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October 15, 2024WHOLESALE TRADE, AUGUST 2024 Monthly (seasonally adjusted, August 2024 vs July 2024)
Nova Scotia wholesale trade increased 0.3% to $1.32 billion. National wholesale trade declined 1.8% to $116.6 billion. Five provinces reported gains led by Manitoba. Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador reported the largest declines.
Year-over-year (seasonally adjusted, August 2024 vs August 2023)
Nova Scotia wholesale trade increased 6.4%. Canada's wholesale trade declined 9.0%. Seven0 provinces reported lower year-over-year wholesale trade with Alberta and Saskatchewan reporting the steepest declines. Nova Scotia reported the fastest year-over-year rise in wholesale trade.
Year-to-date (January-August 2024 vs January-August 2023)
Nova Scotia wholesale trade increased 10.5% in the first eight months of 2024 compared to the same period of 2023. Canada's wholesale trade increased 6.5%. Seven provinces reported year-to-date increases in wholesale trade. Alberta reported the largest gains. Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island and Ontario reported year-to-date declines.
TRENDS
In 2024, volatility in Nova Scotia's wholesale trade has smoothed out to a rising trend. Canada reported a very large increase as the data series was changed to include petroleum products, but has tracked down in recent months.
After the break in the data series with the inclusion of petroleum products in March 2023, wholesale inventories trended down. In recent months, wholesale inventories as a share of sales have been volatile around a stable trend, with a value of 1.19 in August 2024.
Note: Starting with the March 2023 reference month, petroleum products data are available within Statistics Canada's data on wholesale trade. This distorts year-to-date comparisons as well as the national inventory to sales ratio. The effect causes data for oil-producing regions to increase more rapidly than in other provinces.
Due to suppression of data in food and beverage wholesalers for Nova Scotia (the largest category), year-to-date results by category will not be available.
Source: Statistics Canada. Table 20-10-0074-01 Wholesale trade, sales (x 1,000); Table 20-10-0076-01 Wholesale trade, inventories (x 1,000)
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