Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : November 20, 1958

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR BMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 1958.

H.8a
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding p e r i o d a y e a r ago
( B a s o n r e t a i l d o l l a r amounts)
Four weeks
Jan. 1
One week ending
to
ending
Nov. 1$
Nov. 15
Nov. 15 | Nov. ti j Nov. 1 | Oct . 25

Boston
Nev; York
Pnilarielphia
Cleveland

+
+
-

5
2
5
2

+ 5
+ 2
+ 2
r 0

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
S t . Louis

+
+
+
+

3
h
l
6

+10
r+11
- 1
- u

Minneapolis
Kansas^City
Dallas
San F r a n c i s c o

— 6
+ 5
+ l
+11

+
+
+
-

.+ 3

U. S. Total

+1U
+ k
+ 7
0
+
r+
+
+

3
+ 3
+ 7
0

+

+
+
+
-

+
+
+
-

6
2
5
1

1
2
1
3

6
2
1
7

+ 3

5
l
+ 3

+ 6
0
+ 3

-Ck
0
- 3
- 1

3
8
1
2

+ 2
+11
+ 6
+ 5

+ 3
k
3
+ 8

+ k
+ 7
+ 1
+ 5

- 1
+ 3
- 1
0

+ 2

+ r

+ 3

LSL-

U. S. weekly index, without s e a s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t , 19U7-U9 = 100-/
1958
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Nov. 1
Nov, 8
Nov. 15

1U6
1U0
136
1U8
157

1957
Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.'
Nov.

19
26
2
9
16

138
136
130
1U5
152

1956
Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.

20
27
3
10
17

lUo
139
13 U
1U9
165

r—Revised.
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. U12~U21.
Weekly indexes a t the d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s a r e published by s e v e r a l of t h e
F e d e r a l Reserve Banks.