Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : July 24, 1958

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
J u l y 2 It, 1958.
WEEKLY 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
July l y I J u l y 12 |1 J u l y 5 I June 2ti
J u l y 19
J u l y 1-9

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+II4.
+ 6
+ 9
- 1

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+
+
-

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

0
+ 1
- 9
+ 1

3
7
2
5

+ 2

U. S . Total

+
+
+
r+

-

7
7
7
4

+10
+ 2
+ h
- 2

- 1
+11
r+19
- 2

-12
+ 1
- 5
-10

+
+
+
-

1
6
6
2

+
-

3
1
2
u

+
+
-

- 3
0
— 6
- 6

+ u
0
0
- h

-

3
3
5
1*

- l
0
- 3
- 2

6
7
3

h

0
2
7
2

+ 2
- 3
-10
- 2

- 6
0
- 6
- 2

- 1
0
- 8
0

+ 5

- + 1

- b

+ 1

r
_+
+

1
!

- 2

y

U. S. weekly i n d e x , without seasonal a d j u s t m e n t , 19U7-U9 = lOO-7
1S58
June
• June
July
July
July

21
28
5
12
19

;
117
110
102
116
110

1957
June
June
July
July
July

22
29
6
13.
20

128
115:
101
ill
108

1956
"une
June
July
July
July

23
30
7
1U
21

119

Ilk

98
108
105

r—Revised.
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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. i|12--U21.
Weekly 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 the
F e d e r a l Reserve Banks.
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