Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : May 24, 1962

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FEDERAL
statistical

2P

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,962

RESERVE

release

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4 T E relM&'I
May 24, 1962

F0R

H.8a
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago

Federal Reserve

I
1
1

District

May 19 1 May 121%ay 51 April 28

Boston
Net: York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

- 7
+ 4
+11

+
+
rf
+

3
4
8
3

+ 5
+ 8
+21
+15

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 6
j + 8
i +17
1 +14

r+ 1
+11
+ 7
r+15

+17
+20
+15
r+13

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

i + 3
0
| + 1
j + 5

r- 4
+13
+15
r+ 7

+15
+20
+24
+13

1 + 7
f

+ 8

+15

U. S. Total

+ 1
- 4
- 3

...Four weeks
ending
May 19

to
May 19

0

+ 4

+ 7
+10

+ 5
+ 4

2
2
8
9

+ 6
+ 9
+12
+13

+
+
+
+

5
6
7
6

+15
+ 2
- 2
+15

+ 7
+ 9
+ 9
+10

+
+
+
+

2
3
5
7

+10

+
+
r+

+5

:

+ 8
1

+ 6
1

U.S. weekly index. without seasonal adjustment. 1947-49=100 l/
1962 ^

Apr. 21
Apr. 28

^

May
5
May 12
Way 19

165
153
l6l
169
156 . .

1961
Apr . 22
Apr. 29
May
6
May 13
May 20

144
146
140
157
146

1260
Apr. 23
Apr. 30
May
7
May ;14
May i21

146
151
156

134
138

r—Hevised
*—Not Available
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 are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.