Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : March 14, 1957

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

FOR H IT,DIATE RELEASE
March ll±, 1957
•ilEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
One week ending

District

Mar, 9 I Mar* 2 |Fob.23 1 Feb. 16
Boston
I'levf York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

=16
-18
-17
- 6

Four weeks
ending
Mar. 9

• +13
+13
+ 5
0

0
+ 1

3
1
5
3

- 2
+11
+10
+ 3

- 2

-12
0
r-16
r- 5

: f
+ 1
+
+
+
-

r i

Jan. 1
to
liar. 9
0
+ 3
- 3
- 2

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

-iu

-5
r—• 9
- 2
- 7

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

- 1
-5
-10
- 1

r+ 5
- 5
— 6
-

- 2
- 8
-9
+ 3

+10
+ 6
+ 5
+ 5

+ 1

+ 2
0
- 1
+ 1

-10

r- 5

+ 3

+ 7

- 1

+ 1

U. S. Total

k

+ 1
- 6
+ 3
- 3

-JL

+
+
+
-

2
1
2
2

U.S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19U7-li9=100 i/

Feb*l6
Feb. 2-3

101
102
100-

1956
Feb.' '11
Feb. 18
Feb; 25 .
Mar. - 3
War; 10 •

_
97
95.
97

1955
Feb. 12
Feb. 19
Feb.26

92
90.

A.

r 99'
S8_
r—Revised.
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1/ For description and vreekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1952
s.ee 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.