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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS MENJOf c WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Available only with subscription to the monthly magazine SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS July 10, 1953 * * * * This Supplement provides selected weekly data and monthly data subsequent to those published in the latest monthly SURVEY .* * * * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1953 1952 1953 1952 ITFM 1TPM July 5 Commodity prices, wholesale: All commodities... 1947-49=100 *lll.2 Farm products do. . *I07.2 Foods, processed do. . *I08.5 A l 1 other do, . *l 12.6 96.7 22 commodities 2/ do. . Department store sales. .. .do. . **9I Federal Reserve bank credit, tota 1 m i l . do 1 . 24, 155 Federal Reserve reporting member banks in leading cities: Demand deposits, adjusted m i l . do! .**53,575 Loans (net) and investments, tota 1 m i l . do 1 . **76,344 U. S. Government obligat ions mi 1 . do 1 . **32,934 Commercial, industrial, and agricultural loans (gross) m i l . dol . **20,955 Real -estate loans (gross) mi 1 . dol . **5,806 June 20 109.3 95.5 103 2 1 13 5 86.4 June 27 109.6 95.2 103 2 1 14 0 86.8 94 26,656 25,776 54,981 53,454 76,640 76,065 29,528 29,21 1 22,985 22,797 6,293 6,304 July 4 July 5 Failures, industrial and comcnerc i a 1 . . , number 109.4 93.4 Bond yields, domestic corpopercent 102 Q rate (Moody *s) 3/. 1 14 1 Stock prices, 480 stocks (Standard and Poor's) 86.5 1935-39=100 1 ndus tr 1 a 1 s , 420 stocks 25,752 193^-39-100 Production: Bituminous coal 3/ thosjs. short tons Electric power, by u t i l i t i e s m i l . kw. ™hr. Motor vehicles (Ward's) number Petroleum crude 3/ thous bb 1 Steel 4/ 1947-49=100 Freight car load ings total thous. cars M i see 1 1 aneous ........... do. , \_l Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday prices. V D a i l y averages. 1952. ** For week ended June 28, 1952. June 20 June 27 July 4 131 167 195 169 3 i7 3 63 3 62 3 ~g 192.0 182 2 134 i IB*» 0 209 7 197 o J99 7 I9<5 Q ** 1 , 527 1,637 1,795 **7,3I8 8,329 8,446 ........ 79,986 158,490 162,924 130,046 **6,062 17 2 6,381 135.9 6,397 135 9 128 8 **646 **3I7 813 389 816 388 4/ Week ended July II, 132.8. * Monthly index for June MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1953 1952 ITEM June Apr! 1 May Prices rec'd by farmers, a l l farm products. ... 1910- I4« 100 Crops do. . Food grains,.. do.. Feed grains and hay do.. Tobacco do. . Cotton do . . # For May June June Apri 1 May June COMMODITY PRICES - Con. GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATORS Manufacturers' sales and inventories - vaiue (adj.): Sales, total. m i l . dol. #23,247 Durab le-goods .do. . #11,328 Nondurab le-goods do. . #1 1,918 Inventories, book value, end of month, tota 1 . . . .mi 1 . dol.#43, 144 Durab le-goods .do., #23,595 Nondurab le-goods do. . #19,550 Manufacturers' new orders, net (adj.), total ...mil. dol. #22,748 Durab le-goods , „ . do. . #10,956 Nondurab le-goods do. , #1 1,792 Manufacturers' unf i 1 led orders (unadj.), total .... .mi 1 . dol. #69,230 Durab le-goods do. . #66,309 Nondurab 1 e-goods do. . # 2,922 COMMODITY PRICES £/ Revised. 1953 1952 ITEM 292 277 238 226 437 319 r 26, 838 r 13,490 r 13,348 26,314 13,263 13,050 r44,574 r25, 122 r 19,452 45,048 25,42! 19,627 r25,708 r 12, 621 r 13,088 25,747 12,843 12,903 r72,432 r 69, 328 r3, 104 71,604 68,442 3,162 Prices rec'd by farmers - Con. Crops - Continued Fruits. .......... 1910-14=100 Truck crops ,„..,. do.. Oil-bearing crops. ..... .do. . Livestock and products. , .do. . Meat an i ma 1 s do .. Dairy products do.. Pou Itry and eggs. ...... .do. . Prices paid by farmers: A l l commodities do.. Used in l i v i n g do.. Used in production. do.. AN commodities, interest, taxes, and wage rates 1910-14=100 Parity ratio do.. 220 250 289 306 380 277 181 226 204 289 270 299 264 218 224 182 285 277 317 257 218 253 270 280 267 299 254 213 273 272 273 264 269 257 264 270 257 259 270 248 287 102 279 93 279 94 275 94 259 New construction, total m i l . do ( . 2,936 251 do.. 1,927 222 Private, total Residential ( nonfarm) . . .do. . 993 196 New d w e l l i n g units do.. 875 425 Additions, etc.. ,do.. 103 266 r2,7(2 r 1,831 r924 r8IO r94 r2,92i r 1,968 987 r360 r 105 3, 184 2,131 1,090 960 107 CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE 259 247 244 206 424 266 261 243 242 205 426 268 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued June Apri 1 ITEM June Mey May CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE r426 !93 1 13 r!20 r352 r88l r49 r366 rl 14 r200 r70 82 r45l r!92 r 129 r!38 r380 r953 r49 r37l rl 17 r260 r72 r84 r 123 3 !23 9 572 614 587 525 564 572 616 592 524 568 481 !88 152 148 399 1,053 50 377 i23 335 79 89 573 616 592 526 568 FINANCE Federal Government finance: Gross debt (direct), end of month ...... , ....... m i 1 . do I . 259, 105 interest bear ing, total. .do. . 256,863 219,124 Public issues.., do,. 37,739 Special issues ..do.. 2,242 Non i nterest bear 1 ng ..... do .. Obligations guaranteed by 46 U. S. Government. , .mi 1 . dol. Bonds (Stan. & Poor's Corp.): Dom. municipal (15 bonds), 130.9 price dol. per $100 bond Dom." municipal (15 bonds), yield , . , . . percent 2.10 Stocks: Dividend yields, preferred stocks, II high-grade (Stan. 4.04 & Poor's Corp ) .... per cent Pr i ces : Dow-Jones & Co., Inc. (65 104.26 stocks) .... .do i , per share 268.39 Industrial (30) do.. 49,8! Public uti 1 ity ( 15). .. ..do.. 100.30 Rai Iroad (20). do.. Standard and Poor's Ccvp * Combined index (480 stocks) S87.6 1 935-39*: 1 00 203 9 Industrial (420) do Public uti lity (40)... do.. 116.2 173.7 Rai Iroed (20) .do.. £/ Preiiminary. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 264,590 262,550 223,017 39,474 2,040 266,520 264,445 224,735 39,710 2,075 266,071 263,946 223,408 40,538 2, 125 52 52 52 121.5 ! 19.4 115. 1 2,63 2.73 2,99 4.33 4.38 4.47 107.52 275.28 51.59 104.05 190.0 205 5 121.5 173.3 # For May 1952. Apr i 1 May 108.07 276.84 50.97 105,58 189.6 205 2 120.8 174.2 104.42 266.88 48.66 103.09 182.8 197.5 1 16.8 169.3 Dairy products, production: Butter , creamery . . . . thous . 1 b134,980 ; Cheese (factory), 'total, .do. .' 139,160 Meats, production, total 1,476 mi 1. ib Beef and veal., thous. Ib, 610,297 45,306 Lamb and mutton do. . Pork, including lard. . . . .do. .820,518 Lard do. . 165,818 Coffee, v i s i b l e supply, United 756 States , thous . bags 122,895 105,935 134,330 1 19,915 155,660 149,720 1,712 779,450 58, 129 874,686 164,072 1,649 826,083 52,458 770,875 146,255 1,537 812,729 46,755 677,203 128, 166 700 634 51 1 329,294 353,972 268,548 294,960 252,400 295,393 !,549,2 i , 158^9 1, 109.0 BIO/i J2 5 6"? ,878 481,936 METALS AND MANUFACTURES Electrical appliances, domestic, sales b i 1 led: Vacuum cleaners, standard type , . number 216,969 219,882 Washers . do . Radio sets, production \J 84-3.6 thousands Television sets (incl. combination) production l/.nurnber 309,375 PETROLEUM, COAL, AND PRODUCTS Bi tumi nous coa 1 : Industrial consumption, total thous. short tons Retail deliveries do.. Stocks, industrial and retail dealers', end of month, total .... .thous. short tons Industrial, tota I do.. Retell dealers do.. 27,734 3,017 3!, 840 5,756 r30,05! 4,317 29,228 2,724 79,301 77,838 1,463 70,235 69,187 1,048 70,531 69,473 1,058 72,912 71,660 1,252 1,405.1 724.7 206.8 206.3 1.512.3 r 1,467.0 r783.6 810.9 200.2 203.4 202.0 206.0 1,514.8 812.9 201.4 208. 1 147,535 35,416 34,249 41,088 165,367 r!64,67l 42, 186 r4 1,427 40,609 36,738 34,740 33,052 173,013 41,965 42,354 37,271 PULP, PAPER, AND PRINTING Wood p u l p : Production, total, all grades thous. short tons Sulphate (paper grades). do.. Sulphite (paper grades). do.. Groundwood do. . Stocks, end of month, total, a l l grades short tons Sulphate (paper grades). do.. Sulphite (paper grades). do.. Groundwood do. . RUBBER AND RUBBER PRODUCTS Natural rubber: Consumpt i on long tons Stocks, ©nd of month do.. Synthetic rubber : Consumption Stocks, end of month do. . do.. 36,347 63,988 50,707 98,627 r49,375 r 108, 892 46,862 113,496 61,368 67,339 154,339 81,408 77,903 116,089 82,952 r77,22l r 122, 041 85,302 72,309 132,066 \J Data for March 1953 cover 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, S300 FIRST CLASS WASHINGTON 25, D, C OFFICIAL BUSINESS Permit-No. 1009 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS March FOODSTUFFS New construction - Continued Private - Continued Nonresident Ial b u i l d i n g , total, exc. farm and pubr405 He utH ity m i l . dol . ! ndustr ial, « . . , do, . r 183 r93 Comn&rc i a l do .. Farm construction.. do.. rl62 359 Public utility..,.. do.. Pub lie, tota 1 . , do . . r 1,009 r53 R0s I dent i a I ...... do , . r357 Nonresident i a l bui Id ing. do.* r!25 Military and naval do.. r3!3 H i gh#ay do . . 76 Conservation, etc ..do.. 85 Other types. do. . Construction cost indexes: Department of Commerce, com#1 19 7 posite I947~49»i00 The American Appraisal Co.: 550 Avg. 30 cities 1913*100 588 At 1 anta ...... do . . 554 New York , , do . . 504 San Franc i sco do. . 544 St. Louis.... do.. £/ Revised. 1953 1952 1953 1952 ITEM
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