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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THfc, FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 13, 1959.

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MONTHIJ DEPARTMENT STORE STOCKS
(Based on r e t a i l dollar amounts)

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FEBRUARY 1959

Department store stocks declined s l i g h t l y
February from the January l e v e l a f t e r allowance f o r
adjustment. The February index i s estimated at 150
of the 19h7-h9 average compared -with 152 i n January
i n February a year ago.

Federal Reserve
District

My

AHr

in A
seasonal ^GQ
per cent
and, 1U6

Index numbers
(Average end-of-month stocks 19U7-li9=100)
Seasonally adjusted
Unadjustec
1959
1956
1959
1958
Feb.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Jan.
Feb,

Percentage
change Feb.
1959 j?rom7C
Month Year
ago
ago

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

P139
P139
153
pl28

137
rliil
rl55
139

13U
135
151
130

P131
P130
Ht7
P123

12 li
126
137
123

126
127
1U5
125

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

P172
P199
plUO
P138

177
200
1UU

rl67
199
135
1U2

P165
P197
P131
P13U

158
182
129
128

rl60
197
127
138

- 3
0
- 1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

plkl

pl60
pl66
pl58

rl36
159
168
160

138
rl50
163
151

P135
P15U
pl61
P1U9

rl26
1U3
1U8

+ h

Ihh

132
rlitU
158
1U2

+ l
- l
- 1

+
+
+
+

pl50

152

116

P1U3

136

139

- l

+ 3

United S t a t e s

IkL

+
1 -

-

1
2
1
8

h

+
+
+
-

k

3
2
1

+ 3
0
+ U
- 3
2
7
2
5

Note:—Indexes are based on value of stocks at end of month. For description and
monthly indexes f o r the period January 19U7 t o October 1957 see Federal Reserve
Bulletin f o r December 1957> pp. 1323-1352. Indexes p r i o r to 19 U7 may be obtained from the Division of Research and S t a t i s t i c s . Indexes f o r the most recent
thirteen-month period are shown regularly in the B u l l e t i n .