Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : July 9, 1959

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF TIIE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 9, 1959.

H.8a

MEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Federal Reserve
District
Boston
Mew York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
July 4
July 4
July 4|June 271 June 20 1 June 13
1
+ 4
0
+ 5
+17
3
i+ 3
+ 4
+ 1
+14
0
+ 3
- 1
+
+
8
+10
+10
8
+15
+ 7
+ 3
+ 8
+10
+11
+ 7 . +21

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St, Louis

+17
+10
+ 4
+14

+ 5
+ 6
+10
+ 8

+17
+16
+27
+18

1
8
+ 9
- 8

+ 9
+ 5
+12
+ 7

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

- 2
-,2
+ 3
+10

r+ 4
r+ 8
+ 3
+12

+25
r+26
+27
+29

+ 9
+ 3
0
+ 1

+ 9
+ 9
+ 8
+13

+ 6
+ 9
+ 8
+11

+ 7

+ 7

+2.2

+ 2

+ 9

+ 9

IL S. Total

- .

+ 7
+ 7
+10
+ 9

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

6
13
20
27
4

150
.141
143
118
109

June
June
June
June
July

7
14
21
28
5

195%
June
June
June
June
July

8
15
22
29
6

134
139
128
115
101

r—Revised.
if 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,"