US businesses boosted stockpiles by slight 0.1 percent in June as sales plunged 1.1 percent By Washington Examiner August 14, 2012 2:01 pm FacebookTwitterEmailPrint Add Washington Examiner on Google FacebookTwitterEmailPrint WASHINGTON (AP) — US businesses boosted stockpiles by slight 0.1 percent in June as sales plunged 1.1 percent. Related Content State Byron York says the progressive wing is the most powerful group in the Democratic Party State Anti-Israel socialist candidates try to ride Mamdani’s wave to political office In Focus DOJ probe into Black Lives Matter finances deepens as group cuts ties with top board member White House Biden slams Trump for ‘taking a wrecking ball’ to democracy: ‘I’m angry’ Finance First round of November Social Security payments goes out in four days