Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : February 2, 1956

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SXSTLM
FOR DMLDIAT1 RELEASE
February 2,
56

H.8
V.EEKLT DEP.ARIi'ENT STORE SALES .

Percentage change from, corresponding period a year' ago
(Based on reta:LI dollar amounts)
Four weeks j
Year
One week ending
ending
1955
Jan. 28
Jan. 20 j Jan. 21 | Jan.
1U j Jan. 7
.

Federal Reserve
District

!

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+ 9
+10
+1U
+20

- 1
r+ 8
+ h
- 3

- 8
+ 5
+ 3
+10

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St, Louis

+ 8
0
+15
+ 5

r+
+
-

0
+ 8
+ 3
+10

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+
-

U. S. Total

-19

-1U

-13
-11

+
+
+

6
2
1
3

i
j
i
1

2
7
3
3

8
3
3
5

0
+ U
- 3
+ 3

+10
+" k
+ 9
+ 2

+ 8

+ 3

+ 5

-

9
5
9
9

- 8
-11
-12
- -15
-li

+ 3
+ 2

+ T

+10

- 1
+ 3
+ 2
0

+ 6
+10
+ 8
+ 8

+ 2 •
- 2
- 1
- k

+
+
+
+

+ 1

+ 7

3
8
9
6

!
U.. s. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1917-19=100 1/
1955

1955
Dec. 31
1956
Jan. 7
Jan. Ik
Jan. 21
• Jan. 28

195 U

68

Jan.

l

80

Jan.

2

81

9k

Jan. 8
Jan. 15
Jan. 22
Jan. 29

106
99
95
67

Jan.
Jan.
. Jan.
Jan.

9
16
23
30

9U
85
86
85

lOll
98

9k

—Revised.
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1952 see
Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1952-, pp. 359-362. Indexes for the period April
1952 to date may be obtained upon request from the Division of Research and
Statistics.
weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.
. .