Full text of H.8a Weekly Department Store Sales : September 27, 1956

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
H.8a

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27, 1956
WEEKLY DEPARTMENT STORE SALES

Federal Reserve
District

.Boston
New Yoik
Philadelphia
Cleveland

Percentdge change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Jan. 1
Four weeks
One week ending
to
ending
Sept. 22j Sept. 15| Sept. ti | kept. 1
Sept. 22
Sept. 22
1
+ 2
+10
+ 3
- 2
+ 3
- 1
0
+15
r+ 5
+ k
.+ U
- 3
+12
r+ 3
0 .
+ k
- 6
- 9
+11
r+ 6
0
+ 5
+ 5
+ 5

Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

+ 9
+11
+12
+11

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

+

5
- 3
- h
- U

+10
+ 1
r+ 7
+ 2

U. S. Total

+ 8

+ k

+
+
+
-

l .
7
k
2

- 5
+ 5
+
+ 7 ___ +
+1U
r+

5
4
2
5

+ 5
+ 9
+15
+ 2

+ 6
+ 1
+ U
- +11

k

+ 2

i

o
+ 6
+ 6
+ 6
+
+
+
+

| + 3
+ 6
+ k
+ 5

6
2
5
3

+ 5

+
+
+
+

5
2
h
2

+ h

U. S. weekly index,"without seasonal adjustment, 19^7-^9=100 1/
1956
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

1955
25
1
8
15
22

120
128
112
130
131

Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

195k
27
3
10
17
2k

111
125
108
125
121

- Aug. 28
, Sept. h
Sept. 11
Sept. 18
Sept. 25

102
113
97
120
118

r—Revised.
1/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1952
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1952, pp. 359-362. Indexes for the period
April 1952 to date may be obtained upon request from the Division of Research and
Statistics.
weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks,