Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : December 1, 1960

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 1, I960.

^Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Nov. 261 Nov. 191 Nov.
Nov. 26
Nov. 26
.

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+ 4
0

- 4
+ 3

0

- 4
- 6
- 9

- 7

- 4

- 3

r- 9
r- 5

- 3

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis .

- 2

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

!

- 3

- 7
- 9

- 3

r- 1
- 6
-15
r- 5

it

U . S . Total

- 7
- 1
- 1
- 6

-B
- 1

- 9
-10

- 9
+ 5

- 3
- 5
- 7
- 1

- 6
- 3

+11
- 7
- 5

- 2

- 4

- 2

- 1
- 2

+ 2
+ 5

- 5
- 5

0
+ 1

- 6
- 3

- 2

- 5
0
- 1
-10
- 4

0
0
- 1

+ 2
0

- 3

- 1
+ 1

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 l/
I960
Oct.
Nov,
Nov,
Nov.
Nov.

29
5
12
19
26

149
149

I63
rl70
173

1252
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov,
Nov.

31
7
14
21
28

ig
145

182

176

1958
.
Nov. 1
Nov. 8
Nov. 15
Nov. 22
Nov. 29

136
148
169
171

r—Revised,
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks,