Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : June 27, 1957

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H.8a

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 1957
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year age
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. .1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
June 22
June 22
June 22 | June -15 I June ti | June 1

Boston
Mew York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

- 1
+ 9
+20
+ 7

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+19
+11
+10
+ 6

0
+ 8
r- 5
- 3

0
0

+ 7

- 2
+ 3
+16
r- 1

+ 9

- 2

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

+5

-

- 1

- 9
- 2
- h

3
1
3
8

~

+
+
r

3

3
7
2
2

+ k
- k

+ k
b
- 2
- 9

+ h
+ 7
0
- 1

±h

-5

- 2
+ 2

+

0

+
+
+
-

k
2
k
3

+
+
-

+5

1
k
2
1

+ 3
0

+ 6
+ 6

0
0
+ 3

+ 3

+ 2
0
+ 2
+ 1

+ 1

+ 1

+ 2

+ 2

+5

U. S. -weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19^7-1^9=100 1/
1957
May 25
June 1
June 8
June 15
June 22

116

110
125

129
119

1956
May 26
June 2
June 9
June 16
June 23

117
109
12U
131
109

1955
May
June
June
June
June

28
U
11
18
25

11U
102

11U

117
103

r—Revised.
^—Data not available.
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1952 see
Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1952, pp. 359-362. Indexes for the period April
195iKto date may be obtained upon request from the Division of Research and Statistics .
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Bankso