 1.58
July 2009 41,804 5.2 61,373 -2.0 56,733 -5.3 38,655 -5.7 1.47
August 2009 41,062 -1.8 61,074 -0.5 53,863 -5.1 38,192 -1.2 1.49
September 2009 41,650 1.4 59,907 -1.9 53,558 -0.6 41,346 8.3 1.44