Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : November 27, 1959

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR Iiu'EDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 1959.

H.8a

VH5EKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
Federal Reserve
District
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Nov. 211 Nov. 14|Nov. 7l0ct. 31
Nov. 21
Nov. 21
' + 9
+ 8
+ 4
+ 8

0
r+ 7
+10
+ 6

+ 3
r+ 3
-11
+ 6

+ 7
r+ 7
0
+ 9

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 4
+ 9
+11
+ 7

+ 1
r+11
+ 9
+ 7

- 5
+ 7
+ 7
+17

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

0
+ 5
+10
+ 2

+
r+
+

7
3
8
2

+ 6

U. S. Total

+ 8

+
+
+
+

5
6
l
7

+
+
+
+

3
3
4
7

+10
+13
+ 7
+ 2

+ 2
+10
+ 8
+ 8

+
+
+
+

4
7
9
7

- 1
+ 3
+11
+10

+
+
+

8
1
1
6

0
+ 3
+ 8
+ 5

+
+
+
+

5
7
7
9

+ 5

+

7

- + 6

+ 7

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 l/
1959
Oct. 24
. Oct. 31
Nov. 7
Nov. 14
Nov. 21

rl51
145
155
167

. 182

1958
Oct. 25
Nov. 1
Nov, 8
Nov. 15
Nov. 22

140
136
148
157
169

1957
Oct. 26
Nov. 2
Nov. 9
Nov. 16
Nov. 23

136
130
145
152
166

r—Revised.
l/ 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.