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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 July 24, 1953 * * # * This Supplement provides selected weekly dots and monthly data subsequent to those published in the latest monthly SURVEY * * * * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS ITEM J u l y 19 Commodity prices, wholesale: All commodities. .. 1947-49=100 Form products. . . . .do . Foods, processed. ...... .do. . A 1 1 other do 22 coninodities 2/ .... .do. Department store sa les. ,. .do. . Fa i lures, ind A comm number Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3/ percent Stock prices (480), Standard and Poor ' s . . 1 935-39- 1 00 Industrials (420) do 1953 1952 *l 1 1.8 *l 10 2 *l 10.0 *l 12 5 96 9 **83 103 July 4 79 169 ITEM July I I July 18 109.8 95 1 102.8 1 14 4 87. 1 92 139 1 10.4 97 4 104.5 1 14 5 87.9 3. 17 3.59 3.57 192 3 210 0 185 0 199 8 187, ! 202 1 July 19 Production: Bituminous coal 3/ thous. sh. tons **I,OI5 Electric power, by utilities mi 1 kw -hr **6,988 Motor vehicles (Ward's). ..no. 26,784 Petroleum, crude 3/ thous bbl. **5,984 148 Steel (ingots & for castings, quantity) 4/ I947-49«IOO 19.7 3.54 Freight car load ings, total thous. cars **572 184.7 **293 do 199 2 Miscellaneous J./ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday prices. 3/ Dally averages. 1952. ** For week ended July 12, 1952. MONTHLY Apr 5 1 May 1,317 7,915 132,005 8,096 156,280 6,363 6,396 128.8 130.2 670 364 721 349 166,627 132.9 1953 1952 June June April May June COMMODITY PRICES - Con. COMMODITY PRICES # For May 1952. 1,630 July 18 ITEM June £/ Revised. July I I BUSINESS STATISTICS ITEM Wholesale prices ( Dept. Labor ): All commodities. .. 1947-49=100 Farm products do, . Fruits and vegetab les. .do. . Gra ins do . . Livestock, 1 ive poultry. do.. Foods, processed do. . Cereals & bakery prod.. do.. Dairy prod.& ice cream. do.. Fruits and vegetab les. .do. . Meats, poultry, 4 fish..., do.. Commodities other than farm prod. & foods.. 1947-49=100 Chemicals, etc do.. Chemicals, indust do.. Drugs, etc .do. . Fats and o i l s .do. . Fertilizer mater i a Is. .do. . Paint, etc do.. Fuel, power, etc do.. Coa 1 do . . Electricity do.. Gas do . . Petro leum & prod do. . Furniture, etc do.. App 1 iances, household, .do. . Furniture, household. . .do. . Rad i os do. . Television sets do.. Hides, skins, etc do.. Footwear do. . Hides and skins do.. Leather do . . Lumber & wood prod do.. Lumber do. . Machinery, mot ive prod.. do.. Agri. machinery, etc. .do.. Construction mach do. . July 4 4/ Week ended July 25, 135.9. * Monthly index for July 1953 1952 1953 1952 III. 2 107.2 124.2 95.4 107.2 108.5 106.7 MO. 1 103.5 110. 1 109.4 97.3 106.9 93.8 87.5 103.2 109.2 108.5 104.4 89.2 109.8 r97.8 M05.4 93.4 91.7 H04.3 109.0 107,9 r 104.0 93.8 1 12.6 104.3 114.9 92.2 52.0 109.9 107.0 105.9 105.3 98.5 102.0 109.6 1 1 1.6 106.8 112.7 113.2 105.5 1 17.0 93.0 55.9 1 13.2 106.0 107.4 III. 2 98.0 109.5 109.3 113.9 108.0 113.8 94.9 74.9 97.9 III. 5 66.4 92.7 122.2 121.5 122.0 122.3 128.6 rl 13.6 M05.5 MI8.0 93.1 r49.9 1 12.9 106.1 r!07. 1 110.8 r97.4 M08.2 109.4 1 14. 1 108.1 114.0 94.9 74.9 rlOO.4 III. 5 74.8 97.3 M2I.8 M2I.O M22.4 122.4 r 129.1 *95!9 ur.o 59.5 88.9 119.9 120.1 121.3 121.5 125.4 Wholesale prices - Con. Machinery, mot ive prod. - Con. 109.4 120.0 E iec. mach., etc.. J 947-49.100 95.3 1 19.7 Motor vehicles 109.9 ..do.. 121. 1 Metals & metal prod... ..do.. 83.8 Heating equipment.... ..do.. 113.5 86.8 122.4 103.3 ..do.. Iron and steel 120.0 Nonferrous metals.... ..do.. 107.9 Nonmetollic minerals, 107.7 113.8 structural 103.7 ..do.. 121.4 Clay products ..do.. 91.6 1 12.4 Concrete products.... ..do.. 117.7 113.8 Gypsum products ..do.. 116.7 Pulp, paper, etc ..do.. 105.7 . .do. . 124.2 Paper .. 119.2 133.4 Rubber and products do.. 93.1 130.5 Tires and tubes , .do. . 46.6 99.0 Textile prod., etc. . . . . .do,. . 110.6 100.3 106.1 Apparel .do. . 95.4 Cotton products do. . 107.6 129.8 S i l k products do . . . III. 2 88.6 Synthetic texti les. . . . .do. . 97.4 112.8 Wool products.... do.. 108.2 110.3 Tobacco manufactures and 112.0 114.2 bott l«d b*v 1947-49- 100 110.5 108.1 Beverages, alcohol ic. . .do. . 112.0 113.9 Cigarettes do. . 95.3 DOMESTIC TRADE 74.9 100.8 Newspaper advertising: Linage, total (52 cities) III. 7 thous. lines #225,606 75.1 #56,670 Classified 98.0 r ...do.. Display, total do. . #168,936 121.6. #10,457 Automotive -.".., do. . 120:8 #2,684 Financial .do. . 122.8 n #33,444 Genera 1 ^ 122.5 #122,352 Reta i 1 . . . . . .do. . 129.4 121.3 118.9 125.0 113.8 127.7 128.2 r 122.6 MI8.6 M25.7 1 14.4 M28.9 126.6 124.0 118.6 126.8 1 14.5 130.7 127.6 116.9 124.6 114.2 122. 1 115.3 124.9 124.8 126.3 97.4 99.9 92.9 131.6 88.0 III. 3 r 1 17.2 124.7 MI5.5 122. 1 115.4 124.9 r!25.4 126.3 97.6 r99.9 93.3 133.0 r87.4 rll2.0 1 17.9 125.2 1 15.5 122. 1 115.3 124.7 124.9 126.3 97.5 99.5 93.4 134.7 87.5 1 1 1.6 114.8 I'lO.O 124.0 1 14.8 110.0 124.0 ! 14.9 110.0 124,0 233,487 58, 194 175,292 r 12, 535 2,910 35,090 124,758 244,446 62,385 182,061 13,493 2,549 36,191 129,828 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued I TCM June DOMESTIC TRADE - Con. Magazine advertising: #60 016 Cost total thous dot Apparel & accessories do #4 735 Automotive inc acces do #5 237 #3,296 Bu i 1 d i ng mater i a 1 s do #6 166 Druos & to i letries do Foods, soft dr i nks,etc. . do. . #6,742 #2,619 Beer wine, liquors do #5 004 Household eauip etc do #3 867 Household furnishings do #4,016 Industrial materials do Soaps, cleansers, etc... do # 1 , 376 Smok i ng mater i a 1 s do . . # 1 , 395 A l 1 other do. . #15,564 Linaoe total thous 1 ines 3 213 tota 1 thous. dol . Automotive, Inc. acces.. do.. Drugs & toi letries do Elec. household equip, do. F i nanc i a 1 do. . Foods, soft dr inks, etc. .do. . Gasoline & o i l . ... ..do.. Soap cleansers etc do Smok i ng mater 5 a 1 s do A 1 1 other . do 053 !952 | Apri 1 May 65,525 4 593 6 135 3,832 6 425 8,230 2,625 5 614 4 178 4,079 1,71 1 1,260 16,844 4 699 67,606 5 536 6 400 4,340 6 572 7,831 2,630 5 561 3 791 3,996 1,940 1,700 17,308 4 445 r 14, 160 r508 4,268 385 223 3,582 402 1 331 1 ,415 2,044 14,014 51 1 4,238 377 236 3,520 372 1 238 1,420 2, 101 48,939 50,558 50,389 23,551 22 906 22 143 48 939 20 559 19,381 -192 24,826 48.8 25,546 23 880 2 1 383 50 558 21 055 19,740 351 25,598 45.8 25,589 24 246 2| 356 50 389 20,976 20,069 806 25,671 45.8 10 220 9,796 45 9,147 845 6,930 1,518 3,683 4 044 2,849 54 3,021 880 6,362 372 3,891 5 140 4,380 51 3,998 922 6,241 179 3,746 Cost of f ac i 1 i 1 1 es #13,970 #370 #3, 885 #153 #365 #3,734 #424 #1 698 # 1 , 546 #1,795 FINANCE Federal Reserve banks, condition end of month* Assets, total m i l . dol. Reserve bank credit outstanding, total... m i l . dol. '. ... *" , • b - i -A. t t 1 d Deposits do Member bank res. bal...do. . Excess reserves, est..do.. FR notes in circu lat. . .do. . Reserve ratio percent Federal Government finance: Receipts Treasury mi 1 dol Receipts, net do.. Customs do. . Income & emp 1 . taxes. .. .do. . Mi seel, internal rev.... do. . Expenditures, total do.. Interest on debt do.. National defense, etc... do. . Bonds: Price (S&PCorp.): lnd.,uti !.,& RR XAI+ is.): Composite (17 bonds) dol. per $100 bond Yields: U S Treasury percent r 1 16. 1 II 1.7 109.8 2.61 2.97 3.09 June 1953 1952 ITEM Apri 1 June FINANCE - Con. Stocks: Czish dividend payments: Total (pub. reported) .mi 1 .dol . 1,178.1 80.9 F i nance do. . 761.4 Manuf actur i ng do. . 89.7 Mining do . . 43.0 Communications do. . 76.5 Heat, light, & power... do.. 56.0 Ra i Iroad do. . 45.7 Trade do. . 24.9 Mi see 1 laneous do. . FOODSTUFFS Livestock slaughter: 392.3 m i l . animals 3 360 Calves 965.5 Catt le . do. . Hogs do. . 4,259.0 925.6 Sheep and Imnbs do.. Stocks, cold storage, end mo.: Apples, fresh thous. bu. 282 68,616 Butter, creamery. .. .thous. Ib. Cheese , tota 1 do . . 217,604 580,264 Fruits, frozen do.. 336,911 Vegetables, frozen do.. 3,357 Eggs: S h e l l thous. cases Frozen thous. Ib. 166,419 Meats, total I/ mi 1 . Ib. 1,029.3 Beef and veal do.. 201.5 14.9 Lamb and mutton do . . 685.0 Pork, excluding lard.... do.. 174.0 Pou 1 try do. . 50,243 LEATHER 25,414 Leather production: thous skins #702 24 718 Calf and kip #1 88! thous hides 21 286 Cattle hide thous skins #2,322 50 243 Goat and kid #2,292 Sheep and lamb do.. 20,396 19,561 METALS p40 25,831 Steel ingots and steel for castings: 46.0 1,640 Production. .. .thous. sh. tons 18 Percent of capacity 10 323 9,744 TEXTILE PRODUCTS 51 9,179 Cotton: 2/ 939 Consumption 674,773 ,. . bales 7,988 Manufactures : 1,882 S p i n d l e activity: 4,056 Active spindles, last working day, total ..thous 20,770 Consum. I00# cotton. . .do. . 19,453 Spindle hours operated, a l l f i ber s , tota 1 m i l . hr . 8,700 108.8 Av. per working day.. do.. 435 8, 102 Consum. 1 00^ cotton ... do .. 3.09 1 17 Operations as % of capacity May June 561.2 103.5 190. 1 7.3 105.0 63.8 30.6 50. 1 10.8 221.5 49.0 100.4 2.6 1.0 51.8 3. 1 7.6 6.0 1,249.6 87.6 802.2 87.3 51. 1 94.6 56.4 49.0 21.4 540.9 1,371.4 4,324.7 1,099.5 503.7 1,345.0 3,642.6 1,014.7 586.0 1,450.3 3,607.4 1,055.3 3,278 149,876 262, 606 441,235 384,285 816 98,978 928.7 234.9 17.5 538.0 140.4 597 r 1 , 377 r 193, 609 253,003 373, 170 r3!3,276 r456,980 493,258 380,61 1 r36l,2l-7 1,523 rl,43l r 132, 294 159,683 741.0 r8!8.4 191.8 r2!0.3 14.0 r!4.7 407.4 r459.8 1 17.7 M23.5 r87l r2, 133 r2,979 r2,435 842 2, 128 2,928 2,618 9,546 99 9,997 100 9,419 97 905,071 747,789 741,929 21,259 19,926 2 1 , 377 20,013 12,353 501 11,608 137 10, 133 507 9,489 139 21,201 19,824 9,938 497 9,330 136 r/ Revised. £/ Preliminary. # For May 1952. _[/ Excluding lard. 2/ Data for consumption, spindle hours (total and consuming I00# cotton), and operating ratio for A p r i l cover 5 weeks; for other months, 4 weeks. 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