Full text of G.17.2 Retail Instalment Credit at Furniture and Household Appliance Stores : April 4, 1947

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LffiRM OF THE FEDERAL
RESERVE E H OF CIEVEUWO

BOARD OF GOVERNORS; OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE- SYSTEM
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at-.Furniture, H&usehol^A^^itoce^and Jewelry stores
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decreased by about the. customary amount in February.

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counts receivable were nearly three-fourths larger than a year earlier,
While those.at furniture Store, showed * 27 per cent-rise. Household appliance store acc.unts receivable i n c r e a s i n g l y in February and
at the• end of the month vierb • approximately double theamount outstandingon the corresponding date last year. --

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jewelry and furniture* store collection ratios on instalment
accounts declined one point in February/to 2 5 per cent and 22 P - cent
month
respectively. At household appliance ?tores .co^ctidhs duri»g the m ,
were U2 per cent of instalment accounts outstanding on February 1, as
compared with U7 per'cent in the three preceding months.




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'4ccounts outstanding at end of month
December 31. 1939 - 100 ..
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