Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : September 29, 1960

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29, I960.

H.8

WEEKLY /DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

^

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Sept. 24
Sept. 24
jSept. 241 Sept. 171Sept. 101 Sept. 3

District

1
2
6
2

+
-

2
2
3
2

+
+
+
+

- 1
-14
- 5
- 3

- 2
+ 3
6
- 3

-

2
5
3
5

- 2
0
+ 1
0

1
1
6
8

- 3
0
- 4
- 2

+
+

4
2
1
2

0
+ 2
- 4
- 3

+
-

- 5

- 2

- 1

- 2

+ 2

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+
+
+
+

9
9
4
2

-17
- 5
: - 6
- 4

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+
+
-

4
6
3
4

-

8
3
3
8

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
-

5
4
8
3

+
-

U . S . Total

+ 2

+
+
-

3
6
1
5

+
+
-

3
6
1
2

3
1
2
1

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 1/
I960
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

27
3
10
17
24

144
147
130
150
148

1959
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

29
5
12
19
26

139
148
133
158
145

1958
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

]0
6
13
20
27

149
123
145
136
136

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.