(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Milano, 14 mag - In March, Canadian wholesale sales, excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain, rose 1.9% month on month to 89.0 billion local dollars, according to Statistics Canada.

Sales increased in five of the seven subsectors, representing 79.6% of total wholesale sales.

Wholesale sales were 3.3% higher in March than in the same month one year earlier.

In volume terms, wholesale sales increased 1.7% month on month in March.

Wholesale inventories rose 0.3% month on month to 137.2 billion dollars in March.

The inventory-to-sales ratio decreased from 1.57 in February to 1.54 in March. This ratio measures the number of months required to exhaust inventories if sales remain at their.

current levels.

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