Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : October 2, 1958

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2, 195'8.
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
•
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Four weeks
Jan. 1
One week ending
to
ending
Sept. 27 | Sept. 20| SeptT 131 Sept. o
Sept. 2?
Sept. 27
/ + 2
- 1
- 6
- 6

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

-

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

3
2
1
+ 1

-

U. S. Total

-

7
U
6
1

2

7
1
3
2

+12
+ 9
+ 8
+ 1

- 2
r+ 3
0
+ H

+13
r+ k
0
+ 1

+
+
+
-

r+
r-

3
6
1
2

+ 1

+

5
3
l
3

+ U

-

+
+
+
-

+
+
+
-

9
h
6
3

0
+ 1
- 1
- h

7
3
2
3

+ 8
+ 5
- 5
r- 2

+ 3
~+T
- 3
+ 1

-

1
1
U
2

1
2
2
+ 2

- 3
+ 2
0
+ 1

+
-

2
2
2
1

2

+ 1

+

- 1

U. S . weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 19U7-U9
1958
Aug. 30
Sept. 6
' Sept. 13
Sept. 20
. Sept. 27

1 h9
123
1U5
136
136

1957
Aug. 31
Sept . 7
Sept,. 1U
Sept,. 21
Sept,. 28

ia
121
1U0
135
139

1956

,

Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

looi/
1

ti

;
15
2.2
;
29

139
122
1U2
1U3
lUl

r—Revised.
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958 see
Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1956, pp. U12-U21.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.