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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Avoiloble only with subscription to the monthly magazine SURVEY Of CURRENT BUSINESS December 10, 1954 * » » » This Supplement provides selected weekly data and monthly data subsequent to thdse published in the latest monthly SURVEY * » * * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 19^- 1953 '1954 1953 1 TFM 1 TPM Dec. 5 Commodity prices, wholesale: A l l commodities. . . 19*7-49-100 *I09.8 Farm products . . do. . *93.7 *I03.8 Foods, processed do.. *l 14.5 A l l other .do. 88.6 22 commodities 2/ dp. . **I33 Department store sales »^do Insured unemployment, total thous **l, 149 ** 1,065 State programs. .... do. . Failures, ind. & comm. . .number 202 Bond yields, domestic corpo3.39 rate (Moody 's) 3/. . . . percent Nov. 20 Nov. 27 109.7 93.0 103.8 1 14.5 90.7 134 109.5 92.0 103.2 1 14.5 90.4 133 10.9.5 91.8 103.5 1 14.5 90.2 #1,584 #1,413 208 226 221 3. 13 3. 12 3. 13 Nov. 20 Nov. 27 Dec. 4 192.0 207.5 254.5 284.8 258.6 289.8 258.2 289. 1 ** 1,488 1,495 1,470 **8,582 116,857 **6, 133 9,317 155,960 6, 163 9,087 130,396 6, 167 122.8 **596 **3I7 1 17.8 697 354 1 19.2 584 306 - Dee. 5 Dec. 4 Stock prices (480), Standard and Poor's ..1935-39-100 Industrials (420) do.. Production : Bitum coal 3/ thous sh tons Electric power, by u t i l i t i e s mi 1 kw -hr Motor vehicles (Ward's) No. Petroleum crude 3/ thous bb 1 Steel (ingots & for castings quantity) 4/ 1947-49-100 Freight car loadings thous cars Miscellaneous do 164,543 120.8 \J Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday prices. 3/ D a i l y average. 4/ Week ended December II, 121.0. *' Monthly index for November 1953. *•* For week corresponding to latest for which data are shown. # Data for preceding week: Total, 1,664,000; State programs, 1,490,000. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1954 1953 November September October November COMMODITY PRICES Prices rec'd by farmers, all farm products 1910- 14= 100 Crops do. . Food grains do. . Feed grains and hay do.. Tobacco . . do Cotton do . . Fruit do. . Commercial vegetab les. . .do. . Oi l-bearing crops . do Livestock and products. . .do. . Meat animals. . ... .do Dairy products do. . Poultry and eggs do.. Prices paid by farmers* A l l commod. & services. . .do. . Fami ly l i v i n g items .do Product ion items do. . A l l commod., services, int., taxes, etc 1910-14-100 Parity ratio do.. Retail price (Dept. Commerce): A l l commodities 1935-39-100 249 234 229 195 433 269 205 218 263 263 267 288 224 246 247 233 210 444 292 248 170 276 245 Til 253 162 242 243 235 204 441 293 218 191 275 242 267 263 153 244 244 239 199 438 281 206 237 111 243 266 266 159 259 270 r247 263 273 251 262 273 250 262 272 251 277 90 280 88 279 87 279 87 *2IO 0 208 2 207 6 New construction: Unadjusted, total mi 1 dol. Pr i vate , tota 1 do . . Residential (nonfarm) do New d w e l l i n g uni ts. . . .do. . Additions and alter.. .do.. Nonres. bldg., total J_/.do.. 1 ndustr i a l do. . Commercial do. . Farm construction do. . Pub 1 ic uti 1 ity do. . P u b l i c , total do. . Nonresidential bldg. ...do.. M i l i t a r y faci 1 tties. . . .do. . Highway do. . 1953 data. 3,024 2,077 1,034 915 94 523 177 192 1 18 393 947 353 96 286 3,609 2,437 1,306 1, 175 106 551 160 207 153 415 1, 172 424 91 445 r3,477 r2,395 1,306 1, 180 102 r54l r!63 197 126 410 r 1,082 r39l r95 r390 November CONSTRUC. & REAL ESTATE - Con. New construction - Con. Seasonally adjusted, total mi 1. dol. Pr i vate, tota 1 do. . Residential (nonf arm) . .do. . Nonres. b u i l d i n g I/. ...do.. Farm construction do.. Public utility do.. September October November 2,936 2,002 976 502 139 375 3, 153 2,216 1, 196 515 127 367 r3, 106 r2,207 1, 196 r506 126 367 3, 177 2,238 1,207 526 125 368 934 P u b l i c , total do.. 370 Nonresidential bldg. ...do.. Highway. . . . . do. . 277 Construction cost indexes: Department of Commerce, composite .. 1947-49-100 *I22 5 The American Appraisal Co.: Avg. 30 cities 1913-100 585 Atlanta do. . 641 New York do.. 609 San Franc i sco. do. . 525 St. Louis do.. 576 937 384 299 r899 r365 r277 939 379 29| r 122 7 123 1 595 649 629 539 596 597 649 629 545 598 598 649 629 545 599 F 1 NANCE CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE £/ Revised. * October 1954 1953 1 TFM ITEM 3,263 2,322 1,267 1, 150 95 551 169 200 106 386 941 360 90 300 \J Except farm and p u b l i c utility. Federal Government finance: Gross debt (direct), end of month m i l . dol. 275,209 Interest-bearing, total. do.. 273, 128 P u b l i c issues do.. 232, 1 15 41,013 Special issues do.. Non interest bearing do.. 2,081 Obligations guaranteed by 74 U. S. Government. . .mi 1 . dol. Security markets: Stocks, prices: Dow-Jones & Co., Inc. (65 stocks) dol. per share 105.82 277. 10 Industrial (30) do.. 51.57 P u b l i c uti lity ( 15) do.. 97.23 Railroad (20) do.. 274,810 272,440 230,033 42,407 2,370 278,752 278,853 276,400 276,51 1 234, 161 234, 160 42,238 42,351 2,352 2,342 29 34 130.40 352.71 61.04 1 16.03 131.54 358.30 59.43 1 18.41 34 137.84 375 . 50 60. 12 126.95 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued 1954 1953 1953 I TtrM October August September October October FINANCE - Con. GEN. BUS. INDICATORS - Con. Life insurance (LIAA): Assets, admitted, 49 compan i es , tota 1 . . . m i l . do 1 Bonds 4 stocks, total... do.. Government (domestic and foreign), totaL.mil. dol. U. S. Government do.. Public u t i l i t y do.. Ra i Iroad . . . do . Other do. . Cash do. . Mortgage loans, total... do.. Farm. do. . Other . do. Policy loans and premium notes do. . Real -estate holdings. .. .do. . Other admitted assets. . .do. . Bonds : Average price of a l l listed bonds (NYSE) I/ ....dollars Domest i c do. . Manufacturers1 sales, inventories, and orders - value: Sales, total 2/ m i l . dol. Durab le goods do. . Nondurab le goods do. . Inventories, book value, end of month, total 2/.ml 1 ... dol. Durable goods do.. Nondurab le goods ........ do. . New orders, net, total 2/.do. . Durab le goods. .do. . Nondurab le goods do. . U n f i l l e d orders, total 3/.do.. Durab le goods , do. . Nondurable goods do.. Value, issues listed NYSE: Market value, all issues I/ mi 1. dol. Domest i c do . . Foreign do. . Face value, all issues I/ mi 1 . dol . Stocks : Shares 1 i sted on NYSE : Market value m i l . dol. No. shares 1 i sted. . .mi 1 1 ions GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATORS Personal income, seasonally adjusted, at annual rates: Tota 1 b i 1 . dol. Wage & salary disbursements, tota 1 b i 1 . do 1 . Commodity-producing industries . . do Distributive ind do.. Service industries do.. Gover nment do . . Other labor income. .,.. .do. . Proprietors' and rental income b i l . do 1 . Personal interest income and dividends bi 1 dol. Transfer payments do.. Less personal contributions for social ins b i l . dol. Total nonagr. income do.. 67 , 685 41,976 71,529 43,598 71,930 43,713 72,341 43,870 10,517 8,566 12, 132 3,451 15,875 776 18,950 1,648 17,302 10, 197 7,839 12,857 3,552 16,992 826 20,555 1,770 18,785 10,088 7,757 12,953 3,542 17, 129 815 20,767 1,779 18,988 9,993 7,692 13,002 3,587 17,287 823 20,961 1,786 19, 175 2,413 1,745 1,824 2,549 1,879 2, 122 2,560 1,914 2,161 2,569 1,942 2,175 97.59 98.03 75.70 100.53 100.90 78.96 100.62 101.00 78.74 100.39 100.74 79.71 94,572 92,613 1,406 109,495 107,382 1,440 109,350 107,232 1,448 109,395 107,269 1,453 96,904 94,471 1,858 108,816 106,322 1,829 108,778 106,280 1,833 108,965 106,477 1,823 1 15,428 2,902 142,284 3,071 150,659 3,093 148, 163 3,094 287.8 285.4 r286.6 285.9 199. 1 195.5 M95.4 195.8 87 9 52.5 25.0 33.7 6.6 82 7 52.8 25.8 34.2 6.6 r82 4 52.9 r25.9 34.2 6.6 82.7 52.7 26. 1 34.3 6.6 48.0 48.2 r48.8 47.2 23 5 14.6 24.3 15.5 24 4 r!6.0 24.5 16.4 4.0 272.7 4.7 270.2 r4.6 r27 1 . 1 4.6 271.8 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE September October 23,482 10,952 12,530 r 23, 626 r l 0,947 r 12, 679 23,377 10,789 12,588 47,044 26,987 20,057 22, 163 9,677 12,486 63, 626 60,796 2,830 43,929 24,232 19,697 22,560 9,978 12,582 47,275 44,673 2,602 r43,668 r24, 120 r 19,548 r24,463 r 1 1 , 699 r 12,764 r48,OOI r45,260 r2,74l 43,773 24,372 19,401 23,974 1 1,506 12,468 48, 198 45,549 2,649 43,820 37,658 6, 162 47, 196 41, 167 6,030 45,529 39,547 5,981 46,709 40,456 6,253 Shoes & slippers, production, 42,437 tota 1 thous. pairs 34,937 Shoes, sandals, etc. 4/..do.. 8, 178 Men's do. . 1,402 Youths' and boys' ...... .do. . 16,608 Women ' s do. . 5,712 Misses' and chi ldren's..do. . 3,037 Infants' and babies'. ...do. . Slippers for housewear . . .do. . 6,962 285 Ath let ic do. . 48,523 41,737 7,848 1,953 23,065 6,122 2,749 6,315 293 42,795 35,787 7,508 1,685 18,351 5,513 2,730 6,447 288 42,883 35,349 8,089 1,621 17,611 5,262 2,766 6,939 331 ELECTRIC POWER Electric power, production, total m i l . kw.-hr. Ut? 1 ities * do.. Industrial estab 1 ish. . .. .do. . LEATHER AND PRODUCTS PAPER AND PRINTING Newsprint, Canada: Production sh. tons Shipments from mi Ms do.. Stocks, m i l l s , end mo. ...do.. Newsprint, United States: Con sump, by publ ishers. . .do. . Production .do. . Sh i pments from m i l l s do. . Stocks, end of month: At mi 1 Is do.. At publishers... do.. In transit to publ ish. ..do. . TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT Motor vehicles, factory sales, tota 1 number Coaches, total do.. Domestic do. . Passenger cars, total ... .do. . Domest i c do. . Trucks, total do.. 510,772 506,544 144,764 503, 145 518,844 158,988 49 1 , 1 53 525,996 482,559 541,835 167,582 151,743 429,509 97, 1 12 96,288 360,825 99,492 98,503 388,321 437,191 96,592 1 10,328 98,202 107,407 7,072 514,419 80,803 8,643 508,703 66,199 9,954 7,O33 490,256 448,907 77,057 64,769 621,288 519 496 528,814 516,969 91,955 79,541 521,450 309 306 445,306 431,371 75,835 60,263 369,942 287,557 326 397 314 385 300,998 221,195 292,721 214,913 68,618 65,965 48,793 50,845 separately. 2/ Adjusted. 3/ Unadjusted. PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT Of POSTAGE $300 FIRST CLASS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. Pel-Bit No. 1000 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS August 25,010 12,376 12,634 jr/ Revised. _[/ Includes data of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, not shown 47 Except athletic. DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1954 ITEM
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