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Wholesale Sales YoY Worst Since Lehman As Inventories Grow At Slowest Pace In 2 Years

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For the first time since July 2008, Wholesale Sales fell for the 4th month in a row in March (-0.2% vs +0.5% expectation). On a YoY basis, this is the worst sales drop since November 2008. Perhaps even more problematic is the weakness in inventories - which will drag Q1 GDP even lower - as the last time we saw a weaker inventory growth (+0.1% in March) was May 2013.

Wholesale Sales are a disaster...

 

and Inventories miss suggests Q1 GDP downgrades further into negative territory...

 

Wholesale Inventories to Sales remain at Lehman (and 2000) highs...

 

Charts: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:10 | 6072712 Dr. Engali
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Well it did almost snow in March.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:42 | 6072808 ParkAveFlasher
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BTFWSL, bitchez!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:51 | 6072846 Hype Alert
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But wait, Heard On The Street said the odds still favor the FED raising rates this year.  Broken, just broken.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 12:24 | 6073173 KnuckleDragger-X
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Yep, and I hear they have blizzards in hell forecasted for August.......

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 13:57 | 6073481 BeerMe
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0.25% isn't really a rise.  At this point it probably will be more like 0.025%

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:11 | 6072715 madbraz
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this all being done to flush the dirt under the negative Q1 GDP quarter and avoid a Q2 negative GDP print - par for the course for these shysters 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:17 | 6072733 SheepDog-One
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Well if they can do all that for Q1 now then why didn't they just do that to begin with? Just all horseshit, and no one cares. Kim Kardashians booty is bigger.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:11 | 6072716 TeamDepends
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So buy stawks!!! Woop woop woop! They're coming to take me away ho ho hee hee ha ha....

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:23 | 6072719 khakuda
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And market party rages on, realizing, no interest rate increases coming ever.  Always another excuse not to.  We get it.  They will never raise rates by any significant amount.  Let the bubbles build!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:14 | 6072726 SheepDog-One
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Reality is no longer a factor....DOW +500 close whoopdeedoo amen and pass the Tylenol.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:17 | 6072732 A is A
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You know the economy an utter and complete farce when you read another "worse since Lehman" headline and just go "meh, what's new?"

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:21 | 6072744 Dr. Engali
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Old Yeller did a good job sucking in the shorts so she could ram a QE hot poker up their ass with her "equity valuations are quite high comment".

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:37 | 6072794 Frank N. Beans
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"Equity valuations are quite high-er. The worst since Lehman."

 

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 11:05 | 6072887 khakuda
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Hahaha.  What a great image to get in the mind before the weekend.  Innocent looking little granny out of a horror flick.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:25 | 6072746 blown income
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Went to Home Depot yesterday....in the past if you looked up you would see a bunch of inventory that only the forklift could reach...those top shelves are empty..

 

guess I forgot my rosy glasses

 

$5 off all time highs

 

 

Talked to a employee thats been there a long time ...said they only hire part time now...he's been there 18 years full time

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:30 | 6072770 Seek_Truth
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Couldn't pay me to visit a Homo Despot.

Hope they dry up and blow away.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:25 | 6072760 wmbz
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It is blast off time, the continued good news just keeps right on coming! It's almost unbelievable! Or is that to good to be true?

Go Team Yellen!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:30 | 6072769 firstdivision
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Hey, I did my part, I paid a couple of hookers last night.  Oh you said 'Wholesale sales' are down, nevermind.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 10:46 | 6072821 Colonel Klink
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Dear CONgress, Fraud street, Inferior court, and our corrupt narcissist golfer in chief,

Fuck the whole shit show until it all come crumbling down on your heads.  More people are waking up ever day and fighting the system.

A hearty FUCK YOU!

-signed every US citizen who cares

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 11:18 | 6072942 Soul Glow
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It's not just this admin but the preceeding ones.  The corruption is long in the tooth.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 13:53 | 6073466 Colonel Klink
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Agreed.

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 11:16 | 6072932 Soul Glow
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Bullish!

Fri, 05/08/2015 - 20:45 | 6074694 Hope Copy
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2009.. oh F&@k, my 401k tanked, better get it back up... 2015, there is to much junk in the house...  : the 1%ers

 

in 2009 the hock shops where booming, now they are barren.. stuff is too cheap in retail, cheaper to buy it than steal it.

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