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.ntMENTOpr^ December 27, 1963' STATISTICS BUSINESS A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS Available only with subscription to the SURVEY OF .CURRENT BUSINESS, at $4.00 annually, this Supplement provides selected weekly and monthly data subsequent to those published in the latest monthly SURVEY SELECTED BUSINESS INDICATORS Index, 1941-43 = 10 90 Index, 1941-43 = 10 90 PRICES OF 425 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS Wmk$y (Wednesday clos®) (daily avg. close) 80 70 h 60 50 50 40 ^l^J^J^-^LJ-^L-J^L-L I960 40 L.J.U-^J^Lj.J^J^^ 1962 1961 J F M A M J J A S Q N D 1963 Index, 1957-59 = 100 200 index, 1957-59 = 100 200 Monthly STEEL PRODUCTION (Ingots and steel for costings) - 150 S 100 \^^^ - 50 0 . ^ J ^ i ^ J ^ J ^ J ^ J ^ l . J ^ a ^ L a ^ ^J^JuJ^^J^l^J^J^L^J^^^ •^J^J^X-JL^JL-J^J-J^^ „J^^J™LJ_1^±^J_^ 1961 1960 1963 1962 Millions 2.5 PRIVATE NONFAUM HOUSING STARTS * Index, 1957-59 = 100 130 COTTON CONSUMPTION 2.0 120 h 1.5 110 (daily average; seas, adj.) 1.0 fy-^w^Y^ 100 90 y r \\y T\ ^ *S®asonalSy adjusted, at annual rates L-JUL_L1J-J-_JL-J-JJ-^ 1960 I M I I I I I 1961 1962 1963 80 L ^ u ^ l j 1960 I M I I I I I I > I I t J 1961 ^ajLaJLuu 1962 1963 WEEKLY 2 BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1963 1962 ITEM COMMODITY PRICES, WHOLESALE: A11 commodities, .ooao do.... ...mi 1. $.. 1957-59-100.. ALL RETAIL STORES SALES .. DEPARTMENT STORE SALES INITIAL UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, State programs ......do.... State programs (50 States and Puerto Rico ) FAILURES, INDUST. AND COMMERCIAL (Dun & Bra(istreet)..number.. FINANCE: Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total J>/. ...do.... Reporting member banks (of F.R.System) in leading cities:4_/ ..........mil. $.. Demand deposits, adjusted.. Savings deposits......... ............do.... Loans and investments (adjusted)^, total do Commercial and industrial loans (gross)..........do.... Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's ) 1/..1941-43=10,. do.... PRODUCTION: .thous. sh. tons.. ..•..mi 1. kw.-hr.. number.. „thous„ sh. tons.. 1957-59=100.. thous. cars.. do Stee 1 .. FREIGHT CARLOAD 1NGS TOTAL* J/ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday price. MONTHLY Dec. 14 Dec. 22 92.4 5,727 246 444 2,135 1,977 252 *100,4 *97.3 *I00.9 *!00.7 92.5 6,451 271 412 2,157 2,006 249 94.9 4,767 127 256 1,862 1,710 190 95.1 5,723 232 377 1,896 1,748 265 35,226 32,629 19,527 446 35,366 33,163 19,953 515 36,872 35,512 20,036 338 37,273 36,010 20,320 585 37,487 35,945 19;996 193 65,029 34,572 126,817 31,231 34,807 15,470 66,326 34,607 129,361 31,619 35,075 15,483 63,950 37,699 135,298 27,926 37,254 17,846 65,412 37,740 136,749 28,485 37,476 17,879 4.53 62,63 65.60 4.52 62.58 65.52 4.54 72.25 76.32 63,527 37,729 135,697 28,393 37,326 17,855 4.54 73.80 78.04 1,312 18,009 204,606 7,341 1,556 17,560 194,326 7,340 1,385 16,976 175,496 7,558 1,583 18,427 218,236 7,597 1,578 18,993 217,774 7,619 1,832 98.3 501 283 1,874 100.6 512 274 2,000 107.4 467 258 2,042 109.6 558 305 2,037 109.3 540 297 1957-59=100,. .do.... do.... ••.. Nov. 30 Dec. 15 3/ Daily average. Dec. 7 100.2 92.7 101.4 101.0 94.5 6,156 263 Dec. 21 100 93 100 101 94 2 0 8 1 6 378 257 4.54 73.90 78.05 37,6^ ? 1 36,507 20,660 506 74,(33 78.?35 47 Wednesday data. * Monthly index for Dec. 1962. BUSINESS STATISTICS 1963 1962 ITEM Oct. Nov. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATORS ±/ 1 MANUFACTURERS SHIPMENTS: 2/ Value (not seasonally adjusted): ...bi1. $.. 17.7 17.5 16.9 18.3 19.1 18.4 do.... 17.1 17.2 18.2 17.9 18.5 18,2 17.6 16.9 16.9 18.5 18.8 17.7 do.... 17.3 16.7 18.1 18.2 18.6 17.8 do.... 43.4 42.8 47.1 47.3 47.1 46.4 43.6 43.2 46.7 47.1 47.2 46 8 1,410 III 231 244 672 152 1,216 109 193 200 590 124 1,135 108 210 187 522 108 1,051 113 189 167 467 115 1,262 133 207 217 578 127 1,115 129 198 186 479 123 .thous. $.. .....do.... 119,092 7,634 24,728 48,833 26,876 11,021 98,841 16,184 16,095 34,069 24,107 8,386 65,233 5,304 12,394 18,748 19,341 9,446 85,918 6,579 21,522 28,149 15,644 14,024 91,834 10,758 12,981 32,777 23,603 11,715 262,112 4 171 20,325 197 942 26,832 12,842 Failure annual rate (seas. adj.)..No. per 10,000 concerns.. 66.3 59.4 54.5 59.4 59.6 55.1 Value (seasonally adjusted): MANUFACTURERS' ORDERS: 2/ New orders, net (not seasonally adjusted): New orders, net (seasonally adjusted): Unfilled orders, end of month (unadjusted): Unfilled orders, end of month (seas, adj.): ___.do INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.): do.... do.... do.... do.... do.... Liabl1 ities (current), total U CORRECTION: Owing to delay in reporting Govt, payments data, the figure for total cash receipts from farming, including Govt, payDigitized forments FRASER (shown on p. S-3 of Dec. 1963 SURVEY) should read $5,303 million instead of $4,906 million. 2/ Data for Nov. 1963 are advance estihttp://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ mates. 36185 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS —Continued 3 1963 1962 ITEM Aug, Sept. Oct. Nov. Oct. Nov. do do 10,718 132 6,479 4,107 1-4,898 246 12,017 2,635 9,399 184 5,613 3,603 8,142 254 4,968 2,920 13,033 189 8,139 4,706 5, 1 1:5 2,850 138.0 92.1 135.2 122.5 78.8 120.9 147.9 95.8 144.4 r!47.3 94.1 M45.3 rI63.4 118.5 do do r!60.5 116.9 do do do.... 134.1 94.5 131.3 121.4 83.7 I 19.8 rl44. 1 rl04.5 r!42.1 r!60.I 117.6 r!57,2 N5.9 114.3 1,537 1,491 1,579 1,564 1,455 1,434 r1,732 rI,697 rl,8!9 r 1,779 1,528 1,495 762 845 846 734 743 768 848 848 740 748 786 862 867 774 762 788 862 869 775 762 790 863 872 778 765 791 778 774 ....do ....do.... 5,762 3,031 738 1,993 5,719 3,037 746 1,936 6,428 3,240 706 2,482 6,430 3,259 735 2,436 6,418 3,280 848 2,290 6,366 3,291 858 2,217 ,.bil. $.. ....do do 307.4 127.5 62.8 288.2 116.5 59.4 300.1 119.5 61.9 310.4 130.3 63.1 337.1 136.9 71.3 296.6 1 16.7 63.8 do.... ....do ....do ....do.... 297.9 124.5 61.0 112.4 296.4 122.2 61.1 113. 1 310.3 127.8 63.3 119.2 329.7 140.1 67.0 122.6 326.7 133.7 69.4 123.6 312.7 125.4 67.3 120.0 43.6 80.7 46.0 29.0 CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE CONCRETE PAVEMENT AWARDS: ±/ „ sq. yds.. 8,164 199 NEW HOUSING UNITS STARTED; Unadjusted: 145.5 r100.4 142.0 Seasonally adjusted at annua! rates: ,.do .....do Construction cost Indexes (The American Appraisal (Do.): 1913=100.. do St. Lou Is ...«,.„ do.... do 863 872 FINANCE AGRICULTURAL LOANS AND DISCOUNTS OUTSTANDING OF AGENCIES SUPERVISED BY THE. FARM CREDIT ADM.: BANK DEBITS: Unadjusted: Seasonally adjusted: New York City 337 other centers TURNOVER OF DEMAND DEPOSITS EXCEPT INTERBANK AND U, s. GOVERNMENT, ANNUAL RATE, SEASONALLY ADJUSTED: deposits.. .....do.... do do SECURITIES ISSUED: Securities and Exchange Commission: ..mi I. $.. By types of security: . ..,do do do.... do.... By type of issuer: .do.... do ....do.... 43.5 82.9 43.7 28.5 42.9 80.7 43.5 28.5 44.9 88.9 44.2 29.5 46.8 96.9 46.7 29.9 46.2 87.2 48.4 30.1 2,150 1,821 2,010 1,673 3,023 2,027 853 74 49 1,768 732 28 24 1,910 686 61 39 1,586 784 81 5 2,897 1,043 91 36 976 167 2! 784 275 8 786 279 13 ....do.... do.... do do.... 252 6 262 228 228 25 4 185 124 8 97 191 871 287 6 79 5! 40 358 1,170 279 11 273 17 48 478 ....do.... do.... ....do.... 1,174 359 646 1,036 327 595 1,224 398 726 802 347 452 1,854 394 1,282 do 961 776 774 862 1,154 ....do.... ..l.do.... do do do 727 467 259 126 108 494 263 230 73 209 596 269 326 107 71 730 373 357 67 6 5 960 378 582 92 102 „.doliars.. of total.. 1951=100.. 10.14 69 9.82 59 106 9.60 59 9.56 63 107 10.24 68 109 New corporate security Issues: Proposed uses of proceeds: New money, tota1 Work i ng cap ita 1 Retirement of securities Other purposes » TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUN1CAT1ONS •HOTELS: Mi i j r / Revised. J./ Data f o r Oct. 1962 and Oct. 1963 are f o r 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. 36185 104 9.82 58 101 4 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 1962 1963 ITEM Aug 0 Oct. Sept. Oct. Nov. METALS A N D MANUFACTURES PIG IRON! Production (excl. prod„ of ferroal!oys) 0 .^thcus. s h B t o n s . . Steel forgfngs (for sale)? Orders, unfilled, end of m o n f h e o < s o s . . .. ...... ........ .do.... Shipments, total **<>*... oea.... OQ ... •...Ba • ....0.. • a s e d o e o a . Drop and upset.......,-. .....do..., MACHINE TOOLSt MetaS cutting tools? Orders, new (net), t o t a l . . „ . . 0 0 . . . . „ . . . e o o o e s 8 . e „ m i ! . $., 0omestlcO9es)SBB(Bae! 1 .......ffla,oaa® odo esfflS Shipments, t o t a l . .os.... „.00.. oe eo.. BO.... eg 0oo ee . „doe6)effl Domestic... ....... „<>«,.. s « •. •... • •... ••. <>*> • • •. ....do... • Estimated back iog e .8s-a.es . * 8....Ee0e „.0., e8 „.,„.,,. 8 months s « Metal forming tools? Orders, new ( n e t ) , total.....;.......,............mi I. $ o e Domestic®as.......o...»8=6,,,..».,.o..o.0»,8,3..,do,J8, ShIpments, t o t a ! , . , . . , „ . e . . 0 . 0 „ . 0 . . . 8 , . . „ 8 „ . . e , . s d o 8 8 0 < Domestic®«,. s e ® . . . 0o 6 o«» e ... •.. • • , , , , . e , , » 0 , , , . , , » , d o M 4 , Estimated backlog,,*,,...,......... BS<3O0os....e „ s ..months., 5365 5,009 5,094 5,278 271 IS6 89 277 108 83 310 105 78 48.30 41.90 44.75 34.75 4.1 47.25 40.65 48.05 38.85 4.0 49 .20 38 .55 4! o20 33 e30 5.6 56.55 45.40 54.75 42 s 85 5,5 r66 .85 r53 .35 r54 .05 r42 ,95 r 5,7 59.75 50.00 52.00 41.35 5a7 I6 S 30 14.35 16.90 12.70 4.7 14.65 12.25 12.70 9 a 40 4«7 19.85 18.15 12.65 IS e40 4.2 22 s 35 I7 a 60 14.70 12.10 4,6 r32 .35 r29 s95 rl6 .35 rl3.00 5,4 15,60 14.95 13.20 10.50 5e7 823 667 667 663 829 678 S8,712 16,495 i S ,565 463 10J 34 18,730 16,395 9,253 463 8,035 18,681 15,757 9,344 467 7,870 18,696 55,758 9 ,345 467 7 ,903 18,742 15,753 I 1,788 18,660 15,653 9,538 477 8,000 2 .692 20 ,624 624 S?520 775 2,545 8,806 689 1,369 658 2,739 21,061 813 1,371 1,005 2 ,440 18,874 804 2,529 22,353 843 1,640 978 2,799 2,162 637 2 205 S,660 545 4,141 2,907 1,234 4,327 2,984 1,343 4 725 3 366 i 359 3,911 2,925 986 5, 174 r298 r I 15 r9l 5,525 506 S23 95 TEXTILE PRODUCTS COTTONs U Consumpt1on,........,............. 0 ..... thous. bales 0 •Manufactures s Spindle activity (cotton system splndles)s Active spindles, last working d a y , total. o oaso86 thous ffl Consuming 100 percent cotton..... a „ 0 a f f i a ........do... Spirfdie hours operated, aSS fibers,, total .„. .mi S SIonsB Average per working d a y 8 . . , 8 . , . . . . . o . B O a a o 9 a e d o 8 0 e Consum i ng 100 percent cotton Beoeo.s.doao. 8 W o m e n 5 , m i s s e s 1 , juniors § outerwear, cuttings; COatS, or ,o * r.„ „ , ,„.,,«,u * , , , . « thous, units, ...,r ..dO... Dresses,, ........do... Suits,eo ..thous. doz„ Blouses, waists, and shirts... Skirts o a 4 ......do. a . 3 -636 1,263 472 9,903 TRANSPQRTATION EQUIPMENT Railroad equipment, American Ra 11 way Car Institute's Freight carsi Sh s pments.........................................number. Equipment manufacturers, tota!... s , < ,. 0 . 8 ,, 0 ,. e ,,„do.. s Railroad shops, domestic.........................do... New orders............................ Equipment manufacturers, total...... Railroad shops, domestic,.......... „do aa .do.. .do.. 4,329 2,673 1,656 3 565 2 ,956 609 r3,020 r2,986 •34 2,319 1,921 398 8 533 3 804 4 729 8,33} 6,726 1,605 Unfilled orders, end of month........ Equipment manufacturers, totaI.,... Railroad shops, domestic........... sdoOD 12,159 5,737 6,422 13,502 7 ,039 6 ,463 20,749 12,303 8,446 18,388 11,188 7,200 22 196 II 626 10 570 26,611 15,425 11,186 sdo„ffl .do S(8 r/ Revised® ±/ Data f o r 0ct@ 1962 and Oct. 1963 cover 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. USC0MM-DC--36I85 PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO A V O I D UNITED STATES 3QVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300 DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL BUSINESS FIRST CLASS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT OF CURRENT Digitized for SURVEY FRASER BUSINESS
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