The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that October 2016 sales of merchant wholesalers were $452.2 billion, up 1.4 percent from the revised September level and were up 2.2 percent from the October 2015 level.

The August 2016 to September 2016 percent change was revised from the preliminary estimate of up 0.2 percent to up 0.4 percent. October sales of durable goods were up 1.1 percent from last month and were up 2.5 percent from a year ago.