Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : June 22, 1961

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H.I

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
*
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 1961,
I WEEKLY/DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
Federal Reserve
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks I
One week ending
District
ending
to
June 171 June 10!June 31 May 27
June
17
1
June 17
1
+ 8
Boston
+ 9
+ 4
+ 5
+ 5
+ 7
+ 8
+ 8
New York
+ 1
+ 4
+ 2
- 1
Philadelphia
+11
+ 2
+
2
- 2
- 1
- 3
+ 8
+ 1
Cleveland .
+
1
- 2
- 2
- 3
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+11
+ 5
+ 8
+ 4

+
r+
+
+

7
5
1
6

+ 3
r 0
0
+ 3

+
-

1
6
3
3

+
+
+
+

5
1
2
2

+ 1
0
- 1
- 1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
+

r+
+
+

6
6
3
7

+ 5
+ 2
-5
0

+
-

1
2
4
4

+
+
+

4
3
4
2

+ 1
+ 5
- 1
0

+ 5

+ 1

- 1

U. S. Total

5
7
4
5

+ 7

+ 3

'

v

+1

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal"adjustment. 1947-49=100 1/
1961
May 20
May 2?
June 3
June 10
June 17

146
137
132
151
158

I960
May 21
May 28
June 4
June 11
June 18

138
139
131
144
147

1252
May 23
May 30
June 6
June 13
June 20

139
122
150
141
143

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.