Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : October 29, 1959

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 29, 1959.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

- Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Four weeks
Jan. 1
One week ending
ending
to
Oct. 241 Oct, 171 Oct. 101 Oct. 3
Oct. 24
Oct. 24

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+ 4
+ 8
+ 7
+11

+ 7
+ 6
- 2
+13

- 5
- 3
0
0

- 5
- 9
-12
- 5

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+13
+11
+12
+ 2

+ 9
r+ 8
+17
+11

-11
- 2
+ 5
+ 6

-10
- 6
+ 5
r-10

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
+

+22
+ 7
+ 5
r+ 6

+ 6
+15
+17
+ 2

+10

+ 3

U. S. Total

5
4
1
6.

+ 8

0
+ 1
- 2
+ 5

+
+
+
+

.

3
3
5
7

..0.
+ 2
+10
+ 2

>-,-4
+ 7
+ 9
+ 6

+ 6
0
- 6
+12

+
+
+
+

6
7
4
7

+ 6
+ 7
+ 7
+10

- 1

+ .5

+ 7

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 if
1959
Sept.
Oct,
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

26
145
143
3
10 ' 151
160
17
24
151

1958
Sept.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct,

27
4
11
18
25

136
145
147
146
140

1957
Sept.
Oct,
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

28
5
12
19
26

136
142
$

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.