Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : July 16, 1959

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF TIC FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 16, 1959.

H.8a

WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change fror.i corresponding period a year n
District

One week ending
July ll!July 4 1 June 27!June 20

Four weeks
ending
July 11

Jan. 1
to
July 11

l

Boston
Mew York
Philadelphia
Cleveland -

+
+
+
+

2
2
6
9

+ 3
- 1
+15
+11

0
+ 1
+ 7
+ 7

+17
+14
+10
+21

+ 6
+ 4
+ 9
+12

+
+
+
+

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 1
+16
+11
+13

+17
r+ 7
+ 4
+14

+ 5
+ 6
+10
+ 8

+17
+16
+27
+18

+10
+11
+13
+13

+ 7
+ 8
+10
+ 9

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+ 2
+10
+14
+11

r- 1
- 2
+ 3
+10

+ 4
+ 8
+ 3
+12

+25
+26
+27
+29

+ 7
+11
+12
+16

+ 6
+ 9
+ 9
+11

+ 9

+ 7

+ 7

+22

+11

+ 9

U, S„ Total

5
4
8
8

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 l/
1959
June 13
June 20
• June 27
July 4
July 11

141
143
118
-109
.. 126

1958
June
June
June
July
July

14
21
28
5
12

138
117
110
102
116

1957
June
June
June
July
July

15
22
29
6
13

139
128
115
101
111

r—Revised.
l/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.