Commercial petroleum inventories increased by 900, 000 barrels last week, meeting rising demand.
Net trade decreased 0.3% and inventories increased 0.7% as exports slowed.
Profit grew 18% for the global beverage giant, as inventories increased.
February business inventories increased 0.1%, short of the 0.5% expected.
Business inventories increased a seasonally adjusted 0.4 percent in December and were up 7.7 percent from a year earlier, compared with sales increases of 0.7 percent from November to December and 8.9 percent from a year earlier.
This is being attributed to factors including larger inventories, increased expenses around marketing (especially for the Olympics and European Football Championships), and investments in direct-to-consumer initiatives.
The company said increased inventories at networking companies in China contributed to the weak quarterly results.
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Management increased inventories in support of sales growth, new store openings, product introductions and higher product acquisition costs.
Real final sales GDP less changes in private inventories increased 1.1% in the fourth quarter, compared with a 2.4% gain in the prior period.
Talbots, the women's clothing brand with stores in the U.S. and Canada, reported heavy declines in store sales and increased inventories in its third quarter earnings on Tuesday.
But taking that model seriously demanded aggressively increased inventories and tight working relations with distributors, rather than dropping every CD that did not sell once in 6 months.
For example, in the third quarter of 2010, Bunge used money from the sale to keep inventories stocked as costs increased for commodities it needs to have on hand for milling and marketing.
This large increase may mean one of two things: the company has either been having trouble selling its inventories or it has significantly increased its production capacity as a result of higher demand.
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But the company managed to throw a wet blanket on the proceedings, warning of increased caution among customers and showing inventories that are up 9% from the previous quarter.
There currently appears to be sufficient supply of non-Iranian oil to permit foreign countries to significantly reduce their import of Iranian oil, taking into account current estimates of demand, increased production by countries other than Iran, inventories of crude oil and petroleum products, and available strategic petroleum reserves.
Inventories at the dealers in the first six months of the year increased 900, 000 units.
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