Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : October 19, 1961

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FEDERAL

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RESERVE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 19, 1961.

H.8a
EEKLv" IDE?ARTi-IENT STORE SALES

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Four weeks
Jan. 1
One week ending
ending
to
Get. 14l Oct. 7! Sept. 3C| Sept. 23 Oct. 14
Oct. 14

• Federal Reserve
District
Boston
Mew York
Philadelphia
Cleveland

+
+
+
+

4
2
5
2

0
+ 3 + 1 + 4
-2
r+7
- 4
+ 3
3 -^6
+7
+6
- 6
—+.4 r+ 6
r+ 2

+
+
+
+

2
1
4
1

+ 1
0
0
- 1

+ 4
-2
+3
-2

0
+
6
+ 1 1
+9

+
+
+
+

4
3
5
4

+ 2
+ 4
0
+ 2

+4

+

4

+ 1
-1
• + 9
0

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
U. S. Total

J
,

n

+9
+9
r+5
+ 6
+
8 +
3
r+ 2
+2

+ 1 + 1 1
+
3 +
5
r+5
0
r+5
+ 6
+

6 +

5

-2
-3
1
+ 3

"

r

+ 5
+ 1
' 0
- 1

+ 2

i

U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 l/
1961
Sept. 16
Sept. 23
SeptJOOctr
7
Oct. 14

150
154
156
164
1<6

1260
Sept. 17
Sent. 24
Oct.
1
Oct.
8
Oct. 15

,
150
143
149
155
156

1252
Sept.
Sept.
Oct.
Oct.
Oct.

19
26
3
1 0
17

158
145
143
152
161

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.