Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : June 18, 1959

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H.8a

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 1959.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
June 131 June 61May 30 !
May 23
June 13
June 13

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

0
+ 8
+ 3

r+ 5
+10
+17
r+14

+11
+ 4

+ 5

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+
-

+ 8
r+ 3
+14
+ 8 .

+
+
+
+

1
2
8
6

+ 6
+12
+ 4

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+ 9
+ 2
0
+ 1

+16
+—£r
+ 6
r+12

+
+
+

1^
2
1
3

+ 3

+11

U. S. Total

- 3

1
7
9
8

+ 4

+" 5

+ 5

+ 3

+ 6
+10

+ 5

+ 6
+10
+ 8

+ 4
+ 7
+ 7

+ 5

+ 3
+ 1
+11
+ 2

+
+
+
+

+ 6
+ 8
+ 8

+ 3

+
+
+
+

8
3
3
6

+ 9
+ 8
+10

+ 9

+ 7

+ 8

+12

7
6
9
8

+ 5

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 if
1959
May 16
137
May 23
139
May 30
122
June 6
I50
June 13
142
r—Revised.
if For description and
see Federal Reserve
Weekly indexes at
the Federal Reserve

1958
May 17
May 24
May 31
June 7
June 14

126
128
116
135
138

1957
May 18
May 25
June 1
June 8
June 15

129.
124
117
134
139

weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
the district and city levels are published by several of
Banks.