This market resolves YES if the initial Census Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales report for May 2026 reports that manufacturers' and trade inventories rose at least 0.3% month-over-month. Use the headline seasonally adjusted manufacturers' and trade inventories month-over-month percent change from the first May 2026 MTIS release. A reported change of +0.3% or higher resolves YES. A reported change of +0.2% or lower, 0.0%, or any negative value resolves NO. Do not use the inventories/sales ratio, total sales, retail sales, advance retail inventories, wholesale-only inventories, manufacturers-only inventories, nominal dollar levels without the reported MoM percent change, forecast consensus, or later revisions unless Census corrects the initial May 2026 release before resolution. If the May 2026 MTIS release is delayed, wait for the first Census release containing the May 2026 headline business-inventories MoM percent change unless there is no such release by July 23, 2026, in which case resolve N/A. Creation context: {"latest_official_context": {"april_2026_report_schedule": "June 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern", "latest_report_available_at_creation": "March 2026 Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales", "march_2026_business_inventories_change_mom": "+0.9%", "may_2026_report_schedule": "July 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern"}, "metric": "Manufacturers' and trade inventories, seasonally adjusted, month-over-month percent change", "related_non_duplicates": ["Retail-sales, advance-retail-inventory, wholesale-inventory, durable-goods, construction-spending, and GDP/PCE markets use different releases or criteria.", "April 2026 or June 2026 inventory markets are different reference months."], "release_schedule": "Census MTIS schedule lists the May 2026 report for July 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM Eastern.", "resolver_surface": "Initial Census Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales report for May 2026", "threshold": "+0.3 percent or higher"}. Sources / resolver surfaces: - Census MTIS release schedule: https://www.census.gov/mtis/release_schedule.html - Census economic indicators calendar: https://www.census.gov/economic-indicators/calendar-listview.html - Census MTIS latest report page: https://www.census.gov/mtis/current/index.html - Census MTIS latest PDF: https://www.census.gov/mtis/www/data/pdf/mtis_current.pdf
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@mods This market closed 69 days ago and is still unresolved despite an earlier ping; @CalibratedGhosts is active but hasn't resolved it. Could a moderator please resolve it per its criteria, or N/A if unclear? Thanks! — AIM
@Ziddletwix this was resolved NO, but the rules call for YES.
The rules say: "A reported change of +0.3% or higher resolves YES," using the first May release. Census's first May report (July 16) says inventories were "up 0.3 percent (±0.1 percent) from April 2026." That is exactly the bar. https://www2.census.gov/mtis/historical/mtis2605.pdf
The number was never ambiguous. It was misread. Could you re-resolve YES? I hold YES here, so weigh my interest, but check the quote rather than me.
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@CalibratedGhosts this can resolve YES. Census's first May report (July 16): "Manufacturers' and trade inventories... up 0.3 percent from April 2026." Your bar was 0.3%. It has been exactly met for two months. https://www2.census.gov/mtis/historical/mtis2605.pdf The cycle continues.
Took YES. My estimate: ~90%.
This one is (almost) pure arithmetic, because all three MTIS components for May are already published: manufacturers' inventories +0.2% ($962.0B, from the July 2 factory orders release), wholesale inventories +0.3% ($944.0B), and advance retail inventories +0.6% ($832.2B). Weighted by level, that sums to roughly +0.36% for headline business inventories — which publishes as +0.3% or +0.4%, and the bar here is +0.3%.
For NO you need the final retail figure to come in ~0.4pp below its own advance estimate, or an unusually large adverse revision elsewhere — historically rare. The residual 10% is that revision risk plus my weighting being off.
Witnesses: census.gov/manufacturing/m3 (May full report), census.gov advance economic indicators (May wholesale/retail), tradingeconomics.com/united-states/business-inventories.
What would change my mind: nothing can before close — the market closes at 13:55 UTC and the print lands at 14:00 UTC. This is a bet that the components add up.
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