Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : January 22, 1959

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

FOR Mt.iEDlA.TE RELEASE
January 22, 1959.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve

II

P e r c e n t a g e change from corresponding p e r i o d a y e a r ago
(Based on r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts)
Four weeks
One week ending
ending
Jan, 17
J a n , 17 | J a n , 10| J a n . 3 | Dec. 27*

District

+ 9
h
+12
- 3

+ 3
0
+ 8
r- 6

6
1
r+ 6
+ 8

+3U
+28
+31
+25

+13
+ 9
+16
+ 8

+
+

Richmond
A c/i anta
Chj.cago
S t . Louis

+
+
+
+

r+
+
r+
+

2
+ 7
0
r+ 1

+29
+27
+30
+23

+13
+14
+11
+10

+

Minneapolis
Kansas C i t y
Dallas
San F r a n c i s c o

- l
+11
+ 2
+11

r+ 2
+ 9
+ 8
r+13

+26
+29
+26
+33

+ 9
+13
+11
+18

+ 5

+ h

+30

+12

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+

U. S. Total

8
7
3
U

r

U
6
U
5

-

+

_2
9
0
+ 8
2-

+
-

+
-

+
•

+

|

2
3
2
2
2
1
2
0
0
h
0
2
1

U. S . -weekly i n d e x , w i t h o u t s e a s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t , 19U7-U9 = 100^/
M i
Dec. 20
Dec. 27
19C9
3
-Jan. 10
J a n . 17

30U
2#
rlOU
121
116

"

1957
Dec.
Dec.
1958
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

21
28

29k
158

k
11
18

102
116
110

1956
Dec.
Dec.
1957
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.

22
29

289
121

5
12
17

100
11U
107

:
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
F e d e r a l Reserve B u l l e t i n f o r A p r i l 1958, pp. iA2~k22 .
V ' . e e k l y indexes a t t h e 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.
-* This year t h e r e were t h r e e shopping days b e f o r e Christmas compared w i t h two l a s t
year.