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| 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 |