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As David Rosenberg<\/a> pointed out this week, the inventory drawdown is definitely over. Analysts had been looking for a continued inventory contraction in October, but instead they grew.<\/p>\n As noted below, there is a good angle (the restocking is good for factories) and a bad angle, as it could mean an end to selling.<\/p>\n It may take a few months before we know how this plays out.<\/p>\n ———<\/p>\n By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer<\/p>\n WASHINGTON (AP) — Businesses unexpectedly increased their inventories in October, halting a slide of 13 consecutive declines. The small gain raised hopes that businesses will begin restocking their depleted shelves, helping support the economic recovery.<\/p>\n The Commerce Department says businesses increased inventories 0.2 percent in October. That was better than the 0.3 percent drop economists had expected.<\/p>\n Total business sales rose 1.1 percent, the fifth straight gain.<\/p>\n The hope is that steadily rising sales will encourage businesses to restock shelves, which will boost factory production and bolster a broad recovery.<\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n As David Rosenberg pointed out this week, the inventory drawdown is definitely over. Analysts had been looking for a continued inventory contraction in October, but instead they grew. As noted below, there is a good angle (the restocking is good for factories) and a bad angle, as it could mean an end to selling. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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