Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : June 29, 1961

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 29, 1961.

H.8a

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year
- (Based on retail dollar amounts,
Jan. 1
Fouir weeks
One week ending
to
ending
June 24
June 24
June 241June 17(June 101 June

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+
+
+
+

5
3
4
1

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 5
- 2

+ 2

Minneapolis
Kansas City Dallas
San Francisco
V u. S. Total

+
+
+

4
2
1
4

+ 2

- 2
- 2

+
+
+
+

7
5
4
2

+ 4
+ 2
- 1

7
5
1
6

+ 3
0
0
+ 3

4- 6
+ 2
+ 3
+ 1

+ 1
0
- 1
- 1

6
6
3
7

+ 5
+ 2
- 5
0

+ 5
+ 5
- 3

+
+
+

+ 8
+11

+
+
+
+

8
8
2
1

+ 5
+ 1

+11
+ 5
r+ 9
+ 4

•+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
r+
r+

5
8
4
7

r+ 8

- 2

V
+ 4

1
5
1
1

+ 1
I

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 1/
1961
May 27
June 3
June 10
June 17
June 24

137
132
151
rl59
127

I960
bay 28
June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25

139
131
144
147
124

1259
May 30
June 6
June 13
June 20
June 27

122
150
141

£1

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 arc published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.