Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : August 15, 1957

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

H»8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 15, 1957
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts)
Jan. 1
Four -weeks
One -week ending
to
ending
Aug.
10
Aug. 10
Aug. 10| Aug. 31 July 271 July 20
-10
+ 3
r- 3
r- 5

-Boston
Nevr York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

0
+ 8
0
+ 3

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+
+
+

r 0
2
+ 1
1
2 - r + 1
+ 1
1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
+

2
2
1
2

0
- 1
r+ U
r- 3

+ 3

"r 0

U, S. Total

0
+ 8
+ 6
+ 2
+
+
-

- k
+ 1
+ h
+ 3

+ 9

2
2
8
2

4 5
•+ 5
+ 5

•

+ l
0

+ 1
+ h
+ 2
-* 1

+
+
+
+

3
1
u
1

+ 'u
+ 2
+ 3
0
+ 3

- 3

+ 2

rf 9
+10
+11
+ 1

+ 5

+ 5
+ 5

h

+ 5

+ 3

r+11
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+ 5

+

+ 1
+ 3
+ 1

+ 3
+ 5

+ l

+ 2
t=

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19U7-ii9 100 1/
1957 ^
July
July
July
Aug.
j Aug.

13
10U
20
101
27
101
3 r 1CU
10
110

1956
July
July
July
Aug.
Aug.

1U
21
28
b
11

99
96
97
10U
107

1955
July
July
July
Aug.
Aug.

16
23
30
6
13

97
9k
98
97
100

r—Revised.
1 / For description and weekly indexes f o r t h e period January 1937 to March 1952 see
Federal Reserve Bulletin f o r April 1952, pp. 359-362. Indexes for the period April
1952 t o date may be obtained upon request from t h e Division of Research and S t a tistics.
'Weekly indexes a t the d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks#




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H.8b
WEEKLY DEPAEMNT STORE SALES - SELLCTED JETTIES' AND AREAS (Continued)
Percentage change f r o a corresponding
period la year ago
(Based on r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts)
Jan»Week ending
June
July 20] July 271, Aug. 3{ Aug. 10

Federal Reserve D i s t r i c t ,
Area, and City
Kansas City D i s t r i c t
Metropolitan Areas
Denver
Topeka
Wichita
St« Joseph
Albuquerque
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Cities
Joplin
Kansas City
Dallas D i s t r i c t
Metropolitan Areas
Dallas
El Paso
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
San Francisco D i s t r i c t
Metropolitan Areas
Los Angeles-Long Beach
Downtown Los Angeles
Westside Los Angeles
Sacramento
San Diego San Francisco-Oakland
San Francisco City
Oakland
Portland
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Spokane
Tacoma
r—Revised.




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+10

0
-3
+ 1
- 8
— 6
- -5
+ 2

+ 2
+1U
+22
-10
+ 2
+ 6
+ 3

Mo.

- u
- u

+ 3
+13

0

+11

Tex.

0
+ 3
+ 3
+ 9
1

+ 3
+16
+ 6
+20
+1U

+ 1

+ 1

+ 2
- 1
+ 2
+13
+ 2
; - 1
- 1
- 3
+ 1
+ 1
+ 2
- 1
- 2

- 1
- k
- 2
+28
- 5
+ 2
+ 1
+ 2
- 1
+ 6
0
- 9
+ 3

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Kans.
Mo.
N. Mex.
Okla.

Calif.

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8
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0
- 1
- 6
- 2
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+ 4
. +11