Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : September 15, 1960

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H.8a

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, I960.
VJEEKLY (DEPARTMENT STORZ SALES

Federal Reserve
District

Percentage change from corresponding period a year age*
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Four weeks
One week ending
ending
Sept. 101 Sept. 31 Aug. 271 Aug. 20
Sept. 10

Boston
New York .
Philadelphia
.Cleveland

+
+
-

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

- 1
-14
- 5
- 3

3
5
1
5

Minneapolis
Kansas CityDallas
San Francisco
U.S. Total

+ 1
r+ 2
r- 6
- 2

r

- 2

:i

r- 3

- 1
+11

n

+12
+16
+ 5
+ 2

+ 3
+ 8
0
0

+
+
+

6
1
4
3

+ 7
+11
+ 4
0

+ 2
0
- 1
- 1

- 1

+ 5
+ 3

+ 2
- 1
r+ 2

+ 1

- 1

+ 4

- 8

- 2

0
+ 2
- 2

0

+ 5

U.S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 1/
1960
Aug. 13
131
Aug. 20
139
Aug* 27
144
Sept,, 3 rl47
Sept,, 13 130

1959
Aug. 15
Aug. 22
Aug. 29
Sept. 5
Sept. 12

132
132
139
148
133

1998
Aug. 16
Aug. 23
Aug. 30
Sept. 6
Sept. 13

124
134
149
123
145

r—Revised,
1/ 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.