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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Availoble only with subscription to the monthly mogozine SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS October 25. 1953 This Supplement provides selected weekly data and monthly data subsequent to those published !n the latest monthly SURVEY » *•• * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1953 1952 ITEM Commodity prices, wholesale: All commodities 1947-49*100 Form products . do Foods processed . . do. . A l 1 other do. . 22 commodities 2/ do. . Department store sales. .. .do. . Insured unemployment, total thous. State programs , do. . Failures, ind. £ comm. . .number Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3/ percent Oct. 18 Oct. 3 Oct. 10 Oct. 17 87.1 112 1 10.3 96 1 104.2 1 14.6 85.6 120 1 10. 1 95 3 104.0 1 14.6 85.9 *l 1 1. 1 *I04 9 *I08.5 *l 13.0 92.6 **I26 139 #810 #761 189 186 169 3.22 3.52 3.48 3.45 «*654 **627 1953 1952 ITEM Oct. 18 Stock prices (480), Standard and Poor's 1935-39*100 182 6 197 5 Industrials (420) do Product ion : BItum.coal 3/. ., thous. sh. tons ** 1 , 520 Electric power, by u t i l i t i e s mi 1. kw.-hr. **7,698 Motor vehicles (Ward's) ... .No. 130,872 Petro leum, crude 3/. .thous. bb 1 . **6,44I Steel (Ingots & for castings, 137.7 quantity) £/ 1947-49.100 **843 Freight car loadings. thous. cars «*4I6 M 1 see I 1 aneou s do . . Oct. 3 Oct. 10 179 2 192 4 180 8 194 2 1,538 1,546 8,414 134,400 6,353 8,307 140,402 6,2>3 133.7 813 400 133.6 804 394 Oct. 17 181 7 195 1 144,626 135.2 Monthly Index for J./ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. £/ Tuesday prices. 3/ D a i l y averages. 4/ Week ended October 24, 133.0. October 1952. ** For week corresponding to latest. 0 For preceding week: Total, 805,000; State programs, 756,000. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1953 1952 September July August September £/ Revised. September July August September COMMODITY PR 1 CIS - Con, COMMODITY PRICES Wholesale prices (Dept. Labor ) i All commodities... I947-49- 100 Farm products do. . Fruits and vegetables. .do. . Grains do. . Livestock* 1 ive poultry. do.. Foods, processed do. . Cereals & bakery prod.. do.. Dairy prod. 4 ice cream. do.. Fruits and vegetables. .do.. Meats, pou 1 try & f i s h . . . do.. Commodities other than farm prod. & foods. . 1947-49=100 Chemicals, etc do.. Chemicals, indust do.. Drugs, etc , do. . Fats and oi Is do. . Fsr t i 1 i jer mjBter i a 1 s . . do , . Paint, ete do.. Fuel, power, etc do.. Coa 1 . . do. . E lectr ieity do. . Gas. , do. . Petroleum 4 prod do. • Furniture, ete. ,...,., .do. . Appl ianees, 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, motive prod. do.. Agri. machinery, etc.. do.. Construction mach do*. 195.3 1912 i TFU 1 TETfcJ III. 8 106.6 Mi, 6 96,9 99.3 110.9 97.9 94.7 §5.4 95,9 110.3 106, § 116.4 105.9 109.4 105.5 108.5 110.6 105.6 113.2 104.0 114.3 M4.8 92.1 48.9 1 1 1 .0 107.0 106.2 107 6 101.3 166.3' 168.5 112.6 107.3 112.6 97.6 106.2 126.2 93.6 46.7 1 13.8 120.4 120.6 121.5 l?l.5 125.8 98.0 S6.5 88. 1 104.8 M08.4 110.7 r!64.7 93,6 rl!4.9 166.3 126.2 93.5 166,1 116.8 114.7 108.8 113.8 r46.9 1 13.8 166.3 rlll.O r 111 7 r99. 1 M65.7 1 16.5 114.8 108.9 rM3.8 95.6 74.3 r74.0 166,1 Ml. 1 1i1 8 98.5 ioe.0 116. 6 64.4 89.3 110.6 r96.4 III. 7 73.4 96. 1 121. 1 126.2 123.4 12?. 7 136.8 95.6 99.9 Ml, 8 74.6 95.6 r!26.4 MI9.3 M23.7 122.3 rl30.5 MI.O 97.9 ae!2 90.6 106.5 110.4 III.3 164.7 97,2 114.8 166.7 120.0 Wholesale prices - Qen, Machinery, motive prod. -Con. glee, mac h. , ete. 1947-49=100 M@tqr vehicles. da.. Metals & metal prod do,. Heating equipment do.. I r on and stee 1 ...,,.... do ,. Nonferrous metals do,, Nonmetallie minerals, structural , , , do. , Clay products, , , , . , , , , . d@. , Concrete pFQ^yets, . , . . .do, , Gypsum products do,, Pulp, paaer, ete do.. . Paper , ,,, .de,, 119.7 1 19.7 124.6 113.7 127,5 124.7 124.8 118.6 129.3 115, 1 135.7 126.4 113,8 131,3 II?, 7 119.4 131, 1 1 15,6 116, 1 115.6 124.0 1 15.8 125. i 116.2 125.9 120.7 131.7 117.4 12?, 1 1 16.9 126.5 126.3 126.3 124.6 126.4 rl?3.5 125. 1 124. 1 126.4 99.5 99.3 98.9 97.5 99.3 97.5 @9.3 r94. 1 97.2 99.3 93.7 M8.6 rl?©,4 MI5.6 119.6 M7.7 125.9 118,6 128.4 115.8 134.5 12?. 8 93.5 51. 1 1 13.6 107.1 i 1 1. 1 1 12 3 99. 1 165.7 1 16.5 114.9 169. 1 114.2 95.6 74.0 99.7 III. 8 74.? 94.5 119.2 118.3 124.0 122.3 150.9 Rubber and products. .,. .do. . Tires and tubes. ,,,... . d§« * Textile prod-, etc. .t . . .do. , Apparel .,.,,,, de., Cotton products, ...... .cjp. • S i l k products ....do.. Synthetic text! les. . . . ,de. . Woo 1 products do . . Tobqceo manufactures qnd bottled bev 1947-49=100 Beverages, a Icoholic. . .do. . Cigarettes do. . Wholesale p., selected items: Butter, 92- score (N f Y,) dol. per Ib. Eggs, extras, lajge (Chicago) dol . per doz. 6orn,av.5 markets. .dol .per bu. Wheat, av. 6 markets do.. Beef steers (Chicago) d o t . per 160 Ib. Hogs (Ch i eago) do . . 139.3 94. 1 134.7 89.9 ll|. 4 87.5 III. 7 Mf.l 114.7 £16.7- 134.7 86.7 MI. a II 1.2 115. 6 116.? III.? 124.6 116.5 112.6 no'o 124.0 116.6 124.0 .73? .6§6 .661 .670 .553 .§31 1.550 2.439 1.568 2.533 24.79 2?. 97 25.41 24.18 1,716 2.474 32.19 19.11 ?4.?6 23. ?9 .6?4 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued ITEM September July August FINANCE Bank debits, total (345 centers) m i l . dol . New York City do.. 6 other centers do. . Stocks : Cash dividend payments: Total ( pub. reported) ... .do. . F \ nance do .. Manufactur i ng do. . Mining do.. Commu n 5 cat i on s do.. Heat, light & power. .. .do. . Rai Iroad do. . Trade do.. Miscellaneous .. . do.. TRANSPORTATION Freight car load ings: Federal Reserve indexes, total adj 1935-39*100 Coa 1 do Coke do. . do.. Ore do . . Merchandise 1 c I . . . do. Mi seel laneous .do.. 0.562 .569 56.31 0.426 .597 56.22 0.432 .570 56.23 0.451 .543 56.10 .0498 .2420 .0524 .2969 .0524 .2961 .0524 .2962 .1600 . 1398 1.596 .1368 .1100 1.725 .1400 .1098 1.725 .1374 . 1067 1.725 373,724 102,462 271,262 316,298 78 ,977 237,320 339,713 89,164 250,549 351,988 91,513 260,475 Stocks, cold storage, end mo.: Apples, fresh thous. bu. Butter, creamery.... thous. Ib. Cheese, total do.. Fruits, frozen do.. Vegetables, frozen do.. Eggs: Shell thous. cases Frozen thous . 1 b . Meats, total 3/ m i l . Ib. Beef and veal thous Ib. Lamb and mutton do . . Pork, excluding lard.... do.. Poultry do.. 136,067 49,131 28,61 1 148, 128 51,799 32,683 134,589 45,516 29,958 147,873 54,888 31,422 1, 166.5 78.2 763.5 87.9 46.9 76.8 42.4 47.2 23.6 576.0 137.0 200.6 5.6 104.3 66.3 14. 1 39.2 8.9 220.9 52.0 88.0 2.5 1.0 55.4 10.0 7.6 4.4 1,235.3 86.4 796. 1 86.2 51.8 94.7 49.3 50.8 19.9 134 135 189 140 123 70 235 45 144 123 94 167 146 138 60 213 42 139 1 1,264 21,567 10,705 815 43,666 8,037 24,231 17,033 1, 136 103, 1 18 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 128 309,894 420,281 568, 132 468,377 1, 199 152,835 638 163,626 10,410 350,825 1 12,460 r509 r 334, 853 r445,575 r 602, 001 r573,60l r827 r 133, 427 r532 r 153,672 r9,460 r265,98l r 127, 340 8,231 323,693 459,405 576,343 675,011 495 1 10,056 452 155,378 9,892 198,077 175,763 130 1 12 169 145 131 58 221 44 145 126 1 14 164 137 131 59 216 43 139 25,503 25,011 24,375 1,916 38,907 18,859 25,234 8,784 2,663 40,988 Stee 1 i ngots and stee 1 for castings: Production. .. .thous. sh. tons Percent of capacity Steel products, net shipments: Tota 1 thous sh tons Bars, hot rol led: A 1 1 grades do Reinforcing . do Semimanufactures . . . do Pipes and tubes. do.. P 1 ates . . . do. Rails (Jo. . Sheets . do Strip* Cold rolled do Hot rol led do Structural shapes . .do . Tin plate & ternep late. .do. . Wire & wire prod do 9,063 102 9,276 93 9,406 94 8,913 92 #6,312 6,583 6,499 #744 #188 #306 #717 #680 #121 #1 567 #127 #155 #428 #479 #416 794 166 295 801 587 156 1,957 151 161 414 405 328 750 148 252 778 586 150 1,921 188 195 391 390 378 PAPER AND PRINTING A l l paper & paperboard m i l l s : Paper & paperboard prod., total thous. sh. tons Paper do . . Paperboard do. . Bui Id ing board do #2,059 #990 #942 #126 2,042 981 941 120 2,297 1,081 1,099 117 739,050 725,849 702,425 21,344 20,007 21,391 20,063 21,322 20,039 10, 126 405 9,484 1 11 9,857 493 9,279 135 9,582 491 9,044 134 TEXTILE PRODUCTS Cotton: 4_/ Consumpt ion bales r737,054 Manufactures: Spindle activity: Active spindles, last work21,432 ing day, total thous. 20,041 Consum. I00# cotton. . .do. . Spindle hours operated, a l l 9,768 fibers, total m i l . hr. 501 Av. per working day.. do.. 9,134 Consum. 1 00^ cotton ... do .. 135 Operations as % of capacity 3/ Excluding lard. 4/ Data PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVCHO PAYMENT OF POSTAGE, $300 FIRST CLASS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL BUSINEM Permit NO. 1009 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS September 6,221 111,319 262,467 556,897 530,091 1,709 123,661 587 184, 158 12,553 290,931 182,786 £/ Revised. # For August 1952. J./ See note on corresponding item in the October 1953 SURVEY. £/ Nominal price, for July 1953 cover 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks. DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS August METALS AND MANUFACTURES FOODSTUFFS Receipts, principal markets: Barley thous. bu. Cor n do . . Oats do. . Rye do. . Wheat do.. July FOODSTUFFS - Con. DOMESTIC TRADE Mai 1 -order & store sales, total, 2 cos thous. dol. Montgomery Ward & Co do. . Sears, Roebuck & Co do.. September September COMMODITY PRICES - Con. Wholesale p., sel. items - Con. Beef, choice (N.Y. ) .dol .per Ib. Pork, loins (N.Y.) do.. Pig iron,comp.l/dol.per l.ton Steel, composite, finished dol. per Ib. Copper,® lectro. (N.Y.) . . . .do. . Lead, refined, pig, desilverized (N.Y.)... dol. per Ib. Zinc, prime W. (St. Louis) .do. . Wool, raw (Boston) do.. 2>/ Grain & grain prod 1953 1952 1953 1952 ITEM
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