Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : August 10, 1961

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August 10, 1961.

l\TE5KLYfD5PARTI4£NT STORE SALES
Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
One week ending
Aug. 51 July 291 July 221 July 15

Four weeks
ending
August 5

Jan. 1
to
Aug. 5

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+8
+ 2
+ 9
0

+ 8 + 5 + 1 0
+7
+1
+5
+6
+1
+3
r 0
+1
'-2

+ 8
+ 4
+ 5
0

+ 5
+ 2
0
- 1

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 8
+ 8
+ 2
0

+4
+4
0—r- 1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U.S. Total

+2
+3
- 1
- 2

+2
+1
+2
0

+
+
+
-

4
4
1
1

+ 1
0
- 1
- 1

+ . 4 - 6
+ 3
+1
+ 1
- 3
r 0
-1

0
-1
- 2
+6

0
+1
+1
+9

+
+

1
1
1
3

+
+
+

+ 3

+2

+3

+ 3

+ 2

1
4
1
1

+ 1

U. S. weekly index. without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 l/
1961
July
July
July
July
Aug.

8.
15
22
29
5

114
123
122
125
132

I960
July
July
July
July
Aug.

9
16
23
30
6

108
119
120
122
128

1959
July
July
July
Aug,.
Aug,.

11
18
25
1
8

126
118
117
121
131

r—Revised.
if For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 4-12-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.