A report released by the Commerce Department on Thursday showed a slight decrease in U.S. wholesale inventories in the month of April.
The Commerce Department said wholesale inventories edged down by 0.1 percent in April after dipping by a revised 0.2 percent in March.
Economists had expected wholesale inventories to slip by 0.2 percent compared to the unchanged reading originally reported for the previous month.
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