Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : November 19, 1959

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H.8a

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 1959.
' JEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago

Federal Reserve
One week ending

District

Nov. 141 Nov. 7lOct. 311 Oct. 24
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

0
+ 6
+10
+ 6

+ 3
+ 2
-11
+ 6

+ 7
+ 6
0
9

+ 4
+ 8
+ 7
+10

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 1
+12
+ 9
+ 7

- 5
+ 7
+ 7
r+17

+10
+13
+ 7
r+ 2

+13
+10
+12
r+ 4

- 7
•+ 3
+ 6
+ 2

- 1
+ 3
+11
r+10

+ 6

+ 5

Minneapolis
Kanjas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U . S . Total

+
+
+

8
1
1
6

+ 7

+
+
+

5
4
1
2

+ 7

Four weeks
ending
Nov. 14
+
+
+
+

Jan. 1
to
Nov. 14

4
6
1
8

+
+
+
+

3
3
4
7

+ 4
+10
+ 8
+ 7

+
+
+
+

4
7
9
7

+
+
+

1
2
5
5

+ 5
+ 7
+ 7
+10

+ 6

+ 7

U . S . weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 1/
1932
Oct. 1?
Oct. 24
Oct. 31
' Nov. 7
Nov. 14

160
150
145

167

Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Nov. 8
Nov. 15

1957
Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.

19
26
2
9
16

138

136

130
145
152,

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.