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January 30, 1959 STATISTICS BUSINESS A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS Available only with subscriptfon to the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, at $4.00 annually, this Supplement provides selected weekly and monthly data subsequent t o those published in t h e latest monthly SURVEY SELECTED BUSINESS INDICATORS Index, 1941-43 = 10 70 PR1CES OF 425, INDUSTRIAL STOCKS Index, S94I - 4 3 * 10 70 Monthly Weekly (Wednesday close) A SO 6© 50 h 1958 40 30 30 h 20 [v i i i i i I i t i i i 1 i i i i 1955 i I i i i i i 1 i i S956 i i i- 1 i i i i i I i i » i 1957 i I i i i i t I i \ t ) 1 I J F M A M J J 1958 I 20 I A S O h J D i n d e x , 1 9 4 7 - 4 9 = 100 Index, 1947-49= 100 175 175 STEEL PRODUCTION (Ingots and steel for castings) 150 A .150 S25 125 too 100 75 Li-_1_LJ_L_J„ S955 1957 1956 Index, 1 9 4 7 - 4 9 = 100 125 CONSUMER PRICES fV~"\ 120 All Items ^ g ^ ^ J F M A M J J A S O N D 1958 Index, 1 9 4 7 - 4 9 = 100 120 FREIGHT CARLOADINGS* \i ISO I (seasonally adjusted) T ^^^ \ / I 15 V f 10 f— 105 U J ^ U j J j J J J L J L - L L J - L l l j U J U J , JJLLJLJ-LLI I i i- 1 1 1 1 L1L LiU1U ^a ^ f 1955 A Foo S956 A / S957 1958 1955 1956 1957 WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 2 1959 1958 ITEM Jan. 3 Jan. 25 Jan. 18 Jan. 17 Jan. 10 Jan. 24 Commodity prices, wholesale: 85.6 104 ••3,221 2,602 169 119.3 91.6 108.4 127.3 85.6 121 ••3,216 2,599 321 119.4 91.5 109.0 127.3 85.2 116 119.6 92.3 109.2 127.4 85.3 294 296 30,878 24,949 19,216 592 32,456 28,910 19,167 672 32,008 28,275 19,131 575 31,710 27,708 18,901 564 31,385 27,368 18,769 506 56,556 24,592 86,521 25,86! 30,857 8,753 4.02 | 41.20 44.03 59,045 28,392 96,574 3!,894 31,418 9,601 4.40 55.2! 58.97 58,749 28,253 95,449 31,524 30,825 9,610 4.40 54.89 58.51 58,693 28,286 94,694 31,266 30,666 9,635 4.41 55*62 59.25 4.41 56.04 59.75 1,407 12,400 129,064 6,925 1,381 12,399 126,639 6,923 1,403 12,364 111,519 7,122 1,366 13,554 156,051 7,052 1,382 13,324 158,709 7,087 1,538 57.0 573 287 1,496 55.4 551 274 2,058 76.2 468 244 2,085 #73.6 550 279 2,111 #74.6 586 300 ••••••••«• Department store sales « •118.9 •93.7 •109.5 •126.1 85.4 100 3,084 2,895 333 31,207 25,390 19,348 579 56,532 24,500 87,018 25,945 31,361 8,747 84.6 110 3,035 2,850 260 ...do.... Finance: Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total 3/ do.... Reporting member banks (of F.R.System) in leading cities: 47 Commercial, industrial, and agr. loans (gross)....do.... 4.09 40.99 43.84 Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's) 4/***1941-43=10.8 Productions 159,411 2,056 #72.6 J/ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday prices. 3/ Daily average. 4/ Wednesday data. 5/ Week beginning January 26, 1959: Production, 2,212 thous. short tons; operating rate, 78.1 percent. • Monthly index for January 1958. ** Includes persons reported under temporary programs (TUC) and under Ex-Servicemen's Unemployment Compensation Act of 1958 (UCX); persons under TUC were excluded prior to this issue of Weekly Business Statistics. # Beginning January 5, 1959, rate is based on January I, 1959, annual capacity (147,633,670 tons); not comparable with earlier rates which are based on January I, 1958, annual capacity (140,742,570 tons). MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1957 ITEM November 1 December 1958 September October November December COMMODITY PRICES Consumer price index: .1947-49-100.. do.... do.... do.... do.... 121.6 107.9 116.0 114.5 114.6 104.6 121.6 107.6 116. 1 114.6 113.9 106.0 123.7 107.1 120.3 114. 1 120.7 115.8 123.7 107.3 119.7 114.5 121.0 114.6 123.9 107.7 119.4 114.5 121. 1 113.5 •123.7 107.5 118.7 114.3 120.1 113.0 126.8 114.3 104.5 136.3 127.0 114.3 104.9 136.7 127.9 118.0 103.6 138.2 127.9 118.1 103.4 138.3 128.0 118. 1 103.5 138.4 128.2 118.2 103.6 138.7 140.3 126.7 114.4 140.8 127.0 114.6 | 146.1 128.7 116.6 146.7 128.8 116.6 147.0 129.1 117.0 147.3 129.0 116.9 140.0 129.7 182.8 126.8 138.9 128.6 182.4 126.8 141.3 130.4 189.8 127.1 142.7 131.8 190.4 127.2 144.5 133.6 191.1 127.3 144.3 133.3 191.8 127.3 84.7 82.2 84.4 82.2 84.0 80.8 84.0 80.8 83.9 80.7 ••83.9 ••80.8 3,339 1,919 454 3,784 2,036 473 3,802 2,052 507 1,243 Purchasing power of the dollar as measured by— do.... FINANCE Agricultural loans and discounts outstanding of agencies supervised by the Farm Credit Adm.: ».mi1. of dol.. Farm mortgage loans: Federal land banks... .••••••••do.... 1 3,329 1,908 452 969 I 966 1 1,275 3,791 2,065 526 1,199 1 3,812 2,089 510 1,214 £/ Revised. • Index based on 1935-39=* 100 is 206.8. *» Indexes based on I935-39»IO0 are as follows: Measured by—wholesale prices, 43.9; consumer prices, 48.4. http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ 9241 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 3 1957 1958 ITEM November September December October November December FINANCE - Contlimed Federal Government finance: 5,797 4,827 67 3,512 367 740 1,111 6,611 5,956 63 2,477 2,277 432 1,363 8,119 7,208 75 3,909 2,267 549 1,320 3,446 2,769 82 1,387 374 ! 386 1,217 5,979 4,962 72 3,735 319 816 1,038 5,806 636 5,169 5,809 674 5,136 6,633 578 6,056 7,144 600 6,544 6,237 607 5,629 47,259 85,266 1,774 9,936 48,829 86,675 2,034 9,729 53,644 90,452 1,456 8,520 r54,087 89,683 1,990 11,152 57,309 79,908 1,745 8,620 of lb». do.... do.... ....do.... 9,0J7 9,002 106,358 117,081 8,870 9,074 103,997 104,466 12,291 9,654 89,410 134,494 12,745 8,681 99,042 148,011 12,085 9,121 83,686 135,867 thous. of gal.. •••••••••••••• .thous. of lb., Synthetic plastics and resin materials, product ion: Cellulose acetate and mixed ester plastics: .thous. of lb.. 134 17,747 31,23! 148 19,588 31,913 149 20,151 25,300 135 21,698 27,570 113 21,295 28,844 3,653 7,624 344 339 3,885 7,778 259 360 •3,947 •8,215 •3,717 * 10,035 •3,475 •8,542 * * • 223 271 227 do.... 37,769 47,811 22,926 71,535 34,379 45,903 23,094 66,458 39,900 55,257 28,302 82,133 46,205 r58,823 r30,108 88,551 43,786 62,560 27,692 85,649 do.... do.... do.... do.... 24,937 9,097 6,589 62,936 24,059 7,590 6,546 68,510 30,375 10,665 8,730 75,252 r32,558 11,327 12,433 79,309 26,262 10,382 9,246 78,666 . of wine gal.. do.... do.... 178 329 1,722 218 308 r1,608 113 212 2,124 201 306 1,986 185 353 1,795 r12,806 12,476 r203,972 r25,226 r3,730 r 12,333 r190,763 r5,549 47,185 12,668 145,116 115,853 78,613 13,945 209,363 154,877 15,228 12,631 212,516 35,661 726,744 411,510 147,394 627,447 623,570 1,757 617,197 114,576 72,428 786,372 782,586 1,880 104,141 593,578 229,523 876,505 868,846 691 664,528 402,904 135,314 786,725 778,259 1,040 884,734 297,890 120,859 624,045 624,110 1,695 786 2,059 1,609 1,954 785 1,953 1,668 1,757 600 2,020 1,499 2,243 699 r2,324 1,823 r2,504 644 2,039 1,517 2,352 5,711 5,213 5,041 5,836 5,907 940 67,904 127,115 864 60,425 120,787 917 56,836 85,277 993 60,981 95,389 p950 p63,384 p84,122 35.15 30.80 59.75 51.60 3.1 24.85 20.05 70.10 63.25 2.8 28.10 24.65 34.90 29.65 37.00 32.00 41.40 35.90 3.0 r30.70 r26.85 r33.65 r27.45 3.0 do.... do.... do.... do...* 6,848 6,180 78 2,512 2>4I9 441 1,397 7,080 647 6,433 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS Organic chemicals, production: .thous. of lb.. ....do.... thous. of gal.. DDT Ethyl acetate (852) #th©us. . Methanol: Natural (\0Q%) Synthetic (100£)...». do.... do.... FOODSTUFFS Wines and distil 1ing materials: Effervescent wines: Sti11 wines: do.... Distilling materials produced at wineries.... Sugar, U. S., deliveries and supply (raw value) do.... do.... do.... do.... Stocks, raw and refined, end of mo....thous. of short tons.. 185,854 70,256 p822,4!4 pi,873 LEATHER AND PRODUCTS Leather production: ous. of skins*, Cattle hide and side kip..........thous. of h ides and kips., Goat and kid.. a.„..tli ous. of skins.. do.... METALS AND MANUFACTURES Pig iron, production (excl. blast furnace produ ction of ferroof short tons.. Castings, shipments: do.... ...short tons.. 6,025 Machine tools (meta1-cutting and metal-forming) do.... do.... do.... 1 2.9 p42.95 p33.80 p42.85 p36.90 p3.2 r/ Revised, j)/ Preliminary, • Effective May 1958, data for "other cellulose plastics" are combined with sheets, etc., and molding and extrusion materials. 9241 4 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 1957 1958 ITEM November December September November October December PAPER AND PRINTING Newsprint, Canada (Including Newfoundland)t Production....•••••••••••••••••••••....thous. of short tons.. 504.9 520.5 168.6 435.3 471.4 132.5 490.8 495.3 223.3 544e! 555 J 212.3 518.1 527e 7 202.7 476.2 494 . 3 184*7 140.4 143.1 15.7 453.0 722.9 138.7 135.1 19.3 436.3 675.0 137.2 139.7 22*6 413.0 697.2 154.8 158.7 18.6 470.0 655.3 152.6 150.6 20.6 144*7 §48.8 16.5 394 . 3 651.7 1,336 780 5,616 1,392 624 4,944 1,328 704 4,720 1,750 775 5,455 4,884 200 336 136 264 256 320 310 385 256 296 651,599 569,873 647,894 833,366 672,838 727,410 19,767 18, 133 8,984 449 8,231 r19,727 18,144 r7,960 398 7,309 19,251 17,641 .8,870 444 8,190 19,279 17,650 1 1,447 458 10,496 19,269 17,61! 9,180 19,276 17,616 10,427 459 417 8,389 9,453 6,507 3,802 3,469 2,705 r2,296 rl,153 r1,055 1,143 rl,8l1 r759 r606 1,052 r2,256 rl,3l9 r905 2,763 1,584 1,442 Railroad and private-line shops, domestic.<,.......do.... 7,260 4,033 3,915 3,227 937 1,179 Railroad and private-line shops, domestic.........do.... 1,088 975 955 113 3,467 3,088 3,064 379 ! r1,670 r1,628 r1,543 42 r666 r606 r606 60 6,525 4,628 4,398 1,897 3,830 2,028 2,028 1,802 60,238 25,442 24,398 34,796 56,676 24,496 I 23,761 32,180 25,524 5,221 4,679 20,303 24,059 4,648 4,259 19,411 28,167 7,996 7,791 20,171 27,659 8,467 8,404 19,192 3 3 52 46 10 10 43 37 4 4 44 38 8 2 36 36 ^ nipmenTS irons n)i 1 iS<s,®®&Q@&Ot,@0ei®@®®e,®®&el<i>®®e,&a®®®®ei®& o © a © a0 Stocks at mills,, end of m o R t h ^ ^ o ^ o o ^ ^ o ^ ^ ^ t x o e o . d o ^ ^ Newsprint, United Statess r r O Q u C T 1 O R ooKo©sos»oooo&ooofflooooo!SOffi«;®©ss<s<3ea©sQ©os©Go> Q O « o o o Shipments from ml 1 is«. e...ffi.. e e e s @ «»£,».. se8(eee(Ssl(5Seis,86 do. .a® Stocks at mills, end of month....,,,..««.....,»..........$©.... Consumption by pub 1ishers..............••••..••...•...do.... Stocks at and in transit to publishers, end of month.« do. *«,« 465 . 2 632 e 8 TEXTILE PRODUCTS Hen"s apparel, cuttings? J/ 2 / Tailored garments: Sylts 0 f f i e s o < s a e a e e e e < ! a i s S f f l 0 < s e e < > « S 9 @ . e @ o e e « e e s e thous a of units e » Coats (separate), dress and s p o r t e e e s e e s e @ s e @ e 8 9 > 9 a e < 8 d o a s e a Trousers (separate), dress and sport...•••••••..••••.do.... Work clothingj Dungarees and waistband overal ls...........thous. of doz„. 1,560 824 pi,710 p820 p4,145 pl85' p320 Cottons ±/ L>OSn) S U Flip T 1 O n © # e ® « « © © ® o © e a . © « e e ® . © © ® e 0 © s ® a © « © e © © © ® ® o # © e 0 ® I ® S . . Manufactures : Spindle activity (cotton system spindles); Active spindles, last working day............thousands.. Consuming S00 percent cotton.......-e<B.0.eo..eoa.do.... Spindle hours operated, all fibers, total ...srsi le of hr„e Average per working day.......................do.... Consuming 100 percent cotton.••••••••••••••••••.do.... TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT Railway equipment, American Railway Car Institute: Freight cars? ShSpments, tot®L«..t«< « M^M^OOO*number.. Equipment manufacturers, total..••••••••••••••••••do.... Railroad and private-line shops, domestic do.... Passenger cars (equipment manufacturers): 5 5 S34 134 37 37 97 97 £/ Revised, JJ/ Preliminary. J/ Data for October and December S958 cover 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. 2/ SURVEY regarding comparability of November 1957 data with data for subsequent months. USC0MM-DC-924S PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO A V O I D PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL BUSINESS FIRST CLASS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT OF CURRENT Digitized forSURVEY FRASER See note in January 1959 BUSINESS
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