Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : April 28, 1960

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 28, I960.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE-SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts) 2J
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Apr.
23
Apr. 23IApr. 16!Apr. 9 (Apr* 2
Apr. 23

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

- 1
+ 9
+ 1
+10

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago St. Louis

+
+
+

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U.S. Total

+28
r+18
r+19
+ 9

+21
+21
+20
+24

+21
+29
+41
+32

+17
+19
+19
+18

+
+
+
+

4
2
5
8

+29
r+26
+16
+11

+14
+18
+17
+21

+25
+20
+15
+25

+18
+15
+13
+16

- 2
+ 1
+ 3
0

+14
- 3
- 5
+ 1

r+17
+16
+22
+12

+18
+21
+13
+ 9

+15
+11
+12
+11

+16
+11
+10
+ 8

+
+
+

+ 4

+18

+18

+22

+15

+ 3

1

3
5
3
5

5
2
1
2

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 2/
I960
Mar. 26
Apr. 2
Apr. 9
Apr. 16
Apr. 23

131
143
153
156
146

1959
Mar. 28
Apr. 4
Apr. 11
Apr. 18
Apr. 25

141
117
130
132
141

1958 .
Mar. 29
Apr. 5
Apr. 12
Apr. 19
Apr. 26

122
134
110
125
136

r--Revised,
l/ During April changes from a year ago reflect in part the fact that last year
Easter was on March 29 while this year it was on April 17. For this reason it
is estimated that in comparison with last year an allowance should be made for
an increase in sales of about 8 per cent for the month of April as a whole.
Those figures apply to the figures for the United States.
2/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal R;-serve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.