Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : October 18, 1956

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BOARD OF GOYMKOkS OF Illh FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 18, 1956.
V/EEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
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Percentage change from . c o r r e s p o n d i n g . p e r i o d a y e a r ago

F e d e r a l Reserve
District

One week ending
Oct. 13|j Oct. 6
+16
+ 6
+10
r+10
+19
+ 3
+ 2
+ 3

Boston
Nev; York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
ChicagoS t . Louis

+ 7
- k
+ 2
0

rr+
-

Minneapolis
Kansas C i t y
Dallas
San Francisco

+
+

7
k
7
2

r- 3
- 3
-10
r- 1

+ 5

+ 2

U. 5 . Total

2
1
2
1

| S e p t . 29| S e p t . 22
+ 6
+10
+11
+15
+12
+ 5
+ 6
+10
- 2
+1U
+ 3
- 1
r+

6
1
k
5
3

Four weeks
ending
Oct. 13
+ 9
+11
+10
+ 5

Jan. 1
to
Oct. 13
+ 3
+ 5
+ 5
+ 5

+ 9
+10
+11
+11

+
+
+
+

+
+

0
- 3
- 6
- 2

+
+
+
+

+ k

+ k

5
k
3
3
8

3
5
U
2

+ 3
+ u
k
l
3
1

U. S . weekly index, without s e a s o n a l a d j u s t m e n t , 19ii7-U9=100 1/
1956

Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Oct.
Oct.

15
22
29
6
13

130
131
130
127
13k .

1955

S e p t . 17
S e p t . 2k
Oct
1
Oct.
8
Oct. 15

125
121
126
125
128

195k
' S e p t . 18
S e p t . 25
Oct.
2
Oct.
9
Oct. 16

120
118
110
118
119

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 1952
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 1952, pp. 359-362. Indexes f o r the p e r i o d
A p r i l 1952 t o date may be obtained upon r e q u e s t from the D i v i s i o n of Research and
Statistics.
Weekly indexes a t t h e d i s t r i c t and c i t y l e v e l s a r e p u b l i s h e d by s e v e r a l of t h e
F e d e r a l Reserve Banks.