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••"""»"• BUSINESS August 10, 1962 STATISTICS 6r S!lgt&* A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS Available only with subscription t o t h e SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, at $4.00 annually, t h i s Supplement provides selected weekly a n d monthly data subsequent t o those published in t h e latest monthly SURVEY SELECTED BUSINESS INDICATORS Index, 1941-43 = 10 100 Index, 1941-43=10 100 Monthly (daily avg. close) PRICES OF 425 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS Weekly (Wednesday close) 90 90 h 5 0 Uyl I I 1 I 1 I I I I I 1 I I I I t 1 I » I 1 I I f 1 1 I I I I I 1 1 I I I I t I I t I. 1959 I960 1961 t I i I i lit -L-L Index, 1957-59=100 140 ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION (by utilities) i t uJ 50 J F M A M J J A S O N D 1962 Index, 1957-59=1 Monthly (E. E. 1. seas. adj. index) 130 120 - A -J 110 100 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 » 1 Billion Dollars 80 i i i i i l i t t i i 1 Billion Dollars 70 CONSUMER CREDIT OUTSTANDING NEW CONSTRUCTION (seasonally adjusted, annual rate) 60 ~ ^ * " - K ^ (short- and intermediate-term) *^SS* f^^f* -1 60 -j 50 A 40 "I Total (end of month/ Totai' 40 20 ' 0 Private Hesidenth (nonfarm) i IIII1 IiIlI l l l l l l l l l l l 1959 1960 °^°*^ / ^^/ A A Installment Cmat (end of month) 1 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 lMl l l l l l l l l l l 1961 1962 30 j i l _L 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I I I I I I I I I 1959 1960 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I ! 1961 1962 2 WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1961 1962 ITEM COMMODITY PRICES, WHOLESALE: A 1 1 commodities July 29 August 5 July 14 84.6 *99.9 *95.l *99.7 * 100.6 84.7 100.3 96.4 100.7 100.7 79.9 4,387 93 100.3 96.3 100.9 100.7 79.9 4,314 95 1957-59=100.. ALL RETAIL STORES, SALES DEPARTMENT STORE SALES July 28 August 4 90 95 100.3 96,2 100.4 100.8 80.1 4,402 96 328 2,562 1,899 319 321 2,531 1,884 406 307 1,742 1,584 253 294 1,675 1,516 286 278 269 310 32,476 28,289 19,007 650 32,450 28,508 !9,286 477 34,155 31,729 20,i39 546 34,091 31,561 20,092 562 33,901 31,315 20,003 576 33,811 31,066 19,824 400 62,240 28,823 115,045 34,103 31,320 12,952 62,381 28,862 114,923 33,790 31,499 12,956 61,567 32,860 122,506 32,237 33,278 14,400 61,768 32,952 122,271 32,245 33,038 14,469 62,819 33,023 121,657 31,745 32,960 14,506 4.71 65.84 69.61 4.72 66.94 70.89 4.63 57.73 60.42 4.63 56.20 58.74 4.64 56.46 59.08 1,386 16,061 97,287 6,945 1,323 16,137 45,761 7,024 964 16,749 171,109 7,230 1,255 16,759 173.349 7,265 1,356 16,635 161,195 7,263 1,818 97.6 591 285 1,850 99.3 589 288 1,370 73.5 498 284 1,398 75.0 558 286 1,504 80.7 567 287 mil. $.. 1957-59=100.. INITIAL UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, State programs thous.. 1 NSURED UNEMPLOYMENT, a 1 1 proqrams do..".'. State programs (50 States and Puerto Rico) do.... FAILURES, INDUST. AND COMMERCIAL (DUN & BRADSTREET)..number.. FINANCE: Currency in circulation 3/ mil. $.. Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total 5/....do.... Member bonk reserve balances 3/ ,.,.., ..'do.... July 21 100 4 96.7 101.5 100.7 79 8 Reporting member banks (of F.R.System) in leading cities:±/ Loans and investments (adjusted), total Commercial and industrial do.... loans (gross) do.... Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3/ percent.. Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's) 4/..1941-43=10.. Industrials, 425 stocks do.... PRODUCTION: FREIGHT CARLOADINGS, TOTAL U thous. cars.. Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday price. MONTHLY 3/ Daily average. £/ Wednesday data. 4.65 57.75 60.46 135,897 1,578 84.7 * Monthly index for July 1961. BUSINESS STATISTICS 1961 1962 ITEM June July Apr i 1 74,286 68,706 62,035 5,580 7.5 73,639 68,499 62,046 5,140 7.0 70,769 66,824 61,863 3,946 5.6 71,983 66,900 61,543 4,936 6.9 71,633 66,698 61,371 4,923 6.9 50,678 28,496 36 27,253 17,256 May June July 71,922 68,203 62,775 3,719 5.2 74,001 69,539 63,249 4,463 6.0 73,582 69,564 63,500 4,018 5.5 71,484 67,499 62,236 3,963 5.5 71,850 67,931 62,775 3,903 5.4 71,706 67,711 62,747 3,917 5.5 71,578 67,735 62,809 3,828 5.3 50,782 28,628 59 27,422 17,223 52,739 30,641 120 29,182 16,222 52,654 30,705 131 29,622 16,158 53,396 31,261 76 29,663 16,158 52,908 31,040 73 29,786 15,871 50,678 17,694 16,716 27,778 50,782 17,800 16,856 27,906 52,739 18,207 17,035 28,537 52,654 17,739 16,614 28,744 53,396 18,445 17,206 29,021 52,908 17,878 16,885 29,197 37.9 37.7 34.7 34.8 34.0 33.7 54,602 41,888 54,505 41,909 56,650 43,285 57,593 43,893 58,277 44,559 4,347 4,042 3,962 3,962 3,905 3,885 3,909 3,937 4,858 4,830 4, 164 4,477 4,159 EMPLOYMENT EMPLOYED do.... UNEMPLOYED CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE, TOTAL, SEAS. ADJUSTED 1/.. EMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED FINANCE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS, CONDITION, END OF MONTH: do.... do Ratio of gold certificate reserves to deposit and FR note i 1 CONSUMER CREDIT (SHORT- AND 1NTERMEDIATE-TERM) : , Installment credit extended and repaid: 1/ Effective with Apr. 30048 do.... 1 | 4,658 4,077 1 4,625 4, 108 | 4,250 4,593 4,180 | 1962, data are not strictly comparable with earlier figures; see note in the July 1962 SURVEY. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 3 1961 1962 iTEM May March June Apr i I May TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS Telephone carriers: Operat i ng revenues Operating expenses (before taxes) Net operating income 744.1 447.6 125.4 742.4 440.0 127.0 790.6 470.6 132.1 783.3 458.5 135.4 796.8 475.1 134.5 22,976 20,522 1,139 23,163 20,121 1,785 3,164 2,427 436 22,649 20,262 971 21,989 19,614 1,013 23,011 20,762 861 3,220 2,594 312 2,883 2,463 96 3 , 145 2,581 257 898 4,528 3;459 912 4,821 3,614 1,005 4,460 3,536 739 4,808 3,699 919 mil. lb. do... mil. ga I. 98.2 1.8 8.5 100.8 2.0 8.9 106.4 2.5 5.1 102.2 2.1 8.6 105.0 2.4 8.0 DDT mil. lb Ethyl acetate (85#) do.. t Ethylene glycol do.. Formaldehyde (37* HCHO) do.. Methanol, synthetic mil. gal Phthalic anhydride mil. lb SYNTHETIC PLASTICS AND RESIN MATERIALS, PRODUCTION: Cellulose acetate (sheets, rods, and tubes and molding and extrusion materials) and nitrocellulose (sheets, rods, and tubes) mi I. lb. Phenolic and other tar acid resins do... PoIystyrene do... Urea and me I amine resins do... 15.8 6.8 98.4 I4e.4 25.9 36.3 14.7 9.5 97.0 139.1 24.6 33.5 13.9 9.8 87.9 163.5 29.0 30.2 12.1 7.3 88.8 165.3 27.9 33.7 IA.5 7.9 98.4 r172.2 r28.0 r3l.5 12.0 49.7 85.9 28.8 13.0 51.1 86.6 28.7 15.6 59.8 105.6 40.1 13.2 53.8 105.5 38.8 14.2 60.9 104.5 33.6 15.2 129.0 104.5 33.7 13.0 132.8 131.3 43.6 17.9 167.0 r 122.4 r42.8 rl8.7 166.7 125.4 47.0 19.7 170.9 mil. lb. 29.5 30.0 31.5 31.3 32.3 thous. sh . tons, do... 138.1 245.5 85.0 196.9 242.5 123.4 192.1 156.9 130.9 164.0 mil. lb. 100.8 60.4 182.0 146.3 98.2 do... 41.7 34.8 30.6 31.7 23.3 tons, .do... 781.1 212.5 734.7 195.3 899.1 91.2 840.3 96.0 891.4 101.8 377.0 352.8 422.7 397.4 425.4 5,782 3,381 2,401 5,974 8,293 5,617 3,365 2,252 5,530 8,385 r6,805 r4,280 r2,525 6,777 r8,534 p5,984 p3,794 P 2,I90 p5,827 p8,598 p5,545 p3,420 p2,125 p5,169 p9,066 7,139 8,310 50,398 6,296 11,302 8,545 53,155 6,115 3,718 10,623 42, I 10 5,316 5,084 9,621 37,573 4,854 13,005 7,974 42,591 4,938 5,864 3,190 5,871 3,059 r7,198 r2,949 p6,38l p3,101 p5,283 p3,278 651 982 572 666 1,027 606 719 1,061 563 704 1,021 544 674 1,046 572 52 68 40 52 67 40 7i 76 42 72 74 50 70 80 5A 103 79 109 84 149 112 130 102 136 107 mil. $. do... do... Telegraph, cable, and radiotelegraph carriers: Wire-telegraph: Operating revenues Operating expenses Net operating revenues Ocean-cab I e: thous. $. do... do... Oper at i ng revenues Operating expenses Net operating revenues Radiotelegraph: Operating revenues Operating expenses Net operating revenues do... do... do... 3,077 2,538 194 do... do... do... 4,500 3,436 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS ORGANIC CHEMICALS, PRODUCTION: Acetic anhydride Acetyl sal icy I ic acid (aspirin) Creosote oil Vinyl res i ns Alkyd resins Po I yester res ins Polyethylene resins do... do... do... do... 41.7 FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS VEGETABLE OILS AND RELATED PRODUCTS: Corn oil: Production, crude Cottonseed cake and meaI: Production Stocks (at oil mills), end of month Cottonseed oil: Product i on, crude Linseed oiI: Production, crude (raw) Soybean cake and meaI: Production Stocks (at oil mills), end of month Soybean oiI: Production, crude thous. sh il. lb. METALS AND MANUFACTURES Iron and steel scrap: Production and receipts, total thous. sh. tons. Home scrap produced do... Purchased scrap received (net) do... Consumpt ion, tota I do... 1 Stocks, consumers , end of month do... IRON ORE (INCL. FOREIGN O R E ) : Receipts at iron and steel plants thous. Ig. tons. Consumption at iron and steel plants do... Stocks, end of mo.: At furnace yards do... At U.S. docks do... Pig iron: Consumption thous. sh. tons. Stocks (consumers 1 and suppliers 1 ), end of mo do... Castings: Gray iron: Orders, unfilled, for sale, end of mo do... Shipments, total do... For sa le do... Mai leable iron: Orders, unfilled, for sale, end of mo do... Shipments, total do... For sa I e do... Stee I: Shipments, total do... For sale, total do... r/ Revised. j)/ Pre I iminary. Digitized for 30048 FRASER MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 4 1962 1961 ITEM April July June May June July COMMODITY PRICES PRICES RECEIVED BY FARMERS, ALL FARM PRODUCTS. . 1 9 1 0 - 1 4 = 1 0 0 . . do do.... do.i.. ...do.,,. ........do.... do.... do.... ........do.... do.... do.... do.... do.... Woo 1 PRICES PAID BY FARMERS: , do.... A l l commod., s e r v i c e s , PARITY RATIO int., t a x e s , and wage r a t e s . . . d o . . . . do.... 234 231 252 261 152 200 264 262 174 517 235 229 238 266 156 201 239 261 173 519 242 236 312 268 155 224 220 255 137 543 242 243 325 276 159 230 210 255 189 543 239 236 258 275 157 230 203 253 220 543 240 231 229 275 155 229 191 252 205 542 236 239 287 132 238 241 248 289 138 232 246 240 303 139 253 242 232 303 130 260 242 230 305 128 261 248 239 310 133 257 275 290 265 300 78 275 r29l. 264. 300 78 280 294 270 306 79 280 296 269 306 79 279 294 268 305 78 279 294 268 305 79 4,600 3,325 1,928 1,345 487 839 223 348 161 107 433 r5,3l9 r3,82l r2,308 r 1,514. r692 894 229 383 185 rl22 r476 r5,790 r4,095 r2,479 r1,687 r683 r9l7 235 433 225 rl38 484 5,706 4,061 2,366 1,745 508 1,025 239 469 252 153 490 1,275 425 103 339 r1,498 r436 r 114 509 r1,695 r472 rl37 r6l8 1,645 457 101 631 58,315 41,747 23,484 11,234 2,792 4,793 2,353 1,385 5,388 r60,748 r43,472 r25,OI8 11,257 2,886 4,752 2,268 r1,466 r5,48l r62,474 r44,675 r25,977 11,403 2,950 4,865 2,352 r1,554 r5,490 61,655 44,741 25,747 11,661 2,962 5,110 2,588 1,608 5,442 16,568 5 , 106 1,442 5,057 r17,276 r5,l27 r1,349 5,830 r17,799 r5,276 rl,388 r5,989 16,914 5,023 1,178 5,769 148 147 147 147 CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE 5,301 3,690 2,138 1,407 632 900 219 401 205 156 473 5,274 3,734 2,125 1,524 501 932 216 419 220 164 491 1,611 468 136 574 1,540 450 98 562 do.... do.... 57,206 40,328 22,271 10,584 2,750 4,510 2,141 1,839 5,382 57,039 41,176 23,118 10,608 2,672 4,578 2,255 1,759 5,457 do.... do.... do.... do.... 16,878 5,229 1,382 5,527 15,863 4,963 ,1947-49=100.. 145 NEW CONSTRUCTION PUT IN PLACE <UNADJ„>, TOTAL. do.... do.... do.... do.... do.... Pub l i e , t o t a 1 Military facilities do NEW CONSTRUCTION PUT IN PLACE (SEASONALLY ADJUSTED AT ANNUAL RATES), TOTAL r mil- *-- do.... do.... Public u t i l i t i e s Pub 1 i c , t o t a 1 Military facilities CONSTRUCTION COST INDEX: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE COMPOSITE i | 1 1 i 1 IJ40 5,128 146 1 r/ Revised. J./ Except farm and public u t i l i t i e s . USCOMM-DC—30048 PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE T O A V O I D UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300 DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL BUSINESS FIRST CLASS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT OF CURRENT Digitized forSURVEY FRASER BUSINESS
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