Wholesale inventories rose 0.1% in August

• Prior -0.1%
• Sales -1.0% vs -0.3% exp m/m. Prior -0.3%
• Inventory to sales ratio 1.31 vs 1.30 prior

Durable inventories rose 0.3% following a 0.1% drop in July and that's something that needs watching. The other main build was in Computer equipment which was up 1.9%. That may be in part to the upcoming thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods, including the black Friday/cyber Monday sales days
The inventory sales ratio ticked up too and is something else that needs monitoring for signs of shelves not emptying...