Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : August 28, 1958

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 26, 1958.

H.8a
V/EEKLY .DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

F e d e r a l Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding p e r i o d 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
ending
to
Aug. 23
Aug . 23 | Aug, 16 1 Aug. 9 I Aug. 2
Aug. 23

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+ 7
+ 3
+ 9
- 1

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+
+
-

+

Minneapolis
Kansas C i t y
Dallas
San Francisco

+

U. S . Total

+

111
11U
120
12b
13U

+ 1
0
+ 3
- 2

+15
+ b
+ 8
- 2

+

+

7
+ 2
+ 6
- 3

- 1
+ 1
- 1
- h

3
6
- 3
+ h

-

2
1
5
3

+
-

2
1
2
1

2
6
1
6

h
1
r- 2
1

+
+
+

3
9
5
2

+ 6
+11
- 2
+ 5

0
8

2
6
1
+ 2

+
+
+

5
7
3
3

- 1
+ 1
- k
+ 1

2
6
1
+ 3

+ 2

+ 3

+

\

h

3

U. S . weekly
1958
J u l y 26
Aug. 2
Aug. 9
Aug. 16
Aug. 23 '

+ h
0
+ h
- 2
+

-

+

2

+
•

+

-

2

- 1

i n d e x , without s e a s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t , 19hl-h9
1957
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

27
3
10
17
2h

108
111
118
122
130

1956
July
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.

28
h
11
18
25

y
= 100- /
105
113
117
121
130

r—Revised.
1 / For d e s c r i p t i o n and weekly indexes f o r t h e p e r i o d January 1937 t o March 1958 see
Federal Reserve B u l l e t i n f o r A p r i l 1958, p p . U12-U21.
Weekly indexes a t the d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s a r e p u b l i s h e d by s e v e r a l of t h e
F e d e r a l Reserve Banks.