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RESERVE

FEDERAL

September 12. 196]

G.7.4.2
MONTHLY DEPARTMENT STORE STOCKS
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
July 1963

Department store inventories advanced to a new high in
July, The seasonally adjusted index for the month is estimated
at 123 per cent of the 1957-59 average compared with 121 in June
and 119 in July 1962,

Federal Reserve
District

Index numbers
(Average end-of-month stocks 1957-59=100)
Unadjusted
Seasonally adjusted
1?62_
1963
I 1962
1963
July
July 1 June
July | June 1 July

Percentage
change July
1963 from*
Month I Year
ago
1...„ago„

118
118
rl09
119

118
rll4
113
117

111
107
103
119

112
111
rl03
121

108
102
103
112

+
+
+
+

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

pll9
129
126
122

118
127
126
122

119
rll9
122
117

pill
118
123
117

111
118
122
115

112
110
119
112

+ 1
+ 1
0
0

+
+
+

1
8
3
4

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

117
pl22
pl21
P 13l

rll5
118
118
129

113
115
rll3
rl26

113
pll6
pll6
pl27

rl07
113
111
125

rl09
rl09
109
rl22

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

4
5
6
4

pl23

121

119

pH7

116

112

United States

3
1
4
4

+ 3
+ 4
0
+ 7

121
119
114
125

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

2
3
2
2

+ 2
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R z-Nir-i

+ 4

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Note;--Indexes are based on value of stocks at end of monthc For description of
the series see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July 1962, pp. 803-808. Back data
may be obtained from the Division of Administrative Services. Indexes for the most
recent thirteen-month period are shown regularly in the Bulletin.




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