Alt indicators at current prices, including changesininventories and consumption of fixed capital, are valued at average prices of the accounting period.
The net change in the GDP estimate from the first to the second estimate of the third quarter reflects changesin several variables in addition to inventories.
Changesin vacancies and inventories are strongly correlated: for example, San Jose, Bakersfield and Seattle all had large vacancy declines and large inventory declines year over year (using NAR inventory data).
Typically, the week-to-week changesin crude oil and gasoline inventories are reported, generally also with change in distillate inventories and sometimes with the refinery utilization rate.