Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : July 30, 1959

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H.8a

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
^
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 1959.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
Four weeks
ending
July 25

One week ending
P

00

I
I

I

District

Jan. 1
to
July 25

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland.

-1
+ 4
+ 3
+ 7

+3
+7
r+ 2
r+ 5

+ 2
+3
+ 1 - 1
+ 6
+15
+9
+11

+
+
+
+

2
3
6
8

+
+
+
+

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 3
+3
+ 9
+ 1

r+ 3
+ 3
r+ 9
+5

+1
+15
+11
+13

+17
+ 7
+ 4
+14

+
+
+
+

6
7
8
8

+ 7
+ 7
+10
+ 9

+ 3
- 2
0
+ 8

r+7
+5
+ 6 ^
+15

+3
+10
+14
+11

-1
- 2
+ 3
+10

+ 3
+ 3
+ 6
+11

+ 6
+ 9
+ 9
+11

+9

+7

+ 7

+ 8

. Minneapolis
Kansas City
^Dallas
San Francisco
U. S. Total

+5

+7

5
4
7
8

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 l/
1959
June
July
July
July
July

27
4
11
18
25

118
109
126
118
117

1958
June
July
July
July
July

28
5
12
19
26

110
102
116
110
111

1957
June
July
July
July
July

29
6
13
20
27

115
101
HI
108
108

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.