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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Available only with subscription to the monthly magazine SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS * * * * This Supplement provides selected weekly data and monthly data subsequent to July 17, 1933 published in the latesl monthly SURVEY f . * * * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1953 1952 1 TF"M July '12 Commodity prices, wholesale: A l l commodities.. . 1947-49=100 Farm products. . . . .do. . Foods, processed do.. A l 1 other. do. . 22 commodities 2/ do. . Department store sales. ,. .do. . Failures, ind. & comm. . .number Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody 's) 3/ percent Stock prices (480), Standard and Poor's. . 1935-39-100 Industrials (420) ....... .do. . 1953 1952 ITEM June 27 July 4 *l 1 1.2 *IQ7.2 *I08.5 *l 12,6 96.8 **79 156 109.6 95.2 103.2 1 14 0 86.8 94 S95 109.4 93.4 102.9 1 14 1 86.5 80 169 3, 17 3 62 3 59 190 8 208. 1 184 1 199.2 !85 0 199.8 _[/ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 1952. ** For week ended July 5, 1952. July I I July 12 Production: Bituminous coal V thous. short tons **l, 1 16 Electric power, by u t i l i t i e s rni 1 kw -hr **6 478 Motor vehicles (Ward's) number 61 67 1 Petroleum, crude 3/ 139 thous b b l . **6,OI ! 3 57 Steel 4/ 18 4 1947-49=100 Freight car load ings, total *#448 187 1 thous cars 202. 1 Mi see i laneous do.. **258 109.7 95.2 102.7 1 14 2 87. 1 2/ Tuesday prices. J3/ D a i l y averages. June 27 July 4 1,788 1,580 8,446 7,970 162 924 132 005 156 662 6,397 135 9 6;363 128 8 130 2 8i8 388 670 364 July I I 4/ Week ended July 18, 135,0. * Monthly index for June MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS I 1953 1952 1553 1952 ITEM ITEM June GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATORS Farm income and marketings: Cash receipts from farming, inc.Gov't payra' ts. . .mi 1 .dol . #2, 176 Farm marketings and CCC loans, tota 1 do. #2, 142 Crops .do #573 Livestock and products, total mi 1. dol. #1,569 #433 Dairy products do.. Meat an 1 ma 1 s do . . #825 Poultry and eggs do.. #272 Indexes of cash receipts from marketings, etc. I/ 1935-39=100 #323 Crops do. . #202 #413 Livestock and products. .do. . Indexes, volume of farm #123 marketings, etc do . Crops do . #68 Livestock and products. .do. . #164 COMMODITY PRICES Retail price (Dept. Comm.): A l l commodities. .. 1935- 39« 100 #210.3 Wholesale p., selected items; Butter, 92-score (N.Y.) 0.690 dol. per Ib. Eggs, extras, large (Chicago) do 1 . per doz . .404 1.763 Corn,av.5 markets. .dol .per bu. Wheat, av. 6 markets do.. 2.350 Beef steers (Chicago) 32.22 dol, per 100 Ib Hogs CCh 1 cago) do . . 19.25 .540 Beef, good (N.Y.). dol. per Ib. Pork, loins (N.Y.) . . :do. . .535 Pig iron,comp. . .dol .per l.ton 53.81 Apri 1 May 1,934 1,979 1,897 522 1,945 520 1,375 365 692 302 COMMODITY PRICES - Cont'd Wholesale prices - Cont'd Steel, composite, finished do I per 1 b 047 1 Copper, electro. (N.Y.) do. . .2420 Lead refined pig desilverized ( N Y ) dol per Ib 1526 Zinc, prime W. (St. Louis) . .do. . .1574 Wool, raw (Boston) do 2/1 600 1,425 407 673 318 286 r!84 362 293 184 375 1 18 68 r!56 122 70 161 207.9 208.3 June June Apri 1 May June 0498 .2990 0501 .2968 l?fift . 1 100 1 737 197*5 i «AI .1100 j 7.52 .1100 7/1 74.8 1,473.2 1,033.8 1,318. 1 401 402 41 1 126 1 r 130 0 r 126 1 r 130 9 128 7 133 4 r 14,269 r5, 1 13 r9, 156 r2 1,656 r 10,396 rl !,260 14,450 5, 128 9,322 2 1 , 739 10,422 1 1,317 05 13 .2969 CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE Contract awards (ENR) t Engineering construction, value 3/ ml 1. dol. 1 ,140. 7 Construction cost Indexes! Associated General Contract' ors ( a l l types) 1913=100 382 Engineer! no News— Record* 4/ Building I947-49»IOO 122 6 Construction do 126 0 DOMESTIC TRADE 0.659 .658 .656 .497 1.557 2.529 .486 1.578 2.530 .517 1.522 2.265 21.50 21.88 .382 .523 54.73 21.83 23.54 .385 .567 54.73 21.73 23.24 .387 .576 54.80 A l 1 retai 1 stores" Sales (adj.), total. .mil. dol. #13,850 Durable-goods do. . ' #4,927 Nondurab le-goods .do. . #8,923 Inventories (adj.) , total .do. . #20,069 Durab le-goods do, . #9, 1 12 Nondurab le-goods do. . #10,957 Firms with 1 1 or more stores estimated sales: Unadjusted m i l . dol. #2,586 Adjusted do #2 475 Dept. store sales, U.S. total: Unadjusted index. . 1947-49*100 105 Adjusted index do.. III r2,546 r2 579 2 634 2619 104 107 pi 14 pM5 p!09 p i 16 £/ Revised. £/ Preliminary. # For May 1952. J./ Unadjusted, 2/ Nominal price. ,37 Date for April |are for 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. 4/ Data reported at the beginning of each month are shown here for the previous month. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 1953 1952 ITEM June Apr! 1 May ITEM June EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES 64,390 62,572 8, 170 54,402 1,818 64,734 63, 172 7,926 55,246 1,562 62,810 61,228 6,070 55, 158 1,582 62,964 61,658 6,390 55,268 1,306 145,641 52,038 32,742 142, 173 50,255 32,283 74,686 67,035 75,063 67,330 93.25 91.59 3.40 3.23 3.29 3.44 3.65 3.27 3.44 3.51 2.97 3.53 3.34 3.41 3.58 3.78 3.39 3.57 3.63 3.09 3.98 4. 17 1.96 3.01 2.89 3.09 3.98 4. 17 1.98 3.01 2.89 3.09 5.50 5.52 5.30 6.21 4.60 3.41 5.51 5.53 5.34 6. 15 4.72 3.41 5.58 5.60 5.58 6.26 4.75 3.50 2,957 455 55 179 166 3,883 626 71 217 215 41 438 346 1 929 3,204 540 56 186 219 79 369 268 1 537 FINANCE Bank debits, total (345 centers) m i l . doJ . #133,032 #48,830 New York City do.. #27,974 6 other centers do. . Life insurance, assets (Institute of Life Ins.): A 1 1 cos , est tota 1 . m i l . do 1 . #69 959 Securities & mortgages .do.. #62 789 Bonds: Price, U. S. Treasury 98.32 dol . per $100 bond Yields: 3. 17 Dom.corp. (Moody 's) . . .percent 2.94 By ratings: Aaa do.. 3.03 Aa do. . 3.20 A do.. 3.50 Baa do. . 2.98 By groups: Industrial .do. . 3.20 Pub. uti 1 . .do. . 3.32 Rai Iroad. . .do. . U. S. Treasury do.. 2.6-1 Stocks: Dividend rate per share: 3.96 Common (200) , Moodyf s. dol lars 4.22 Industrial (125) do.. P u b l i c uti 1 ity (24) do.. 1.91 2.69 Rai Iroad (25) do. . 2.64 Banks (15) do. . 2.88 Insurance (10) do.. Dividend yields: Common (200) , Moody 's. percent 5.45 5.48 Industrial (125) do.. 5.51 P u b l i c uti lity (24) do. . 5.64 Rai Iroad (25) do. . 4.56 Banks (15) do. . 3. 18 Insurance (10) do.. TRANSPORTATION Freight carload (A A.R ): I/ Total cars thousands Coa 1 do. . Coke do. . Forest products do. . Grain and grain prod.... do.. Livestock . do Ore . do. . .. ' £_/ Revised. '" £/ P r e l i m i n a r y . 2,606 478 22 179 231 2^ 96 277 1 298 # For May 1952. "V) 245 281 1 544 WASHINGTON 25, D. C. FIRST CLASS OFFICIAL BUSINESS Penult No. 1009 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS Apr! 1 June Shoes & slippers, production tota 1 thous . pa i rs #41,436 Shoes, etc., exc. athletic, total thous pairs #37 248 Men's do. . #8,462 Youths ' and boys ' do. . # I , 492 Women ' s do. . #18,973 Misses' and chi Idren ' s. .do. . #5, 168 Infants' and babies '... .do. . #3, 153 S l i p p e r s for housewear . . .do. . #3,626 Athletic do. . #209 Other footwear do.. #353 LUMBER AND MANUFACTURES 44,968 41,858 40 193 8,979 1,474 20, 765 5,436 3,539 4,271 279 225 36 979 8,532 1,574 18,490 5, 139 3,247 4,375 280 224 #3 070 #2,466 #3,048 #2,444 3 516 2,858 3,582 2,780 3,200 2,657 3,306 2,605 #7,960 #4,885 8,094 5,292 7,955 5,31 1 2,487 8,404 13,597 13,745 77,463 47,265 35,769 63,342 80,459 86,043 78,21 1 94,280 82,422 84,250 75,648 92,452 81,617 76,784 72,612 97,285 #3,349 #36,462 1,987 37,025 2,783 37,390 RUBBER AND RUBBER PRODUCTS Tires and tubes: Pneumatic casings: #7,429 Production ..thousands #7,442 Shipments do. . #2,718 Or i Q i na 1 eou i pment do #13,263 Stocks end of month do Inner tubes: #r5,793 Production • do . #r5,348 Shipments do Stocks, end of month. . . .do. . #1 1,493 9,262 8,913 3,798 16,872 8,987 8,942 3,200 16,973 7 544 r6 760 12, 155 6,940 6,586 12,592 2 1 , 802 20,891 24 776 9 556 23,399 22,924 25,248 9,215 Lumber (NLMA): Prod tota 1 mi 1 bd ft Softwoods do Shipments, total .. .do. Softwoods do 91.56 Stocks, gross, end of month, tota 1 mi 1 bd ft 3.61 Softwoods do. . 3.40 3.50 METALS AND MANUFACTURES 3.67 3.86 Iron ore (Lake Superior dis.): 3.48 Shipments from upper lake 3.62 ports thous. 1 . tons 3.73 Zinc, slab: 3.09 Production .. ..sh. tons Shipments, total do.. Domestic do. . 3.97 Stocks, end of month do.. 4. 16 PETROLEUM, COAL, AND PRODUCTS 2.01 3.03 Coal, production: 2.89 Anthracite thous sh tons 3.09 B i turn i nous . do. . STONE, CLAY, & GLASS PRODUCTS Portland cement: Prodnr+ion . . thous. bb 1 Shipments. do. . Stocks f i n i shed do Stocks c 1 i nker do #2 1 , 829 #23,282 #23 220 #9513 J./ Data for May 1953 are for 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1953 May LEATHER AND PRODUCTS Labor force (Bureau Census) : C i v i l i a n labor force. .. .thous. Emp 1 oyed do . . Agricultural do Nonagr icu Itura 1 do. . . 1952 June PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, ,300
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