Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : August 21, 1958

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OB THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 21, 1958.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

.Percentage change frcm corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Aug. 16
Aug. 16
Aug. 16 Aug. 9 | Aug. 2 I July 26

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

0
+ U
- 2

h

+
r
+
-

1
0
3
2

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ k
+ 1
- 3
+ 1

+
r+
+

3
9
5
2

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
+

+
+
+

5
7
3
3

+

2
5
l
2

+ 2

v U. S. Total

""

r+ 2 v

+15
+ k
+ 8
- 2

. + 7
+ 3
+ 5
- 2

+
+
+
-

6
1
5
2

- 2
+ 1
- 1
- h

+ 6
+11
- 2
+ 5

+ 7
+ 6
+ 3

+
+
+

5
6
3
3

- 2
- 1
- 5
-3

- 1
+ l
- h
+ l

- 6
+10
+11
+ 3

+
+
+

3
6
2
2

+
-

+ 3

+ 3

+ 2

-

k

2
1
2
1

- 1

" U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19U7-U9 = 100^/
1958
July
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

19
26
2
9
16

110
111
llU
rl20
121*

1

1957
July
July
Aug .
Aug .
Aug,.

20
27
3
10
17

108
108
111
118
122

1956
July
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

21
28

k

11
18

105
105
113
117
121

r—Revised.
J
,
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958 see
Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. i|12-U21.
Yfeekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve^Banks.




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