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FEDERAL

RESERVE
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FOR Ii'3'lEDIATz RBLgA'fe
September 27, 1962

H.8a
' T'/EEKLY'rDEP ARTILENTSTORE SALES
•—~—v .
— ;

Percentage change from corresponding periods a year ago

Federal Reserve

Four weeks
ending
221 Sept. 151 Sept. 8|Sept.lSept. 22

Sept
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis

1

Minneapolis
Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
. U.S. Total

Jan. 1
to
Sept. 22

On e week ending

District

+11
+10
+ 6
+ 3

+
+
+
r+

4
8
2
2

+ 8
+19
+19
+12

+
+
+
+

.4
9
9
2

+ 7
+11
+ 8
+ 4

+
+
+
+

4
4
5
3

+ 9
6
+10
+ 8

+ 4
r- 2
r+2
r+ 1

+17
+ 8
+15
+14

+
+
+
+

4
5
7
7

+ 8
+ 4
+ 8
+ 7

+
+
+
+

4
6
6
6

6
1
2
2

+ 2
- 2
+14
r+10

+ 4
+ 9
+13
+ 5

+
+
+

6
5
1
2

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

2
2
6
6

+ 5

r+ 5

+13

+ 5

+
-

j

4
3
5
4

+ 7

+ 5

U.S. weekly sales index, jithout seasonal adjustment, 1957-59=100 1/
1962
Aug. 25
Sept. 1
Sept. 8
Sept. 15
Sept. 22

107
116
105
rll]
117

1961
Aug. 26
Sept. 2
Sept. 9
Sept. 16
Sept. 23

110
111
93
108
111

1960
Aug.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.
Sept.

27
3
10
17
24

104
1C6
94
109
107

r—Revised
1/ Monthly and weekly indexes of department store sales have been revised. For
description of revision.of monthly indexes see Federal Reserve Bulletin for July
1962. For description of revision of weekly indexes see Bulletin for August 1962
'Jeekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.