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March 1, 1968 BUSINESS STATISTICS A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS* U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE / OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Index, 1941-43 = Index, 1941-43=10 120 PRICES O F 4 2 5 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS 110 - -A 100 - 90 - 80 Monthy (avg. of daily close) j 70 j i i i. i i i i i i L L 1 1 l 1965 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i _.. 1 1966 i i i i 1967 i 1 i i i i i J 1968 F M A M J J A S O N D Data: Stand. & Poor's Corp. Thousands 350 Thousands lf400 M O T O R VEHICLE PRODUCTION l 2 0 0 _ (cars, trucks coaches; U.S. plants) _ f 1,000 800 \ - / 600 - 400 - 200 Monthly 0 ..1,1—1 U 1 1 1—1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1965 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1966 i i i i 1967 i 1 i i i i i J 1968 F M A M J J A S O N D Automobile Mfrs. Assn. Index, 1957-59 = 100 250 Index, 1957-59 = 100 250 R A W STEEL PRODUCTION (ingots and all other forms) - 200 150 100 Monthly 50 L_J 1 1 1 1 1 1 1965 1 1 1 - J 1 1 1 1 1 • 1966 • ' ' • 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1967 1 1 1 i i i i i i 1968 Data: Amer. Iron & Steel Inst. * Available only with subscription to the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, at $6.00 annually, this Supplement weekly and monthly data subsequent to those published in the latest monthly SURVEY provides selected 1 i i i i i J FMAMJ J A S O N D 2 WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1967 1968 ITEM Feb. 18 Feb. 25 Feb. 3 Feb. 10 Feb. 17 1957-59=100. 102.1 101.7 96.2 96.4 96.1 •••.mi I. $. do.•• 5,422 3,743 5,463 3,711 5,784 3,909 5,696 3,894 5,737 3,933 INITIAL UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, State programs thous. INSURED UNEMPLOYMENT, all programs do... State programs (50 States, D.C., and Puerto Rico)....do... FAILURES, INDUST. AND COMMERCIAL (Dun & Bradstreet)..number. 248 1,651 1,579 286 248 1,699 1,625 294 309 1,686 1,591 204 257 1,666 1,572 206 214 FINANCE: Currency in circulation 3/ mil. $. Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total .3/....do... Member bank reserve balances 3/ do... Excess reserves, estimated .3/ do... 43,614 46,747 23,726 418 43,568 46,811 23,813 583 45,758 50,751 25,692 322 45,777 51,099 25,953 441 45,942 50,949 25,529 491 71,896 46,640 185,628 25,997 60,455 27,322 69,756 46,574 184,997 25,622 60,404 27,210 78,598 48,516 203,819 28,080 64,994 29,035 75,654 48,518 201,901 27,417 64,913 29,027 75,753 48,637 201,654 27,513 64,884 29,047 5.34 88.27 94.38 5.38 87.34 93.36 6.40 92.24 100.00 6.40 92.06 99.75 6.39 90.14 97.68 1,805 23,144 178,075 8,712 1,725 23,493 159,310 8,751 1,397 24,835 179,208 9,363 1,743 25,026 181,059 9,378 1,768 25,783 224,516 9,372 2,476 132.9 2,582 138.6 2,821 151.4 2,857 153.4 2,826 151.7 13.9 13.4 13.5 13.5 13.9 WHOLESALE PRICES, 22 COMMODITIES 2/ ALL RETAIL STORES, SALES Nondurable goods stores Assets and liabilities of large commercial banks: ±/ Demand deposits, adjusted mil. $.. Savi ngs depos its do.... Loans and investments (adjusted), total do.... U.S. Government obligations do.... Commercial and industrial loans (gross) do.... Real estate loans (gross) do.... Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3/ percent.. Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's) 4/..1941-43=10.. Industrials, 425 stocks do.... PRODUCTION: Bituminous coal 3/ thous. sh. tons.. Electric power, by utilities mil. kw.-hr.. Motor vehicles (cars, trucks, buses) number.. Petroleum (crude) and condensate 3/ thous. bb I. • Steel, raw Index of production thous. sh. tons.. 1957-59=100.. RAIL FREIGHT, REVENUE TON MILES bil. $.. ±/ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday price. MONTHLY 220 3/ Daily average. ±f Wednesday data. BUSINESS STATISTICS 1966 1967 1968 ITEM Dec. Jan. Oct. Nov. Jan. Dec. CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE CONSTRUCTION COST INDEXES: American Appraisal Co., The: ...1913-100.. New York do.... St. Lou is 937 887 970 979 889 970 992 922 1,019 1,019 930 1,024 1,025 932 1,025 1,026 1,033 1,044 884 879 890 883 928 912 933 916 937 919 941 923 9,452 4,958 9,560 4,986 10,661 5,502 10,675 5,546 10,848 5,609 1 1,012 5,661 FINANCE AGRICULTURAL LOANS AND DISCOUNTS OUTSTANDING OF AGENCIES SUPERVISED BY THE FARM CREDIT ADM.: Farm mortgage loans: Federal land banks... i i • • i t t O O t t « i do.... do.... Bank debits to demand deposit accounts, except interbank and U.S. Govt, accounts, annual rates, seas . adj.: ToTa| t/LDD bMbA s } . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • • • • bi 1. $.. do.... 1,290 3,205 1,323 3,251 1,438 3,721 1,475 3,654 1,506 3,733 1,565 3,785 6,406.5 2,844.6 6,409.1 2,847.3 6,993.0 3,102.4 6,997.7 3,100.8 7,047.0 3,149.7 7,369.4 3,323.4 do.... do.... do.... 3,561.9 1,405.1 2,156.8 3,561.8 1,362.2 2,199.6 3,890.6 1,537.7 2,352.9 3,896.9 1,557.8 2,339.1 3,897.3 1,515.4 2,381.9 4,046.0 1,584.8 2,461.2 do.... 6.38 6.00 6.38 6.00 5.66 6.00 5.78 6.00 5.82 6.24 5.98 6.68 1,667 1,145 1,346 1,038 1,444 1,107 1,372 1,040 1,715 1,151 Money and interest rates: LIFE INSURANCE: Premiums collected (LIAMA): Digitized for9301 FRASER do 281 241 201 107 1 232 105 • 235 96 1 328 235 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 1966 3 1967 ITEM Dec. FINANCE—Con. Turnover of demand deposits except interbank and U.S. Govt., annual rates, seasonally adjusted: Total (233 SMSA's) ratio of debits to deposits... New York SMSA do... Total 232 SMSA's (except N.Y.) 6 other leading SMSA's 226 other SMSA's Oct. Jan. Dec. Nov. 56.9 121.8 57.2 124.7 58.3 125.5 58.4 130.2 58. 5 122. 1 40.0 53.2 34.2 39.4 50.9 34.8 40.8 54.6 35.1 41.2 55.7 34.8 41. 1 54. 6 35. 3 9.35 49 118 10.03 59 106 I 1.40 68 112 I 1.24 59 110 9.91 48 119 mil. lb.. 34.1 34.3 38.9 35.5 r33.8 sh. tons.. do.... 249.2 94.2 237.6 III.6 143.5 121.6 229.0 137.1 rl96.8 r146.7 mil. lb.. 175.1 168.0 100.2 167.1 r140.8 do. do. do. TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION Hotels: Average sale per occupied room Rooms occup ied Restaurant sales index dollars.. % oi tota I.. same mo. 1951=100.. FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS; TOBACCO VEGETABLE OILS AND RELATED PRODUCTS: Corn oiI: Production, crude Cottonseed cake and meaI: Production thous. Stocks (at oil mills), end of month Cottonseed oil: Production, crude Linseed oiI: Production, crude (raw) Soybean cake and meaI: Production thous. Stocks (at oil mills), end of month Soybean oil: Production, crude 33.3 35.3 35.9 r 24.3 sh. tons.. do.... 1,133.1 120.0 1,157.6 134.1 1,136.9 151.6 1,180.1 165.5 r I , 128,3 M77.0 mil. lb.. 512.3 529.0 515.1 515.7 r50l.6 ..thous. skins.. thous. hides and kips.. thous. skins.. do.... 341 1,921 909 1,960 299 1,912 907 2,012 374 2,102 757 2,607 378 2,070 781 2,748 347 1,977 680 2,399 7,350 7,374 7,530 7,626 8,182 962 1,214 669 940 1,220 636 909 1,235 742 850 1,262 716 914 1,197 649 182 89 56 161 90 54 122 95 49 120 89 51 121 86 48 10,435 126.5 r10,633 128.9 II,171 135.4 11,299 141.5 11,953 144.9 590 179 148 557 171 145 303 143 118 300 145 119 295 149 123 6,595 4,535 22,687 7,000 5,040 22,400 6,150 4,545 19,250 6,165 4,485 17,590 6,265 4,655 19,305 .5 6.5 .7 9.8 .6 8.0 46.9 40.4 164.3 51.6 46.8 43.4 138.7 33.2 74.9 29.7 195.5 136.4 61.9 28.9 191.8 r92.7 46.5 27.3 86.4 64.5 176.4 88.1 68.3 206.4 r168.9 r 126.7 233.3 r 126.8 r96.9 197.1 *II0.4 *90.6 198.2 10.7 1.3 2.9 8.9 .8 4.1 5.5 I.I 1.8 10.3 1.3 6.3 II.0 .5 7.1 120.35 107.35 135.50 120.95 1,306.7 94.15 86.30 92.30 83.05 1,308.6 77.25 71.75 106.20 95.80 1,174.3 77.45 67.65 114.25 101.45 I,137.5 r88.35 r80.15 r 137.40 r 121.40 rI,088.5 do.... 30.1 LEATHER AND PRODUCTS LEATHER PRODUCTION: Calf and whole kip Cattle hide and side kip Goat and kid Sheep and lamb METALS AND MANUFACTURES PIG IRON: thous. sh. tons. Production (excl. ferroalloys) Castings, gray iron: Orders, unfilled, for sale, end of month do.... Sh i pments, tota I do. •.. For sa le do.... Castings, malleable iron: Orders, unfilled, for sale, end of month do.... Shipments, tota I ; do.... For sale do.... STEEL (RAW): PRODUCT I ON do Index daily average 1957-59=100. Steel castings: Orders, unfilled, for sale, end of mo....thous. sh. tons... Shi pments, tota I do. •.. For sale do..•. Tin: Consumption, pig, total Ig. tons.. Pr i mary do.... Stocks, pig (industrial), end of month do.... Radiators and convectors, shipments: Cast iron mil. sq. ft. radiation... Nonf errous do. •. • Oil burners: Shipments Stocks, end of month Ranges, gas, domestic cooking, shipments J./ Stoves, gas, domestic heating, shipments Warm-air furnaces, shipments, total Gas Water heaters, gas, shipments thous.. do.... do.... do.... do. do. do. Furnaces and ovens (indust.), dom. new orders, net..mi I. $... E I ectr i c process ing do.. •. Fuel-fired (except for hot rolling steel) do.... MACHINE TOOLS: Metal cutting type tools: Orders, new (net), total mil. $. Domestic do.... Shipments, total do.... Domest ic do.... Order back I og, end of month do.... £./ Revised. ±/ 44! 7 In November 1967, shipments of cooking tops, for use with built-in ovens, totaled 17,500 units (4-burner equivalent). * Total excludes shipments of gas- and oil-fired gravity air-flow types; gas furnaces exclude these gas-fired types. 9301 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS —Continued 4 1966 1967 1968 ITEM Dec. METALS AND MANUFACTURES—Con. MACHINE TOOLS—Con. Metal forming type t o o l s ; Orders, new ( n e t ) , t o t a l Domestic Shipments, total Domest ic Order backlog, end of month mil. $.. do.... do.... do.... do.... Jan. Oct. Dec. Nov. 22.75 19.05 40.20 38.70 394.4 19.40 18.85 36.05 33.70 377.7 24.10 21.75 41.15 37.30 245.4 23.60 21.70 34.55 31.15 234.5 667 740 184 698 612 270 681 704 323 198 205 21 593 681 227 209 39 542 682 852 r r r r r Jan. 33.25 27.20 .59.45 35.15 228.3 20.45 18.60 31.45 24.95 217.3 675 687 311 602 646 268 641 583 325 228 226 47 634 698 222 228 41 622 673 204 206 39 587 630 238 223 55 518 617 770 744 720 825 878 19.5 15.1 11.3 .453 8.8 19.8 15.3 10.1 .503 7.8 20.1 14.7 10.3 .513 7.4 20.1 14.5 10.2 .511 7.3 20.0 14.4 11.6 .465 8.3 20.0 14.2 12.6 .504 8.9 66.3 54.5 65.3 57.1 r 68.1 r 53.8 r 67.6 61.4 70.2 66.5 r 108.8 I I 1.4 rill.2 rlll.l 114.3 122.4 PULP, PAPER, AND PAPER PRODUCTS NEWSPRINT, CANADA; Production thous. sh. tons.. Shipments from mills do.... Stocks at mills, end of month do.... NEWSPRINT, UNITED STATES: Product i on do.... Shipments from mills do.... Stocks at mills, end of month do.... Consumption by publishers do.... Stocks at and in transit to publishers, end of mo do.... TEXTILE PRODUCTS COTTON (exclusive of I inters): ±/ Consumpt ion thous.ba Ies.. Manufactures: Spindle activity (cotton system spindles): Active spindles, last working day, total millions... Consuming 100 percent cotton do.... Spindle hours operated, all fibers, total....biI I ions... Average per working day do.... Consuming 100 percent cotton do.... MANMADE FIBERS: Production: Rayon and acetate: Filament yarn mil. lb.. Staple, incl. tow (rayon only) do.... Nonce Ilulosic (except textile glass fiber): Yarn and monofilaments do.... Staple, incl. tow do.... Stocks, producers', end of month: Rayon and acetate: F i I ament yarn do.... Staple, incl. tow (rayon only) do.... Nonce Ilulosic (except textile glass fiber): Yarn and monofilaments do.... Staple, incl. tow do.... Women's, misses', juniors' outerwear, cuttings: Coats thous. un i ts... Dresses do.... Suits do.... Blouses, waists, and shirts Skirts thous. doz.. do.... 67.3 70.1 70.2 74.5 r 58.5 r 49.5 53.0 44.9 51.7 43.8 150.2 129.8 155.9 127.9 r 147.6 r129.9 r143.2 M3I.6 138.7 142.4 1,680 18,311 759 2,075 22,292 984 2,177 22,882 698 r2,148 r22, 119 r 728 1,551 18,858 631 777 523 1,151 756 1,356 754 rl,!52 r 578 867 396 r_l Revised. _[/ Data for December 1966, December 1967, and January 1968 cover 5 weeks; other periods, 4 weeks. USCOMM-DC—9301 POSTAGE A N D FEES PAID UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON, D.C. 20402 OFFICIAL BUSINESS First Class Mail WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
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