Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : March 9, 1961

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
: |
March 9, 1961.

H.8a

WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
District

One week ending
Mar. 41Feb. 251Feb. l8|Feb. 11

Four weeks
ending
Mar. 4

Jan. 1
to.
Mar. 4

+20
+15
+13
+ 8

+ 6
+ 1
- 1
0

+15
+ 9
+6
+ 9

+ 1
0
0
0

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+62
+39
+45
+25

+15
r+17
r+12
+ 6

+10
+23
+21
+ 8

+ 7
-11
-14
- 2

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+46
+29
+14
+31

+12
+14
+ 9
r+11

+11
- 7
- 1
+ 7

+
+
-

4
5
3
9

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+ 6
+26
+11
+ 8

r+10
+24
+ 8
+ 2

+
+
+
+

+
-

1
5
2
8

+ 4
+12
+ 5
+ 1

- 1
+ 9
0
0

+26

+11

- 3

+10

+ 2

U. S. Total

1
6
2
4

+ 7

1

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 l/
1961
Feb.. 4
Feb. 11
Feb. 18
Feb. 25
Mar. 4

106
111
115
122
123

I960
Feb. 6
Feb. 13
Feb. 20
Feb, 2?
Mar. 5

111
115
10?
110
93

Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Mar.

14
21
28
7

r—Revised.
if 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 are published by several of
the Federal Reserve Banks.