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Financial and Business Statistics.


Guide to Tabular Presentation

SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
c       Corrected
e       Estimated
n.a.    Not available
p       Preliminary
r       Revised (Notation appears on column heading
          when about half of the figures in that column are changed
*       Amounts insignificant in terms of
          the last decimal place shown in the
          table (for example, less than
          500,000 when the smallest unit
          given is millions)
0       Calculated to be zero
...     Cell not applicable
ATS     Automatic transfer service
BIF     Bank insurance fund
CD      Certificate of deposit
CMO     Collateralized mortgage obligation
CRA     Community Reinvestment Act 1977
FFB     Federal Financing Bank
FHA     Federal Housing Administration
FHLBB   Federal Home Loan Bank Board
FHLMC   Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
FmHA    Farmers Home Administration
FNMA    Federal National Mortgage Association
FSLIC   Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
G-7     Group of Seven
G-10    Group of Ten
GNMA    Government National Mortgage Association
GDP     Gross domestic product
HUD     Department of Housing and Urban
          Development
IMF     International Monetary Fund
IO      Interest only
IPCs    Individuals, partnership, and corporations
IRA     Individual retirement account
MMDA    Money market deposit account
MSA     Metropolitan statistical area
NOW     Negotiable order of withdrawal
OCD     Other checkable deposit
OPEC    Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OTS     Office of Thrift Supervision
PMI     Private mortgage insurance
PO      Principal only
REIT    Real estate investment trust
REMIC   Real estate mortgage investment conduit
RHS     Rural Housing Service
RP      Repurchase agreement
RTC     Resolution Trust Corporation
SCO     Securitized credit obligation
SDR     Special drawing right
SIC     Standard Industrial Classification
VA      Department of Veterans Affairs


GENERAL INFORMATION

In many of the tables, components do not sum to totals because of rounding.

Minus signs are used to indicate (1) a decrease, (2) a negative figure, or (3) an outflow.

"U.S. government securities" may include guaranteed issues of U.S. government agencies (the flow of funds figures also include not fully guaranteed issues) as well as direct obligations of the Treasury.

"State and local government" also includes municipalities, special districts, and other political subdivisions.

1.10 RESERVES, MONEY STOCK, AND DEBT MEASURES

Percent annual rate of change, seasonally adjusted(1)
                                              1998
  Monetary or credit aggregate
                                     Q2        Q3         Q4

      Reserves of depository
        institutions(2)
 1 Total                            -3.6       -7.7      -1.8
 2 Required                         -2.5       -8.9      -2.5
 3 Nonborrowed                      -4.1       -8.6        .6
 4 Monetary base(3)                  5.4        6.9       8.7

   Concepts of money and debt(4)
 5 M1                                1.0       -2.0       5.0
 6 M2                                7.5        6.9      11.0
 7 M3                               10.1        8.6      12.8r
 8 Debt                              6.0(r)     5.8(r)    6.3(r)

   Nontransaction components
 9 In M2(5)                          9.8        9.9      13.0
10 In M3 only(6)                    17.8       13.5      17.9(r)

   Time and savings deposits
   Commercial banks
11   Savings, including MMDAs       13.4       15.8      17.6
12   Small time(7)                    .1         .1        .3(r)
13   Large time(8, 9)               16.4        3.5       3.8(r)

   Thrift institutions
14   Savings including MMDAs        10.8        9.0      10.1
15   Small time(7)                   -4.4      -7.3      -6.7
16   Large time(8)                   -4.5        .5      10.4

   Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                           20.9       19.0      28.4
18 Institution-only                 34.7       26.6      41.8

     Repurchase agreements and
          Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements1(10)       14.5       11.7      16.5(r)
20 Eurodollars(10)                  -3.3       21.7       3.2(r)

   Debt components(4)
21 Federal                          -1.4       -1.5      -2.0
22 Nonfederal                        8.4        8.2(r)    8.9(r)

                                    1999             1999
  Monetary or credit aggregate
                                     Q1        Jan.      Feb.(r)

      Reserves of depository
        institutions(2)
 1 Total                            -1.2        6.0      -15.3
 2 Required                          1.0        7.5       -7.0
 3 Nonborrowed                      -1.3        3.6      -13.0
 4 Monetary base(3)                  9.1       10.5        9.4

   Concepts of money and debt(4)
 5 M1                                2.8(r)    -2.6        1.8
 6 M2                                7.2        6.6        5.6
 7 M3                                7.3(r)     4.0        9.0
 8 Debt                              5.9(r)     5.4(r)     5.0

   Nontransaction components
 9 In M2(5)                          8.7        9.6        6.9
10 In M3 only(6)                     7.4(r)    -3.0(r)    18.2

   Time and savings deposits
   Commercial banks
11   Savings, including MMDAs       11.6       12.6        5.4
12   Small time(7)                  -5.4       -7.7       -7.7
13   Large time(8, 9)                -.1(r)    13.1(r)   -22.4

   Thrift institutions
14   Savings including MMDAs        12.7       15.0       14.3
15   Small time(7)                  -6.3(r)    -4.8       -6.3
16   Large time(8)                   7.6(r)    25.6      -14.5

   Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                           20.5       22.7       22.6
18 Institution-only                 17.9       -2.8       34.7

     Repurchase agreements and
          Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements1(10)       11.7(r)   -25.0       69.5
20 Eurodollars(10)                  -8.9(r)   -35.0(r)    30.3

   Debt components(4)
21 Federal                          -2.6       -2.1       -7.3
22 Nonfederal                        8.5(r)     7.7(r)     8.7

                                              1999
  Monetary or credit aggregate
                                   Mar.       Apr.        May

      Reserves of depository
        institutions(2)
 1 Total                           -22.5        7.2       10.5
 2 Required                        -25.6       11.5        8.0
 3 Nonborrowed                     -21.1        4.4(r)    11.6
 4 Monetary base(3)                  7.8       10.3       13.8

   Concepts of money and debt(4)
 5 M1                               10.3(r)     6.9       -4.0
 6 M2                                2.8        8.8        4.5
 7 M3                               -1.6(r)     8.1(r)     4.3
 8 Debt                              7.0(r)     6.8       n.a.

   Nontransaction components
 9 In M2(5)                           .3        9.4        7.4
10 In M3 only(6)                   -13.7(r)     6.2(r)     3.7

   Time and savings deposits
   Commercial banks
11   Savings, including MMDAs         .2       17.5        7.8
12   Small time(7)                  -3.5       -3.7(r)    -2.3
13   Large time(8, 9)              -18.6(r)    12.7(r)   -10.3

   Thrift institutions
14   Savings including MMDAs         7.3        9.5       27.3
15   Small time(7)                  -8.2(r)    -4.1       -7.1
16   Large time(8)                 -14.7(r)     4.1      -14.8

   Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                            3.1       12.6        9.1
18 Institution-only                 -1.8       21.1       13.8

     Repurchase agreements and
          Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements1(10)      -48.2(r)   -37.3(r)    16.3
20 Eurodollars(10)                  32.8(r)    18.7(r)     3.1

   Debt components(4)
21 Federal                          -1.1       -2.4       n.a.
22 Nonfederal                        9.5(r)     9.5       n.a.


(1.) Unless otherwise noted, rates of change are calculated from average amounts outstanding during preceding month or quarter.

(2.) Figures incorporate adjustments for discontinuities, or "breaks," associated with regulatory changes in reserve requirements. (See also table 1.20.)

(3.) The seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted monetary base consists of (1) seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted total reserves (line 1), plus (2) the seasonally adjusted currency component of the money stock, plus (3) (for all quarterly reporters on the "Report of Transaction Accounts, Other Deposits and Vault Cash" and for all weekly reporters whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves
Required reserves
The dollar amounts, based on reserve ratios, that banks are required to keep on deposit at a Federal Reserve Bank.
) the seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted difference between current vault cash and the amount applied to satisfy current reserve requirements.

(4.) Composition of the money stock measures and debt is as follows:

M1: (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions, (2) travelers checks of nonbank issuers, (3) demand deposits at all commercial banks other than those owed to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions, less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float
Federal Reserve float
Float is checkbook money that appears on the books of both the check writer (the payor) and the check receiver (the payee) while a check is being processed. Federal Reserve float is float present during the Federal Reserve's check collection process. To promote efficiency in the payments system and provide certainly about the date that deposited funds will become available to the receiving depository institutions (and the payee), the Federal
, and (4) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and automatic transfer service (ATS) accounts at depository institutions, credit union share draft accounts, and demand deposits at thrift institutions. Seasonally adjusted M1 is computed by summing currency, travelers checks, demand deposits, and OCDs, each seasonally adjusted separately.

M2:M1 plus (1) savings (including MMDAs), (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits--including retail RPs--in amounts of less than $100,000), and (3) balances in retail money market mutual funds. Excludes individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Keogh balances at depository institutions and money market funds. Seasonally adjusted M2 is calculated by summing savings deposits, small-denomination time deposits, and retail money fund balances, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M1.

M3:M2 plus (1) large-denomination time deposits (in amounts of $100,000 or more), (2) balances in institutional money funds, (3) RP liabilities (overnight and term) issued by all depository institutions, and (4) Eurodollars (overnight and term) held by U.S. residents at foreign branches of U.S. banks worldwide and at all banking offices in the United Kingdom and Canada. Excludes amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, money market funds, and foreign banks and official institutions. Seasonally adjusted M3 is calculated by summing large time deposits, institutional money fund balances, RP liabilities, and Eurodollars, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M2.

Debt: The debt aggregate is the outstanding credit market debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors--the federal sector (U.S. government, not including government-sponsored enterprises or federally related mortgage pools) and the nonfederal sectors (state and local governments, households and nonprofit organizations, nonfinancial corporate and nonfarm noncorporate businesses, and farms). Nonfederal debt consists of mortgages, tax-exempt and corporate bonds, consumer credit, bank loans, commercial paper, and other loans. The data, which are derived from the Federal Reserve Board's flow of funds accounts, are break-adjusted (that is, discontinuities in the data have been smoothed into the series) and month-averaged (that is, the data have been derived by averaging adjacent month-end levels).

(5.) Sum of (1) savings deposits (including MMDAs), (2) small time deposits, and (3) retail money fund balances, each seasonally adjusted separately.

(6.) Sum of (1) large time deposits, (2) institutional money fund balances, (3) RP liabilities (overnight and term) issued by depository institutions, and (4) Eurodollars (overnight and term) of U.S. addressees, each seasonally adjusted separately.

(7.) Small time deposits--including retail RPs--are those issued in amounts of less than $100,000. All IRA and Keogh account balances at commercial banks and thrift institutions are subtracted from small time deposits.

(8.) Large time deposits are those issued in amounts of $100,000 or more, excluding those booked at international banking facilities.

(9.) Large time deposits at commercial banks less those held by money market funds, depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions.

(10.) Includes both overnight and term.

1.11 RESERVES OF DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS AND RESERVE BANK CREDIT(1)

Millions of dollars
                                           Average of
                                          daily figures
            Factor
                                               1999
                                    Mar.      Apr.         May

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                   507,920   512,869      518,390
     U.S. government
      securities(2)
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                464,000   469,926      477,296
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                  6,499     6,691        3,974
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                318       311          311
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                  3,408     2,110        3,492
 6   Acceptances                        0         0            0
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit               32       167           14
 8     Seasonal credit                 17        38           91
 9     Extended credit                  0         0            0
10   Float                            210       297          512
11   Other Federal Reserve
      assets                       33,436    33,330       32,700
12 Gold stock                      11,048    11,050       11,049
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account             8,329     8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                    26,581    26,702(r)    26,785

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation        514,736   519,381(r)   523,487
16 Treasury cash holdings             132       144          148
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                       5,463     6,379        5,421
18   Foreign                          177       208          200
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments               6,979     6,715(r)     6,891
20   Other                            247       283          273
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital        17,002    17,275       17,361
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)        9,143     8,435       10,642

                                       End-of-month figures

                                    Mar.      Apr.         May

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                   516,387   519,959      526,186
     U.S. government
      securities(2)               465,686   473,573      482,531
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                 12,730     8,930        6,004
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                    311       311          311
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright              5,606     3,292        4,497
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                      0         0            0
 6   Acceptances
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit              223         2           14
 8     Seasonal credit                 22        65          107
 9     Extended credit                  0         0            0
10   Float                           -882        36          373
11   Other Federal Reserve         32,690    33,749       32,350
      assets
12 Gold stock                      11,049    11,050       11,048
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account             8,200     8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                    26,638    26,757(r)    26,813

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation        517,790   519,751(r)   527,981
16 Treasury cash holdings             135       167          145
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                       5,374    10,040        5,056
18   Foreign                          166       260          157
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments               6,815     6,786(r)     6,888
20   Other                            235       263          223
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital        16,805    17,214       17,575
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)       14,954    11,486(r)    14,221

                                  Average of daily figures for w
                                      ending on date indicated
            Factor
                                                 1999

                                         Apr. 14      Apr. 21

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                         511,893      513,556
     U.S. government
      securities(2)
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                      469,667      470,563
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                        6,496        6,685
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                      311          311
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                        1,660        2,022
 6   Acceptances                              0            0
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit                     32          199
 8     Seasonal credit                       30           36
 9     Extended credit                        0            0
10   Float                                  264          103
11   Other Federal Reserve
      assets                             33,433       33,638
12 Gold stock                            11,050       11,049
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account                   8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                          26,686(r)    26,710(r)

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation              519,983(r)   519,662(r)
16 Treasury cash holdings                   141          145
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                             4,853        6,790
18   Foreign                                188          215
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments                     6,672        6,717
20   Other                                  305          283
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital              17,322       17,269
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)              8,365        8,435

                                          Wednesday figures

                                         Apr. 14      Apr. 21

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                         512,417      514,232
     U.S. government
      securities(2)                     471,409      470,506
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                        5,880        5,880
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                          311          311
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                    1,334        1,334
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                            0            0
 6   Acceptances
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit                     74        1,367
 8     Seasonal credit                       32           41
 9     Extended credit                        0            0
10   Float                                 -319        1,050
11   Other Federal Reserve               33,695       33,744
      assets
12 Gold stock                            11,048       11,049
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account                   8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                          26,686(r)    26,710(r)

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation              520,930(r)   520,400(r)
16 Treasury cash holdings                   145          145
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                             4,157        6,690
18   Foreign                                191          193
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments                     6,672        6,717
20   Other                                  306          240
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital              17,040       17,007
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)              8,909        8,800

            Factor
                                    Wednesday figures

                                   Apr. 28       May 5

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                   513,033      520,486
     U.S. government
      securities(2)
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                471,697      473,571
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                  3,904        9,155
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                311          311
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                  2,371        2,900
 6   Acceptances                        0            0
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit              316           10
 8     Seasonal credit                 51           67
 9     Extended credit                  0            0
10   Float                            905          481
11   Other Federal Reserve
      assets                       33,478       33,991
12 Gold stock                      11,049       11,050
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account             8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                    26,733(r)    26,757

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation        519,328(r)   520,647
16 Treasury cash holdings             148          164
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                       7,182        7,888
18   Foreign                          182          210
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments               6,815(r)     6,786
20   Other                            241          271
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital        17,304       17,253
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)        7,815(r)    13,275

                                    Wednesday figures

                                   Apr. 28      May 5

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                   518,657      521,899
     U.S. government
      securities(2)               473,474      473,474
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                  6,730        9,705
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                    311          311
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright              3,015        2,488
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                      0            0
 6   Acceptances
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit                6           14
 8     Seasonal credit                 60           75
 9     Extended credit                  0            0
10   Float                            736        1,780
11   Other Federal Reserve         34,172       34,052
      assets
12 Gold stock                      11,048       11,049
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account             8,200        8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                    26,733(r)    26,757

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation        520,757(r)   522,527
16 Treasury cash holdings             167          147
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                       8,545        4,999
18   Foreign                          168          167
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments               6,815(r)     6,786
20   Other                            237          283
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital        17,055       17,004
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)       10,894(r)    15,992

                                  Average of daily figures for w
                                      ending on date indicated.

            Factor
                                                1999

                                     May 12    May 19    May 26

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                     520,486   514,458   515,171
     U.S. government
      securities(2)
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                  474,404   476,179   480,308
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                    1,962     4,079       845
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                  311       311       311
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                    3,466     5,160     1,789
 6   Acceptances                          0         0         0
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit                  3        33         8
 8     Seasonal credit                   82        87       106
 9     Extended credit                    0         0         0
10   Float                              921       301       395
11   Other Federal Reserve
      assets                         33,310    32,794    31,409
12 Gold stock                        11,049    11,049    11,048
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account               8,200     8,200     8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                      26,771    26,785    26,799

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation          522,400   523,093   523,745
16 Treasury cash holdings               147       147       142
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                         5,307     5,157     4,888
18   Foreign                            181       195       251
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments                 7,014     6,779     6,958
20   Other                              289       293       269
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital          17,207    17,471    17,353
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)          7,933    11,843     7,613

                                         Wednesday figures

                                    May 12      May 19    May 26

    SUPPLYING RESERVE FUNDS

 1 Reserve Bank credit
    outstanding                     515,269   520,114   518,976
     U.S. government
      securities(2)                 475,914   477,335   480,718
 2     Bought outright--System
        account(3)                    1,463     4,785     2,476
 3     Held under repurchase
        agreements                      311       311       311
     Federal agency obligations
 4     Bought outright                3,136     5,648     3,522
 5     Held under repurchase
        agreements                        0         0         0
 6   Acceptances
     Loans to depository
      institutions
 7     Adjustment credit                  2         6         8
 8     Seasonal credit                   79        95       110
 9     Extended credit                    0         0         0
10   Float                              699       677         9
11   Other Federal Reserve           33,665    31,258    31,821
      assets
12 Gold stock                        11,050    11,048    11,048
13 Special drawing rights
    certificate account               8,200     8,200     8,200
14 Treasury currency
    outstanding                      26,771    26,785    26,799

    ABSORBING RESERVE FUNDS

15 Currency in circulation          523,883   524,102   526,403
16 Treasury cash holdings               147       141       145
   Deposits, other than
    reserve balances, with
      Federal Reserve Banks
17   Treasury                         4,095     4,783     5,101
18   Foreign                            178       188       211
19   Service-related balances
      and adjustments                 7,014     6,779     6,958
20   Other                              282       305       235
21 Other Federal Reserve
    liabilities and capital          17,204    17,244    17,121
22 Reserve balances with
    Federal Reserve Banks(4)          8,486    12,604     8,850


(1.) Amounts of cash held as reserves are shown in table 1.12, line 2.

(2.) Includes securities loaned--fully guaranteed by U.S. government securities pledged with Federal Reserve Banks--and excludes securities sold and scheduled to be bought back under matched sale-purchase transactions.

(3.) Includes compensation that adjusts for the effects of inflation on the principal of inflation-indexed securities.

(4.) Excludes required clearing balances and adjustments to compensate for float.

1.12 RESERVES AND BORROWINGS Depository Institutions(1)

Millions of dollars
                              Prorated monthly averages of
                                    biweekly averages

  Reserve classification        1996      1997      1998

                                Dec.      Dec.      Dec.

 1 Reserve balances with      13,330    10,664     9,021
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)        44,525    44,740    44,305
 3   Applied vault cash(4)    37,844    37,255    35,997
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)     6,681     7,485     8,308
 5 Total reserves(6)          51,174    47,920    45,018
 6   Required reserves        49,758    46,235    43,435
 7   Excess reserve            1,416     1,685     1,583
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at           155       324       117
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings          68        79        15
10   Extended credit(9)            0         0         0

                             Biweekly averages of daily figures
                               for two week periods ending on
                                      dates indicated

                                            1999

                                 Jan. 27   Feb. 10   Feb. 24

 1 Reserve balances with          10,019     8,750     8,233
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)            44,837    49,363    45,597
 3   Applied vault cash(4)        36,847    38,649    35,997
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)         7,990    10,714     9,600
 5 Total reserves(6)              46,866    47,399    44,230
 6   Required reserves            45,878    46,181    43,041
 7   Excess reserve                  988     1,217     1,189
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at                68       158       112
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings               5         8         9
10   Extended credit(9)                0         0         0

                                  Prorated monthly averages of
                                        biweekly averages

  Reserve classification             1998                1999

                                Nov.      Dec.      Jan.       Feb.

 1 Reserve balances with       8,855     9,021     9,658      8,578
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)        43,104    44,305    45,499     46,468
 3   Applied vault cash(4)    35,297    35,997    36,687     36,660
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)     7,807     8,308     8,812      9,809
 5 Total reserves(6)          44,152    45,018    46,345     45,237
 6   Required reserves        42,528    43,435    44,811     44,022
 7   Excess reserve            1,624     1,583     1,534      1,215
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at            83       117       206        116
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings          37        15         7          9
10   Extended credit(9)            0         0         0          0

                             Biweekly average of daily figures for
                               two week periods ending on dates
                                           indicated

                                              1999

                             Mar. 10   Mar. 24    Apr. 7    Apr. 21

 1 Reserve balances with       9,356     8,309     9,213      8,409
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)        42,284    43,524    42,525     42,348
 3   Applied vault cash(4)    34,007    34,521    34,147     34,422
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)     8,277     9,004     8,378      7,926
 5 Total reserves(6)          43,362    42,830    43,360     42,831
 6   Required reserves        42,062    41,613    41,872     41,915
 7   Excess reserve            1,300     1,217     1,487        916
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at            22        63       130        149
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings          14        18        24         33
10   Extended credit(9)            0         0         0          0

                               Prorated monthly averages
                                  of biweekly averages

  Reserve classification                  1999

                                Mar.   Apr.(r)       May

 1 Reserve balances with       8,851     9,238    10,070
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)        42,898    42,162    42,456
 3   Applied vault cash(4)    34,270    34,407    34,808
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)     8,628     7,756     7,647
 5 Total reserves(6)          43,121    43,645    44,879
 6   Required reserves        41,816    42,486    43,620
 7   Excess reserve            1,305     1,159     1,259
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at            65       166       127
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings          18        39        89
10   Extended credit(9)            0         0         0

                              Biweekly averages of daily figures
                                for two week periods ending on
                                       dates indicated

                                             1999

                                  May 5(r)   May 19   June 2

 1 Reserve balances with            10,547    9,878   10,097
    Reserve Banks(2)
 2 Total vault cash(3)              41,592   42,560   42,694
 3   Applied vault cash(4)          34,586   34,749   34,971
 4   Surplus vault cash(5)           7,007    7,811    7,724
 5 Total reserves(6)                45,133   44,626   45,068
 6   Required reserves              43,852   43,533   43,625
 7   Excess reserve                  1,281    1,093    1,442
      balances at Reserve
      Banks(7)
 8 Total borrowings at                 223      103      117
    Reserve Banks(8)
 9   Seasonal borrowings                59       85      106
10   Extended credit(9)                  0        0        0


(1.) Data in this table also appear in the Board's H.3 (502) weekly statistical release. For ordering address, see inside front coven Data are not break-adjusted or seasonally adjusted.

(2.) Excludes required clearing balances and adjustments to compensate for float and includes other off-balance-sheet "as-of" adjustments.

(3.) Vault cash eligible to satisfy reserve requirements. It includes only vault cash held by those banks and thrifts that are not exempt from reserve requirements. Dates refer to the maintenance periods in which the vault cash can be used to satisfy reserve requirements.

(4.) All vault cash held during the lagged computation period by "bound" institutions (that is, those whose required reserves exceed their vault cash) plus the amount of vault cash applied during the maintenance period by "nonbound" institutions (that is, those whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves) to satisfy current reserve requirements.

(5.) Total vault cash (line 2) less applied vault cash (line 3).

(6.) Reserve balances with Federal Reserve Banks (line 1) plus applied vault cash (line 3).

(7.) Total reserves (line 5) less required reserves (line 6).

(8.) Also includes adjustment credit.

(9.) Consists of borrowing at the discount window under the terms and conditions established for the extended credit program to help depository institutions deal with sustained liquidity pressures. Because there is not the same need to repay such borrowing promptly as with traditional short-term adjustment credit, the money market effect of extended credit is similar to that of nonborrowed reserves.
1.14 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK INTEREST RATES

Percent per year

                       Current and previous levels

                           Adjustment credit(1)
Federal Reserve     On
     Bank         7/9/99   Effective date   Previous rate

Boston             4.50       11/18/98          4.75
New York           4.50       11/17/98          4.75
Philadelphia       4.50       11/17/98          4.75
Cleveland          4.50       11/19/98          4.75
Richmond           4.50       11/18/98          4.75
Atlanta            4.50       11/18/98          4.75

Chicago            4.50       11/19/98          4.75
St. Louis          4.50       11/19/98          4.75
Minneapolis        4.50       11/19/98          4.75
Kansas City        4.50       11/18/98          4.75
Dallas             4.50       11/17/98          4.75
San Francisco      4.50       11/17/98          4.75

                       Current and previous levels

                           Seasonal credit(2)
Federal Reserve     On
     Bank         7/9/99   Effective date   Previous rate

Boston             5.00        7/1/99           4.90
New York           5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Philadelphia       5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Cleveland          5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Richmond           5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Atlanta            5.00        7/1/99           4.90

Chicago            5.00        7/1/99           4.90
St. Louis          5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Minneapolis        5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Kansas City        5.00        7/1/99           4.90
Dallas             5.00        7/1/99           4.90
San Francisco      5.00        7/1/99           4.90

                       Current and previous levels

                           Extended credit(3)
Federal Reserve     On
     Bank         7/9/99   Effective date   Previous rate

Boston             5.50        7/1/99           5.40
New York           5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Philadelphia       5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Cleveland          5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Richmond           5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Atlanta            5.50        7/1/99           5.40

Chicago            5.50        7/1/99           5.40
St. Louis          5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Minneapolis        5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Kansas City        5.50        7/1/99           5.40
Dallas             5.50        7/1/99           5.40
San Francisco      5.50        7/1/99           5.40

Range of rates for adjustment credit in recent years(4)

                          Range (or    F.R. Bank
Effective date           level)--All      of
                         F.R. Banks      N.Y.

In effect Dec 31, 1977        6           6

1978--Jan. 9                6-6.5         6.5
          20                  6.5         6.5
      May 11                6.5-7         7
          12                  7           7
      July 3               7-7.25         7.25
          10                 7.25         7.25
     Aug. 21                 7.75         7.75
     Sep. 22                  8           8
     Oct. 16                8-8.5         8.5
          20                 8.5          8.5
      Nov. 1               8.5-9.5        9.5
           3                 9.5          9.5

1979--July 20                10          10
      Aug. 17              10-10.5       10.5
           20               10.5         10.5
      Sep. 19              10.5-11       11
           21                11          11
       Oct. 8               11-12        12
           10                12          12
1980--Feb .15               12-13        13
           19                13          13
      May  29               12-13        13
           30                12          12
      June 13               11-12        11
           16                11          11
      July 28               10-11        10
           29                10          10
      Sep. 26                11          11
      Nov. 17                12          12
      Dec.  5               12-13        13
            8                13          13
1981--May   5               13-14        14
            8                14          14
       Nov. 2               13-14        13
            6                13          13
       Dec. 4                12          12

1982--July 20              11.5-12       11.5
           23               11.5         11.5
       Aug. 2              11-11.5       11
            3                11          11
           16               10.5         10.5
           27              10-10.5       10
           30                10          10
      Oct. 12              9.5-10         9.5
           13                9.5          9.5
      Nov. 22               9-9.5         9
           26                 9           9
      Dec. 14               8.5-9         9
           15               8.5-9         8.5
           17                8.5          8.5
1984--Apr.  9               8.5-9         9
           13                 9           9
      Nov. 21               8.5-9         8.5
           26                8.5          8.5
      Dec. 24                 8           8
1985--May  20               7.5-8         7.5
           24                7.5          7.5
1986--Mar.  7               7-7.5         7
           10                 7           7
      Apr. 21             6.5-7           6.5
           23                6.5          6.5
      July 11                 6           6
      Aug. 21               5.5-6         5.5
           22                5.5          5.5
1987--Sept. 4               5.5-6         6
           11                 6           6
1988--Aug.  9               6-6.5         6.5
           11                6.5          6.5
1989--Feb. 24               6.5-7         7
           27                 7           7

1990--Dec. 19                6.5          6.5
1991--Feb.  1               6-6.5         6
            4                 6           6
      Apr. 30               5.5-6         5.5
       May  2                5.5          5.5
     Sept. 13               5-5.5         5
           17                 5           5
       Nov. 6               4.5-5         4.5
            7                4.5          4.5
      Dec. 20              3.5-4.5        3.5
           24                3.5          3.5
1992--July  2               3-3.5         3
            7                 3           3
1994--May  17               3-3.5         3.5
           18                3.5          3.5
      Aug. 16               3.5-4         4
           18                 4           4
      Nov. 15              4-4.75         4.75
           17               4.75          4.75
1995--Feb.  1            4.75-5.25        5.25
            9               5.25          5.25
1996--Jan. 31            5.00-5.25        5.00
      Feb.  5               5.00          5.00
1998--Oct. 15            4.75-5.00        4.75
      Oct. 16               4.75          4.75
1998--Nov. 17            4.50-4.75        4.50
      Nov. 19               4.50          4.50
In effect July 9, 1999      4.50          4.50


(1.) Available on a short-term basis to help depository institutions meet temporary needs for funds that cannot be met through reasonable alternative sources. The highest rate established for loans to depository institutions may be charged on adjustment credit loans of unusual size that result from a major operating problem at the borrower's facility.

(2.) Available to help relatively small depository institutions meet regular seasonal needs for funds that arise from a clear pattern of intrayearly movements in their deposits and loans and that cannot be met through special industry lenders. The discount rate on seasonal credit takes into account rates charged by market sources of funds and ordinarily is reestablished on the first business day of each two-week reserve maintenance period; however, it is never less than the discount rate applicable to adjustment credit.

(3.) May be made available to depository institutions when similar assistance is not reasonably available from other sources, including special industry lenders. Such credit may be provided when exceptional circumstances (including sustained deposit drains, impaired access to money market funds, or sudden deterioration in loan repayment performance) or practices involve only a particular institution, or to meet the needs of institutions experiencing difficulties adjusting to changing market conditions over a longer period (particularly at times of deposit disintermediation). The discount rate applicable to adjustment credit ordinarily is charged on extended-credit loans outstanding less than thirty days; however, at the discretion of the Federal Reserve Bank, this time period may be shortened. Beyond this initial period, a flexible rate somewhat above rates charged on market sources of funds is charged. The rate ordinarily is reestablished on the first business day of each two-week reserve maintenance period, but it is never less than the discount rate applicable to adjustment credit plus 50 basis points.

(4.) For earlier data, see the following publications of the Board of Governors: Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1914-1941, and 1941-1970; and the Annual Statistical Digest, 1970-1979. In 1980 and 1981, the Federal Reserve applied a surcharge to short-term adjustment-credit borrowings by institutions with deposits of $500 million or more that had borrowed in successive weeks or in more than four weeks in a calendar quarter. A 3 percent surcharge was in effect from Mar. 17, 1980, through May 7, 1980. A surcharge of 2 percent was reimposed on Nov. 17, 1980; the surcharge was subsequently raised to 3 percent on Dec. 5, 1980, and to 4 percent on May 5, 1981. The surcharge was reduced to 3 percent effective Sept. 22, 1981, and to 2 percent effective Oct. 12, 1981. As of Oct. 1, 1981, the formula for applying the surcharge was changed from a calendar quarter to a moving thirteen-week period. The surcharge was eliminated on Nov. 17, 1981.
1.15 RESERVE REQUIREMENTS OF DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS(1)

Type of deposit                           Requirement

                                 Percentage of   Effective date
                                   deposits

Net transaction accounts(2)

1 $0 million-S46.5 million(3)          3            12/31/98
2 More than $46.5 million(4)          10            12/31/98
3 Nonpersonal time deposits(5)         0            12/27/90
4 Eurocurrency liabilities(6)          0            12/27/90


(1.) Required reserves must be held in the form of deposits with Federal Reserve Banks or vault cash. Nonmember institutions may maintain reserve balances with a Federal Reserve Bank indirectly, on a pass-through basis, with certain approved institutions. For previous reserve requirements, see earlier editions of the Annual Report or the Federal Reserve Bulletin. Under the Monetary Control Act of 1980, depository institutions include commercial banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, agencies and branches of foreign banks, and Edge Act corporations.

(2.) Transaction accounts include all deposits against which the account holder is permitted to make withdrawals by negotiable or transferable instruments, payment orders of withdrawal, or telephone or preauthorized transfers for the purpose of making payments to third persons or others. However, accounts subject to the roles that permit no more than six preauthorized, automatic, or other transfers per month (of which no more than three may be by check, draft, debit card, or similar order payable directly to third parties) are savings deposits, not transaction accounts.

(3.) The Monetary Control Act of 1980 requires that the amount of transaction accounts against which the 3 percent reserve requirement applies be modified annually by 80 percent of the percentage change in transaction accounts held by all depository institutions, determined as of June 30 of each year. Effective with the reserve maintenance period beginning December 31, 1998, for depository institutions that report weekly, and with the period beginning January 14, 1999, for institutions that report quarterly, the amount was decreased from $47.8 million to $46.5 million.

Under the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982, the Board adjusts the amount of reservable liabilities subject to a zero percent reserve requirement each year for the succeeding calendar year by 80 percent of the percentage increase in the total reservable liabilities of all depository institutions, measured on an annual basis as of June 30. No corresponding adjustment is made in the event of a decrease. The exemption applies only to accounts that would be subject to a 3 percent reserve requirement. Effective with the reserve maintenance period beginning December 31, 1998, for depository institutions that report weekly, and with the period beginning January 14, 1999, for institutions that report quarterly, the exemption was raised from $4.7 million to $4.9 million.

(4.) The reserve requirement was reduced from 12 percent to 10 percent on Apr. 2, 1992, for institutions that report weekly, and on Apr. 16, 1992, for institutions that report quarterly.

(5.) For institutions that report weekly, the reserve requirement on nonpersonal time deposits with an original maturity of less than 1/2 years was reduced from 3 percent to 1/2 percent for the maintenance period that began Dec. 13, 1990, and to zero for the maintenance period that began Dec. 27, 1990. For institutions that report quarterly, the reserve requirement on nonpersonal time deposits with an original maturity of less than 11/2 years was reduced from 3 percent to zero on Jan. 17, 1991.

The reserve requirement on nonpersonal time deposits with an original maturity of 1 1/2 years or more has been zero since Oct. 6, 1983.

(6.) The reserve requirement on Eurocurrency liabilities was reduced from 3 percent to zero in the same manner and on the same dates as the reserve requirement on nonpersonal time deposits with an original maturity of less than 1 1/2 years (see note 5).
1.17 FEDERAL RESERVE OPEN MARKET TRANSACTIONS(1)

Millions of dollars

  Type of transaction       1996        1997        1998
     and maturity

     US TREASURY
     SECURITIES(2)

  Outright transactions
    (excluding matched
    transactions)

  Treasury bills

1 Gross purchases             9,901       9,147       3,550
2 Gross sales                     0           0           0
3 Exchanges                 426,928     436,257     450,835
4 For new bills             426,928     435,907     450,835
5 Redemptions                     0           0       2,000

 Others within one year

6 Gross purchases               524       5,549       6,297
7 Gross sales                     0           0           0
8 Maturity shifts            30,512      41,716      46,062
9 Exchanges                 -41,394     -27,499     -49,434
10 Redemptions                2,015       1,996       2,676

  One to five years

11 Gross purchases            3,898      19,680      12,901
12 Gross sales                    0           0           0
13 Maturity shifts          -25,022     -37,987     -37,777
14 Exchanges                 31,459      20,274      37,154

  Five to ten years

15 Gross purchases            1,116       3,849       2,294
16 Gross sales                    0           0           0
17 Maturity shifts           -5,469      -1,954      -5,908
18 Exchanges                  6,666       5,215       7,439

  More than ten years

19 Gross purchases            1,655       5,897       4,884
20 Gross sales                    0           0           0
21 Maturity shifts              -20      -1,775      -2,377
22 Exchanges                  3,270       2,360       4,842

  All maturities

23 Gross purchases           17,094      44,122      29,926
24 Gross sales                    0           0           0
25 Redemptions                2,015       1,996       4,676

  Matched transactions

26 Gross purchases        3,092,399   3,577,954   4,395,430
27 Gross sales            3,094,769   3,580,274   4,399,330

  Repurchase agreements

28 Gross purchases          457,568     810,485     512,671
29 Gross sales              450,359     809,268     514,186

30 Net change in US          19,919      41,022      19,835
 Treasury securities

    FEDERAL AGENCY
      OBLIGATIONS

  Outright transactions

31 Gross purchases                0           0           0
32 Gross sales                    0           0          25
33 Redemptions                  409       1,540         322

  Repurchase agreements

34 Gross purchases           75,354     160,409     284,316
35 Gross sales               74,842     159,369     276,266
36 Net change in                103        -500       7,703
 federal agency
 obligations
37 Total net Change in       20,021      40,522      27,538
 System Open Market
 Account

  Type of transaction                1998                 1999
     and maturity
                            Oct.      Nov.      Dec.      Jan.
     US TREASURY
     SECURITIES(2)

  Outright transactions
    (excluding matched
    transactions)

  Treasury bills

1 Gross purchases               0         0         0         0
2 Gross sales                   0         0         0         0
3 Exchanges                40,712    34,957    41,393    35,069
4 For new bills            40,712    34,957    41,393    35,069
5 Redemptions                   0         0         0         0

 Others within one year

6 Gross purchases             741       662         0         0
7 Gross sales                   0         0         0         0
8 Maturity shifts           2,423     5,444     2,539     2,865
9 Exchanges                  -400    -8,093    -2,555      -400
10 Redemptions                602         0         0       492

  One to five years

11 Gross purchases            725     2,397         0         0
12 Gross sales                  0         0         0         0
13 Maturity shifts         -2,423    -4,574    -2,539    -2,865
14 Exchanges                    0     6,013     2,555         0

  Five to ten years

15 Gross purchases              0       862         0         0
16 Gross sales                  0         0         0         0
17 Maturity shifts              0       718         0         0
18 Exchanges                  400     1,135         0       400

  More than ten years

19 Gross purchases          1,674       698         0       615
20 Gross sales                  0         0         0         0
21 Maturity shifts              0    -1,589         0         0
22 Exchanges                    0       945         0         0

  All maturities

23 Gross purchases          3,140     4,619         0       615
24 Gross sales                  0         0         0         0
25 Redemptions                602         0         0       492

  Matched transactions

26 Gross purchases        402,581   358,438   418,538   365,779
27 Gross sales            400,995   359,256   420,397   363,604

  Repurchase agreements

28 Gross purchases         40,823    23,884    49,296    21,968
29 Gross sales             48,672    19,200    38,592    37,157

30 Net change in US        -3,725     8,484     8,845   -12,891
 Treasury securities

    FEDERAL AGENCY
      OBLIGATIONS

  Outright transactions

31 Gross purchases              0         0         0         0
32 Gross sales                  0         0         0         0
33 Redemptions                 15        20        30         2

  Repurchase agreements

34 Gross purchases         51,471    51,419    48,815    23,577
35 Gross sales             50,032    48,785    44,285    31,744
36 Net change in            1,424     2,614     4,500    -8,169
 federal agency
 obligations
37 Total net Change in     -2,301    11,098    13,345   -21,060
 System Open Market
 Account

  Type of transaction
     and maturity                      1999
                             Feb.      Mar.      Apr.
     US TREASURY
     SECURITIES(2)

  Outright transactions
    (excluding matched
    transactions)

  Treasury bills

1 Gross purchases               0         0         0
2 Gross sales                   0         0         0
3 Exchanges                36,862    35,065    48,142
4 For new bills            36,862    35,065    48,142
5 Redemptions                   0         0         0

 Others within one year

6 Gross purchases           2,103     1,060     1,677
7 Gross sales                   0         0         0
8 Maturity shifts           5,578     3,015     3,768
9 Exchanges                -7,458    -5,956    -3,370
10 Redemptions                  0         0       726

  One to five years

11 Gross purchases          2,752     2,428     3,362
12 Gross sales                  0         0         0
13 Maturity shifts         -4,928    -3,015    -3,768
14 Exchanges                4,778     5,956     3,020

  Five to ten years

15 Gross purchases            335       346       945
16 Gross sales                  0         0         0
17 Maturity shifts           -650         0         0
18 Exchanges                1,340         0         0

  More than ten years

19 Gross purchases              0     2,404       262
20 Gross sales                  0         0         0
21 Maturity shifts              0         0         0
22 Exchanges                1,340         0       350

  All maturities

23 Gross purchases          5,190     6,238     6,246
24 Gross sales                  0         0         0
25 Redemptions                  0         0       726

  Matched transactions

26 Gross purchases        324,078   393,267   366,838
27 Gross sales            322,669   394,865   364,476

  Repurchase agreements

28 Gross purchases         26,098    62,878    45,067
29 Gross sales             27,025    53,706    48,867

30 Net change in US         5,672    13,812     4,082
 Treasury securities

    FEDERAL AGENCY
      OBLIGATIONS

  Outright transactions

31 Gross purchases              0         0         0
32 Gross sales                  0         0         0
33 Redemptions                  0        25         0

  Repurchase agreements

34 Gross purchases         37,416    35,731    20,623
35 Gross sales             36,067    34,009    22,937
36 Net change in            1,349     1,697    -2,314
 federal agency
 obligations
37 Total net Change in      7,021    15,509     1,768
 System Open Market
 Account


(1) Sales, redemptions, and negative figures reduce holdings of the System Open Market Account; all other figures increase such holdings.

(2) Transactions exclude changes in compensation for the effects of inflation on the principal of inflation-indexed securities.

1.18 FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS Condition and Federal Reserve Note Statements(1)
Millions of dollars

                                                 Wednesday

           Account                                  1999

                                       Apr. 28    May 5    May 12

                                           Consolidated condition
                                                  statement

               ASSETS

1 Gold certificate account              11,048    11,049    11,049
2 Special drawing rights                 8,200     8,200     8,200
 certificate account
3 Coin                                     416       411       407

  Loans

4 To depository institutions                66        90        81
5 Other                                      0         0         0
6 Acceptances held under                     0         0         0
 repurchase agreements

  Federal agency obligations

7 Bought outright                          311       311       311
8 Held under repurchase agreements       3,015     2,488     3,136

9 Total US Treasury securities         480,357   483,179   477,377

10 Bought outright(2)                  473,627   473,474   475,914
11 Bills                               199,175   199,020   198,629
12 Notes                               199,721   199,723   202,094
13 Bonds                                74,730    74,731    75,192
14 Held under repurchase agreements      6,730     9,705     1,463

15 Total loans and securities          483,748   486,067   480,905

16 Items in process of collection        8,254    10,747     8,332
17 Bank premiSes                         1,311     1,311     1,311

  Other assets

18 Denominated in foreign currencies    15,263    15,037    15,041
19  All other(4)                        17,496    17,634    17,266

20 Total assets                        545,736   550,456   542,511

            LIABILITIES

21 Federal Reserve notes               494,606   496,328   497,666

22 Total deposits                       26,392    28,381    20,271

23 Depository institutions              17,442    22,932    15,715
24 US Treasury--General account          8,545     4,999     4,095
25 Foreign--Official accounts              168       167       178
26 Other                                   237       283       282

27 Deferred credit items                 7,682     8,743     7,371
28 Other liabilities and                 4,230     4,411     4,327
 accrued dividends(5)

29 Total liabilities                   532,911   537,863   529,634

          CAPITAL ACCOUNTS

30 Capital paid in                       6,180     6,187     6,204
31 Surplus                               5,952     5,952     5,952
32 Other capital accounts                  693       454       721

33 Total liabilities and               545,736   550,456   542,511
 capita; accounts

  MEMO

34 Marketable US Treasury                  na        na      na
 securities held in custody for
 foreign and international
 accounts

                                             Federal Reserve
                                              note statement

35 Federal Reserve notes               685,435   690,922   697,001
 outstanding (issued to Banks)
36 LESS: Held by Federal               190,828   194,594   199,335
 Reserve Banks
37 Federal Reserve notes, net          494,606   496,328   497,666

  Collateral held against
   notes, net

38 Gold certificate account             11,048    11,049    11,049
39 Special drawing rights                8,200     8,200     8,200
 certificate account
40 Other eligible assets                     0         0         0
41 US Treasury and agency securities   475,358   477,079   478,417

42 Total collateral                    494,606   496,328   497,666

                                             Wednesday

           Account                             1999

                                        May 19    May 26

                                        Consolidated condition
                                             statement

               ASSETS

1 Gold certificate account              11,048    11,048
2 Special drawing rights                 8,200     8,200
 certificate account
3 Coin                                     406       381

  Loans

4 To depository institutions               101       119
5 Other                                      0         0
6 Acceptances held under                     0         0
 repurchase agreements

  Federal agency obligations

7 Bought outright                          311       311
8 Held under repurchase agreements       5,648     3,522

9 Total US Treasury securities         482,120   483,194

10 Bought outright(2)                  477,335   480,718
11 Bills                               196,641   197,059
12 Notes                               203,965   206,125
13 Bonds                                76,729    77,533
14 Held under repurchase agreements      4,785     2,476

15 Total loans and securities          488,179   487,145

16 Items in process of collection        8,041     7,099
17 Bank premiSes                         1,315     1,316

  Other assets

18 Denominated in foreign currencies    15,044    15,050
19  All other(4)                        14,886    15,465

20 Total assets                        547,118   545,704

            LIABILITIES

21 Federal Reserve notes               497,864   500,129

22 Total deposits                       24,605    21,528

23 Depository institutions              19,329    15,982
24 US Treasury--General account          4,783     5,101
25 Foreign--Official accounts              188       211
26 Other                                   305       235

27 Deferred credit items                 7,405     6,927
28 Other liabilities and                 4,318     4,185
 accrued dividends(5)

29 Total liabilities                   534,191   532,769

          CAPITAL ACCOUNTS

30 Capital paid in                       6,213     6,238
31 Surplus                               5,952     5,952
32 Other capital accounts                  762       745

33 Total liabilities and               547,118   545,704
 capita; accounts

  MEMO

34 Marketable US Treasury                  na        na
 securities held in custody for
 foreign and international
 accounts

                                        Federal Reserve
                                         note statement

35 Federal Reserve notes               703,827   709,370
 outstanding (issued to Banks)
36 LESS: Held by Federal               205,963   209,241
 Reserve Banks
37 Federal Reserve notes, net          497,864   500,129

  Collateral held against
   notes, net

38 Gold certificate account             11,048    11,048
39 Special drawing rights                8,200     8,200
 certificate account
40 Other eligible assets                     0         0
41 US Treasury and agency securities   478,616   480,881

42 Total collateral                    497,864   500,129

                                                End of month

           Account                                  1999

                                        Mar. 31   Apr. 30   May 31

                                           Consolidated condition
                                                  statement

               ASSETS

1 Gold certificate account              11,049    11,050    11,048
2 Special drawing rights                 8,200     8,200     8,200
 certificate account
3 Coin                                     428       430       372

  Loans

4 To depository institutions               246        68       121
5 Other                                      0         0         0
6 Acceptances held under                     0         0         0
 repurchase agreements

  Federal agency obligations

7 Bought outright                          311       311       311
8 Held under repurchase agreements       5,606     3,292     4,497

9 Total US Treasury securities         478,416   482,503   488,535

10 Bought outright(2)                  465,686   473,573   482,531
11 Bills                               196,759   199,121   197,719
12 Notes                               194,968   199,721   207,108
13 Bonds                                73,959    74,731    77,704
14 Held under repurchase agreements     12,730     8,930     6,004

15 Total loans and securities          484,578   486,174   493,463

16 Items in process of collection        7,097     5,248     5,658
17 Bank premiSes                         1,303     1,310     1,315

  Other assets

18 Denominated in foreign currencies    15,171    15,034    14,860
19  All other(4)                        16,126    17,336    16,164

20 Total assets                        543,952   544,782   551,080

            LIABILITIES

21 Federal Reserve notes               491,715   493,590   501,685

22 Total deposits                       28,316    28,623    26,577

23 Depository institutions              22,541    18,061    21,140
24 US Treasury--General account          5,374    10,040     5,056
25 Foreign--Official accounts              166       260       157
26 Other                                   235       263       223

27 Deferred credit items                 7,117     5,354     5,243
28 Other liabilities and                 4,328     4,493     4,474
 accrued dividends(5)

29 Total liabilities                   531,475   632,062   537,979

          CAPITAL ACCOUNTS

30 Capital paid in                       6,122     6,182     6,239
31 Surplus                               5,944     5,952     5,952
32 Other capital accounts                  411       586       911

33 Total liabilities and               543,952   544,782   551,080
 capita; accounts

  MEMO

34 Marketable US Treasury                  na        na        na
 securities held in custody for
 foreign and international
 accounts

                                            Federal Reserve
                                             note statement

35 Federal Reserve notes               665,942   687,900   710,687
 outstanding (issued to Banks)
36 LESS: Held by Federal               174,228   194,309   209,002
 Reserve Banks
37 Federal Reserve notes, net          491,715   493,590   501,685

  Collateral held against
   notes, net

38 Gold certificate account             11,049    11,050    11,048
39 Special drawing rights                8,200     8,200     8,200
 certificate account
40 Other eligible assets                     0         0         0
41 US Treasury and agency securities   472,466   474,340   482,437

42 Total collateral                    491,715   493,590   501,685


(1) Some of the data in this table also appear in the Board's H41 (503) weekly statistical release For ordering address, see inside front cover.

(2) Includes securities loaned--fully guaranteed by US Treasury securities pledged with Federal Reserve Banks--and includes compensation that adjusts for the effects of inflation on the principal of inflation-indexed securities Excludes securities sold and scheduled to be bought back under matched sale-purchase transactions.

(3) Valued monthly at market exchange rates

(4) Includes special investment account at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in Treasury bills maturing within ninety days.

(5) Includes exchange-translation account reflecting the monthly revaluation at market exchange rates of foreign exchange commitments.

1.19 FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS Maturity Distribution of Loan and Security Holding
                                               Wednesday

   Type of holding and maturity                  1999

                                      Apr. 28    May 5    May 12

1 Total loans                              66        89        81
2 Within fifteen days(1)                   52        29        26
3 Sixteen days to ninety days              14        60        55
4 Total US Treasury securities(2)     480,357   483,179   477,377
5 Within fifteen days(1)               22,035    23,146    17,697
6 Sixteen days to ninety days         100,866    97,850    97,741
7 Ninety-one days to one year         134,011   138,846   139,255
8 One year to five years              115,258   115,148   116,365
9 Five years to ten years              47,545    47,547    48,271
10 More than ten years                 60,642    60,643    61,049
11 Total federal agency obligations     3,326     2,799     3,447
12 Within fifteen days(1)               3,015     2,488     3,136
13 Sixteen days to ninety days             37        37        62
14 Ninety-one days to one year             79        79        79
15 One year to five years                  20        20        20
16 Five years to ten years                175       175       150
17 More than ten years                      0         0         0

   Type of holding and maturity          Wednesday

                                      May 19    May 26

1 Total loans                             101       119
2 Within fifteen days(1)                   89       107
3 Sixteen days to ninety days              12        12
4 Total US Treasury securities(2)     482,120   483,194
5 Within fifteen days(1)               17,737    18,577
6 Sixteen days to ninety days          95,143    97,933
7 Ninety-one days to one year         138,833   134,250
8 One year to five years              120,213   121,435
9 Five years to ten years              48,528    48,530
10 More than ten years                 61,664    62,469
11 Total federal agency obligations     5,969     3,833
12 Within fifteen days(1)               5,648     3,570
13 Sixteen days to ninety days             62        14
14 Ninety-one days to one year             79        79
15 One year to five years                  20        20
16 Five years to ten years                150       150
17 More than ten years                      0         0

                                             End of month

   Type of holding and maturity                  1999

                                      Mar. 31   Apr. 30    May 31

1 Total loans                              65        68       121
2 Within fifteen days(1)                   64        40        75
3 Sixteen days to ninety days               1        28        47
4 Total US Treasury securities(2)     478,416   482,503   488,535
5 Within fifteen days(1)               26,785    13,804     9,131
6 Sixteen days to ninety days          98,303   103,293   106,365
7 Ninety-one days to one year         134,439   142,071   139,450
8 One year to five years              112,263   115,147   121,571
9 Five years to ten years              46,598    47,546    49,403
10 More than ten years                 60,029    60,642    62,615
11 Total federal agency obligations     5,917     3,603     4,808
12 Within fifteen days(1)               5,606     3,292     4,545
13 Sixteen days to ninety days             27        37        25
14 Ninety-one days to one year             79        79        68
15 One year to five years                  30        20        20
16 Five years to ten years                175       175       150
17 More than ten years                      0         0         0


(1) Holdings under repurchase agreements are classified as maturing within fifteen days in accordance with maximum maturity of the agreements.

(2) Includes compensation that adjusts for the effects of inflation on the principal of inflation-indexed securities.

1.20 AGGREGATE RESERVES OF DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS AND MONETARY BASE(1)
Item                          1995     1996     1997     1998
                              Dec.     Dec.     Dec.     Dec.

                                     Seasonally adjusted

ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(2)

1 Total reserves(3)          56.45    50.16    46.86    44.90
2 Nonborrowed reserves(4)    56.20    50.01    46.54    44.79
3 Nonborrowed reserves       15.62    50.01    46.54    44.79
plus extended credit(5)
4 Required reserves          55.16    48.75    45.18    43.32
                            434.10   451.37   478.88   512.32
5 Monetary base(6)           58.02    51.45    48.01    45.12
6 Total reserves(7)          57.76    51.30    47.69    45.00
7 Nonborrowed reserves       57.76    51.30    47.69    45.00
8 Nonborrowed reserves       56.73    50.04    46.33    43.54
plus extended credit(5)
9 Required reserves         439.03   456.63   484.98   518.28
10 Monetary base(9)

                                   Not seasonally adjusted

NOT ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(10)

11 Total reserves(11)        57.90    51.17    47.92    45.02
12 Nonborrowed reserves      57.64    51.02    47.60    44.90
13 Nonborrowed reserves      57.64    51.02    47.60    44.90
plus extended credit(5)
14 Required reserves         56.61    49.76    46.24    43.44
15 Monetary base(12)        444.45    46.34   491.79   525.06
16 Excess reserves(13)        1.29     1.42     1.69     1.58
17 Borrowings from the         .26      .16      .32      .12
Federal Reserve

Item                                1998

                             Oct.    Nov.    Dec.

                             Seasonally adjusted

ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(2)

1 Total reserves(3)          44.41    44.50    44.90
2 Nonborrowed reserves(4)    44.23    44.41    44.79
3 Nonborrowed reserves       44.23    44.41    44.79
plus extended credit(5)
4 Required reserves          42.83    42.87    43.32
                            505.84   509.14   512.32
5 Monetary base(6)           44.20    44.24    45.12
6 Total reserves(7)          44.03    44.16    45.00
7 Nonborrowed reserves       44.03    44.16    45.00
8 Nonborrowed reserves       42.63    42.62    43.54
plus extended credit(5)
9 Required reserves         504.47   510.14   518.28
10 Monetary base(9)

                              Not seasonally adjusted

NOT ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(10)

11 Total reserves(11)        44.12    44.15    45.02
12 Nonborrowed reserves      43.94    44.07    44.90
13 Nonborrowed reserves      43.94    44.07    44.90
plus extended credit(5)
14 Required reserves         42.54    42.53    43.44
15 Monetary base(12)        511.36   516.96   525.06
16 Excess reserves(13)        1.57     1.62     1.58
17 Borrowings from the         .17      .08      .12
Federal Reserve

Item                                   1999
                              Jan.     Feb.     Mar.

                               Seasonally adjusted

ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(2)

1 Total reserves(3)          45.13    44.55    43.72
2 Nonborrowed reserves(4)    44.92    44.44    43.65
3 Nonborrowed reserves       44.92    44.44    43.65
plus extended credit(5)
4 Required reserves          43.59    43.34    42.41
                            516.81   520.84   524.23
5 Monetary base(6)           46.34    45.25    43.14
6 Total reserves(7)          46.14    45.13    43.08
7 Nonborrowed reserves       46.14    45.13    43.08
8 Nonborrowed reserves       44.81    44.03    41.84
plus extended credit(5)
9 Required reserves         520.01    51.97   523.35
10 Monetary base(9)

                              Not seasonally adjusted

NOT ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(10)

11 Total reserves(11)        46.35    45.24    43.12
12 Nonborrowed reserves      46.14    45.12    43.06
13 Nonborrowed reserves      46.14    45.12    43.06
plus extended credit(5)
14 Required reserves         44.81    44.02    41.82
15 Monetary base(12)        527.59   526.85    53.03
16 Excess reserves(13)        1.53     1.22     1.31
17 Borrowings from the         .21      .12      . 7
Federal Reserve

                                     1999

Item                             Apr.        May

                               Seasonally adjusted

ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(2)

1 Total reserves(3)             43.98       44.36
2 Nonborrowed reserves(4)       43.81       44.24
3 Nonborrowed reserves          43.81       44.24
plus extended credit(5)
4 Required reserves             42.82       43.11

5 Monetary base(6)             528.74      534.83
6 Total reserves(7)             43.67       44.91
7 Nonborrowed reserves          43.50(r)    44.79
8 Nonborrowed reserves          43.50(r)    44.79
plus extended credit(5)
9 Required reserves             42.51       43.65
10 Monetary base(9)            526.77(r)   533.09

                               Not seasonally adjusted

NOT ADJUSTED FOR
CHANGES IN RESERVE
REQUIREMENTS(10)

11 Total reserves(11)           43.65       44.88
12 Nonborrowed reserves         43.48       44.75
13 Nonborrowed reserves         43.48       44.75
plus extended credit(5)
14 Required reserves            42.49(r)    43.62
15 Monetary base(12)           533.49(r)   539.96
16 Excess reserves(13)           1.16        1.26
17 Borrowings from the            .17         .13
Federal Reserve


(1) Latest monthly and biweekly figures are available from the Board's H3 (502) weekly statistical release Historical data starting in 1959 and estimates of the effect on required reserves of changes in reserve requirements are available from the Money and Reserves Projections Section, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551.

(2) Figures reflect adjustments for discontinuities, or "breaks," associated with regulatory changes in reserve requirements (See also table 110).

(3) Seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted total reserves equal seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted required reserves (line 4) plus excess reserves (line 16).

(4) Seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted nonborrowed reserves equal seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted total reserves (line 1) less total borrowings of depository institutions from the Federal Reserve (line 17).

(5) Extended credit consists of borrowing at the discount window under the terms and conditions established for the extended credit program to help depository institutions deal with sustained liquidity pressures Because there is not the same need to repay such borrowing promptly as with traditional short-term adjustment credit, the money market effect of extended credit is similar to that of nonborrowed reserves.

(6) The seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted monetary base consists of (1) seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted total reserves (line 1), plus (2) the seasonally adjusted currency component of the money stock, plus (3) (for all quarterly reporters on the "Report of Transaction Accounts, Other Deposits and Vault Cash" and for all those weekly reporters whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves) the seasonally adjusted, break-adjusted difference between current vault cash and the amount applied to satisfy current reserve requirements.

(7) Break-adjusted total reserves equal break-adjusted required reserves (line 9) plus excess reserves (line 16).

(8) To adjust required reserves for discontinuities that are due to regulatory changes in reserve requirements, a multiplicative procedure is used to estimate what required reserves would have been in past periods had current reserve requirements been in effect Break-adjusted required reserves include required reserves against transactions deposits and nonpersonal time and savings deposits (but not reservable nondeposit liabilities).

(9) The break-adjusted monetary base equals (1) break-adjusted total reserves (line 6), plus (2) the (unadjusted) currency component of the money stock, plus (3) (for all quarterly reporters on the "Report of Transaction Accounts, Other Deposits and Vault Cash" and for all those weekly reporters whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves) the break-adjusted difference between current vault cash and the amount applied to satisfy current reserve requirements.

(10) Reflects actual reserve requirements, including those on nondeposit liabilities, with no adjustments to eliminate the effects of discontinuities associated with regulatory changes in reserve requirements.

(11) Reserve balances with Federal Reserve Banks plus vault cash used to satisfy reserve requirements.

(12) The monetary base, not break-adjusted and not seasonally adjusted, consists of (1) total reserves (line 11), plus (2) required clearing balances and adjustments to compensate for float at Federal Reserve Banks, plus (3) the currency component of the money stock, plus (4) (for all quarterly reporters on the "Report of Transaction Accounts, Other Deposits and Vault Cash" and for all those weekly reporters whose vault cash exceeds their required reserves) the difference between current vault cash and the amount applied to satisfy current reserve requirements Since February 1984, currency and vault cash figures have been measured over the computation periods ending on Mondays.

(13) Unadjusted total reserves (line 11) less unadjusted required reserves (line 14).
1.21 MONEY STOCK AND DEBT MEASURES(1)

Billions of dollars, averages of daily figures

                                           1995          1996
                                           Dec.          Dec.

                                        Seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
1 M1                                    1,126.7       1,081.3
2 M2                                    3,249.1       3,823.9
3 M3                                    4,618.5       4,955.6
4 Debt                                 13,697.7(r)   14,392.7(r)

M1 components
5 Currency(3)                             372.3         394.1

Travelers checks(4)                         8.3           8.0
Demand deposits(5)                        389.4         403.0
8 Other checkable deposits(6)             356.7         276.2

Nontransaction components
9 In M2(7)                              2,742.6       2,971.8
10 In M3 only(8)                        1,131.7       1,358.0

Commercial banks
11 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      885.3         905.2
12 Small time deposits(9)                 575.0         593.7
13 Large time deposits(10, 11)            346.6         414.8

Thrift institutions
14 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      359.8         367.1
15 Small time deposits(9)                 356.7         353.8
16 Large time deposits(10)                 74.5          78.4

Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                                 455.5         522.8
18 Institution-only                       255.9         313.3

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements(12)              198.7         211.3
20 Eurodollars(12)                         93.7         113.9

Debt components
21 Federal debt                         3,638.9       3,780.6
22 Nonfederal debt                     10,058.8(r)   10,612.2(r)

                                        Not seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
23 M1                                   1,152.4       1,104.9
24 M2                                   3,671.4       3,843.7
25 M3                                   4,638.0       4,972.5
26 Debt                                13,699.2(r)   14,392.7(r)

M1 components
27 Currency(3)                            376.2         397.9
28 Travelers checks(4)                      8.5           8.3
29 Demand deposits(5)                     407.2         419.9
30 Other checkable deposits(6)            360.5         278.8

Nontransaction components
31 In M27                               2,519.3       2,738.9
32 In M3 only(8)                          966.4       1,128.8

Commercial banks
33 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      774.1         903.3
34 Small time deposits(9)                 573.8         592.7
35 Large time deposits(10, 11)            345.8         413.3

Thrift institutions
36 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      359.2         366.3
37 Small time deposits(9)                 355.9         353.2
38 Large time deposits(10)                 74.3          78.1

Money market mutual funds
39 Retail                                 456.1         523.2
40 Institution-only                       257.7          31.6

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
41 Repurchase agreements(12)              193.8         205.7
42 Eurodollars(12)                         94.9         115.7

Debt components
43 Federal debt                         3,645.9       3,787.9
44 Nonfederal debt                     10,053.3(r)   10,604.8(r)

                                           1997          1998
                                           Dec.          Dec.

                                        Seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
1 M1                                    1,074.9       1,093.4
2 M2                                    4,046.6       4,402.0(r)
3 M3                                    5,404.7       5,997.0(r)
4 Debt                                 15,094.7(r)   16,026.1(r)

M1 components
5 Currency(3)                             424.5         459.2

Travelers checks(4)                         7.7           7.8
Demand deposits(5)                        396.5         377.5
8 Other checkable deposits(6)             246.2         248.8

Nontransaction components
9 In M2(7)                              3,308.7       3,354.3
10 In M3 only(8)                        1,595.0(r)    1,615.1

Commercial banks
11 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,022.9       1,189.8
12 Small time deposits(9)                 626.1         626.0(r)
13 Large time deposits(10, 11)            490.2         541.0(r)

Thrift institutions
14 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      377.3         415.2
15 Small time deposits(9)                 343.2         325.9
16 Large time deposits(10)                 85.9          89.1

Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                                 602.3         751.7
18 Institution-only                       379.9         516.2

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements(12)              252.8         297.9(r)
20 Eurodollars(12)                        149.2         150.7(r)

Debt components
21 Federal debt                         3,798.4       3,747.4
22 Nonfederal debt                     11,296.3(r)   12,278.7(r)

                                        Not seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
23 M1                                   1,097.4       1,115.3
24 M2                                   4,064.8       4,418.8(r)
25 M3                                   5,420.8       6,013.1(r)
26 Debt                                15,094.3(r)   16,026.6(r)

M1 components
27 Currency(3)                            428.9         464.2
28 Travelers checks(4)                      7.9           8.0
29 Demand deposits(5)                     412.3         392.4
30 Other checkable deposits(6)            248.3         250.7

Nontransaction components
31 In M27                               2,967.4       3,303.6
32 In M3 only(8)                          135.6       1,594.3(r)

Commercial banks
33 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,020.4       1,186.8
34 Small time deposits(9)                 625.3         625.4
35 Large time deposits(10, 11)            487.7         537.4(r)

Thrift institutions
36 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      376.4         414.1
37 Small time deposits(9)                 342.8         325.6
38 Large time deposits(10)                 85.4          88.5

Money market mutual funds
39 Retail                                 602.5         751.7
40 Institution-only                       384.5         523.3

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
41 Repurchase agreements(12)              246.1         290.6(r)
42 Eurodollars(12)                        152.3         154.5(r)

Debt components
43 Federal debt                         3,805.8       3,754.9
44 Nonfederal debt                     11,288.5(r)   12,271.6(r)

                                                 1999

                                        Feb.(r)       Mar.(r)

                                        Seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
1 M1                                    1,092.6       1,102.0
2 M2                                    4,446.9       4,457.1
3 M3                                    6,062.0       6,053.7
4 Debt                                 16,165.1      16,259.8

M1 components
5 Currency(3)                             467.6         472.0

Travelers checks(4)                         7.7           7.8
Demand deposits(5)                        371.8         374.1
8 Other checkable deposits(6)             245.5         248.0

Nontransaction components
9 In M2(7)                              3,354.3       3,355.1
10 In M3 only(8)                        1,615.1       1,596.7

Commercial banks
11 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,207.7       1,207.9
12 Small time deposits(9)                 618.0         616.2
13 Large time deposits(10, 11)            536.7         528.4

Thrift institutions
14 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      425.4         428.0
15 Small time deposits(9)                 322.9         320.7
16 Large time deposits(10)                 89.9          88.8

Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                                 780.3         782.3
18 Institution-only                       529.9         529.1

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements(12)              308.6         296.2
20 Eurodollars(12)                        150.0         154.1

Debt components
21 Federal debt                         3,718.2       3,714.7
22 Nonfederal debt                     12,446.9      12,545.2

                                        Not seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
23 M1                                   1,083.4       1,097.2
24 M2                                   4,441.2       4,480.6
25 M3                                   6,070.7       6,092.8
26 Debt                                16,137.2      16,252.4

M1 components
27 Currency(3)                            466.5         471.3
28 Travelers checks(4)                      7.9           7.9
29 Demand deposits(5)                     364.7         368.9
30 Other checkable deposits(6)            244.2          24.9

Nontransaction components
31 In M27                               3,357.9       3,383.4
32 In M3 only(8)                        1,629.5       1,612.2

Commercial banks
33 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,203.8       1,217.6
34 Small time deposits(9)                 619.4         617.0
35 Large time deposits(10, 11)            532.1         532.9

Thrift institutions
36 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      424.0         431.5
37 Small time deposits(9)                 323.6         321.2
38 Large time deposits(10)                 89.1          89.5

Money market mutual funds
39 Retail                                 787.0         796.2
40 Institution-only                       547.3         537.9

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
41 Repurchase agreements(12)              308.1         298.8
42 Eurodollars(12)                        152.7         153.1

Debt components
43 Federal debt                         3,721.8       3,741.2
44 Nonfederal debt                     12,415.4      12,511.2

                                              1999

                                        Apr.(r)       May

                                        Seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
1 M1                                    1,108.3   1,104.6
2 M2                                    4,489.7   4,506.7
3 M3                                    6,094.6   6,116.6
4 Debt                                 16,351.9      n.a.

M1 components
5 Currency(3)                             476.5     480.9

Travelers checks(4)                         7.8       7.8
Demand deposits(5)                        373.9     369.1
8 Other checkable deposits(6)             250.2     246.7

Nontransaction components
9 In M2(7)                              3,381.4   3,402.2
10 In M3 only(8)                        1,604.9   1,609.8

Commercial banks
11 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,225.5   1,233.5
12 Small time deposits(9)                 614.3     613.1
13 Large time deposits(10, 11)            534.0     529.4

Thrift institutions
14 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      431.4     441.2
15 Small time deposits(9)                 319.6     317.7
16 Large time deposits(10)                 89.1       8.8

Money market mutual funds
17 Retail                                 790.5     796.5
18 Institution-only                       538.4     544.6

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
19 Repurchase agreements(12)              287.0     290.9
20 Eurodollars(12)                        156.5     156.9

Debt components
21 Federal debt                          3707.2      n.a.
22 Nonfederal debt                     1,2644.6      n.a.

                                       Not seasonally adjusted

Measures(2)
23 M1                                   1,113.7   1,096.5
24 M2                                   4,527.2   4,486.1
25 M3                                   6,131.7   6,101.6
26 Debt                                16,337.6      n.a.

M1 components
27 Currency(3)                            476.0     479.9
28 Travelers checks(4)                      7.9       7.9
29 Demand deposits(5)                     374.0     363.3
30 Other checkable deposits(6)            255.8     245.5

Nontransaction components
31 In M27                               3,413.6   3,389.5
32 In M3 only(8)                        1,604.5   1,615.5

Commercial banks
33 Savings deposits, including MMDAs    1,241.3   1,234.8
34 Small time deposits(9)                 614.5     611.9
35 Large time deposits(10, 11)            534.7     535.2

Thrift institutions
36 Savings deposits, including MMDAs      437.0     441.7
37 Small time deposits(9)                 319.7     317.1
38 Large time deposits(10)                 89.2       8.9

Money market mutual funds
39 Retail                                 801.1     784.0
40 Institution-only                       536.7     538.3

Repurchase agreements and
Eurodollars
41 Repurchase agreements(12)              289.7     297.2
42 Eurodollars(12)                        154.3     155.8

Debt components
43 Federal debt                         3,717.1      n.a.
44 Nonfederal debt                     12,620.5      n.a.


(1.) Latest monthly and weekly figures are available from the Board's H.6 (508) weekly statistical release. Historical data starting in 1959 are available from the Money and Reserves Projections Section, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Washington, DC 20551.

(2.) Composition of the money stock measures and debt is as follows:

M1: (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions, (2) travelers checks of nonbank issuers, (3) demand deposits at all commercial banks other than those owed to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions, less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float, and (4) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) and automatic transfer service (ATS) accounts at depository institutions, credit union share draft accounts, and demand deposits at thrift institutions. Seasonally adjusted M1 is computed by summing currency, travelers checks, demand deposits, and OCDs. each seasonally adjusted separately.

M2: M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including MMDAs), (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits--including retail RPs--in amounts of less than $1000,000), and (3) balances in retail money market mutual funds. Excludes individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and Keogh balances at depository institutions and money market funds. Seasonally adjusted M2 is calculated by summing savings deposits, small-denomination time deposits, and retail money fund balances, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M1.

M3: M2 plus (1) large-denomination time deposits (in amounts of $100,000 or more) issued by all depository institutions, (2) balances in institutional money funds, (3) RP liabilities (overnight and term) issued by all depository institutions, and (4) Eurodollars (overnight and term) held by U.S. residents at foreign branches of U.S. banks worldwide and at all banking offices in the United Kingdom and Canada. Excludes amounts held by depository institutions. Seasonally adjusted M3 is calculated by summing large time deposits, institutional money fund balances, RP liabilities, and Eurodollars, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M2.

Debt: The debt aggregate is the outstanding credit market debt of the domestic nonfinancial sectors--the federal sector (U.S. government, not including government-sponsored enterprises or federally mortgage pools) and the nonfederal sectors (state and local governments, households and nonprofit organizations, nonfinancial corporate and nonfarm noncorporate businesses, and farms). Nonfederal debt consists of mortgages, tax-exempt and corporate bonds, consumer credit, bank loans, commercial paper, and other loans. The data, which are derived from the Federal Reserve Board's flow of funds accounts, are break-adjusted (that is, discontinuities in the data have been smoothed into the series) and month-averaged (that is, the data have been derived by averaging adjacent month-end levels).

(3.) Currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and vaults of depository institutions.

(4.) Outstanding amount of U.S. dollar-denominated travelers checks of nonback issuers. Travelers checks issued by depository institutions are included in demand deposits.

(5.) Demand deposits at commercial banks and foreign-related institutions other than those owed to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and institution, less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float.

(6.) Consists of NOW and ATS account balances at all depository institutions, credit union share draft account balances, and demand deposits at thrift institutions.

(7.) Sum of (1) savings deposits (including MMDAs), (2) small time deposits, and (3) money fund balances.

(8.) Sum of (1) large time deposits, (2) institutional money fund balances, RP liabilities (overnight and term) issued by depository institutions, and (4) Eurodollars (overnight and term) of U.S. addressees.

(9.) Small time deposits--including retail RPs--are those issued in amounts of less than $100,000. All IRAs and Keogh accounts at commercial banks and thrift institutions are subtracted from small time deposits.

(10.) Large time deposits are those issued in amounts of $100,000 or more, excluding those booked at international banking facilities.

(11.) Large time deposits at commercial banks less those held by money market funds, depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions.

(12.) Includes both overnight and term.

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1.32 COMMERCIAL PAPER AND BANKERS DOLLAR ACCEPTANCES OUTSTANDING

A. Commercial Paper

Millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted, end of period
                          Year ending December
          Item
                          1994      1995      1996

1 All issuers          595,382   674,904   775,371
  Financial
   companies(1)
2   Dealer-placed      223,038   275,815   361,147
     paper, total(2)
3   Directly placed    207,701   210,829   229,662
     paper, total(3)
4   Nonfinancial       164,643   188,260   184,563
     companies(4)

                       Year ending December            1998
          Item
                          1997        1998         Nov.        Dec.

1 All issuers          966,699   1,163,303    1,159,027   1,163,303
  Financial
   companies(1)
2   Dealer-placed      513,307     614,142      621,246     614,142
     paper, total(2)
3   Directly placed    252,536     322,030      304,545     322,030
     paper, total(3)
4   Nonfinancial       200,857     227,132      233,236     227,132
     companies(4)
                                             1999
          Item
                            Jan.        Feb.        Mar.        Apr.

1 All issuers          1,178,168   1,178,303   1,204,627   1,219,789
  Financial
   companies(1)
2   Dealer-placed        629,569     615,053     684,616     697,030
     paper, total(2)
3   Directly placed      314,601     320,468     276,424     276,721
     paper, total(3)
4   Nonfinancial         233,998     242,782     243,587     246,038
     companies(4)


(1.) Institutions engaged primarily in commercial, savings, and mortgage banking; sales, personal, and mortgage financing; factoring, finance leasing, and other business lending; insurance underwriting; and other investment activities.

(2.) Includes all financial-company paper sold by dealers in the open market.

(3.) As reported by financial companies that place their paper directly with investors.

(4.) Includes public utilities and finns engaged primarily in such activities as communications, construction, manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, and services.

B. Bankers Dollar Acceptances(1)

Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted, year ending September(2)
                     Item                          1995     1996

1 Total amount of reporting banks' acceptances   29,242   25,832
   in existence
2 Amount of other banks' eligible acceptances     1,249      709
   held by reporting banks
3 Amount of own eligible acceptances held by     10,516    7,770
   reporting banks (included in item 1)
4 Amount of eligible acceptances representing
   goods stored in, or shipped between,
   foreign countries
   (included in item 1)                          11,373    9,361

                     Item                          1997     1998

1 Total amount of reporting banks' acceptances   25,774   14,363
   in existence
2 Amount of other banks' eligible acceptances       736      523
   held by reporting banks
3 Amount of own eligible acceptances held by      6,862    4,884
   reporting banks (included in item 1)
4 Amount of eligible acceptances representing
   goods stored in, or shipped between,
   foreign countries
   (included in item 1)                          10,467    5,413


(1.) Includes eligible, dollar-denominated bankers acceptances legally payable in the United States. Eligible acceptances are those that are eligible for discount by Federal Reserve Banks; that is, those acceptances that meet the criteria of Paragraph 7 of Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. [sections] 372).

(2.) Data on bankers dollar acceptances are gathered from approximately 65 institutions; includes U.S. chartered commercial banks (domestic and foreign offices), U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks, and Edge and agreement corporations. The reporting group is revised every year.
1.33 PRIME RATE CHARGED BY BANKS Short-Term Business Loans(1)

Percent per year

Date of change   Rate     Period      Average
                                       rate

1996--Jan. 1     8.50   1996           8.27
      Feb. 1     8.25   1997           8.44
                        1998           8.35
1997--Mar. 26    8.50
                        1996--Jan.     8.50
1998--Sept. 30   8.25         Feb.     8.25
      Oct. 16    8.00         Mar.     8.25
      Nov. 18    7.75         Apr.     8.25
                              May      8.25
                              June     8.25
                              July     8.25
                              Aug.     8.25
                              Sept.    8.25
                              Oct.     8.25
                              Nov.     8.25
                              Dec.     8.25

Date of change   Rate     Period      Average
                                       rate

1996--Jan. 1     8.50   1997--Jan.     8.25
      Feb. 1     8.25         Feb.     8.25
                              Mar.     8.30
1997--Mar. 26    8.50         Apr.     8.50
                              May      8.50
1998--Sept. 30   8.25         June     8.50
      Oct. 16    8.00         July     8.50
      Nov. 18    7.75         Aug.     8.50
                              Sept.    8.50
                              Oct.     8.50
                              Nov.     8.50
                              Dec.     8.50

Date of change   Rate     Period      Average
                                       rate

1996--Jan. 1     8.50   1998--Jan.     8.50
      Feb. 1     8.25         Feb.     8.50
                              Mar.     8.50
1997--Mar. 26    8.50         Apr.     8.50
                              May      8.50
1998--Sept. 30   8.25         June     8.50
      Oct. 16    8.00         July     8.50
      Nov. 18    7.75         Aug.     8.50
                              Sept.    8.49
                              Oct.     8.12
                              Nov.     7.89
                              Dec.     7.75

                        1999--Jan.     7.75
                              Feb.     7.75
                              Mar.     7.75
                              Apr.     7.75
                              May      7.75
                              June     7.75


(1.) The prime rate is one of several base rates that banks use to price short-term business loans. The table shows the date on which a new rate came to be the predominant one quoted by a majority of the twenty-five largest banks by asset size, based on the most recent Call Report. Data in this table also appear in the Board's H.15 (519) weekly and G.13 (415) monthly statistical releases. For ordering address, see inside front cover.

1.35 INTEREST RATES Money and Capital Markets

Percent per year; figures are averages of business day data unless otherwise noted
Item                                     1996   1997   1998

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS

1 Federal funds(1,2,3)                   5.30   5.46   5.35
Discount window borrowing(2,4)           5.02   5.00   4.92

Commercial paper(3,5,6)
Nonfinancial
3 1-month                                n.a.   5.57   5.40
4 2-month                                n.a.   5.57   5.38
5 3-month                                n.a.   5.56   5.34

Financial
6 l-month                                n.a.   5.59   5.42
2-month                                  n.a.   5.59   5.40
8 3-month                                n.a.   5.60   5.37

Commercial paper (historical)(3,5,7)
9 1-month                                5.43   5.54   n.a.
10 3-month                               5.41   5.58   n.a.
11 6-month                               5.42   5.62   n.a.

Finance paper, directly placed
(historical)(3,5,8)
12 l-month                               5.31   5.44   n.a.
13 3-month                               5.29   5.48   n.a.
14 6-month                               5.21   5.48   n.a.

Bankers acceptances(3,5,9)
15 3-month                               5.31   5.54   5.39
16 6-month                               5.31   5.57   5.30

Certificates of deposit, secondary
market(3,10)
17 1-month                               5.35   5.54   5.49
18 3-month                               5.39   5.62   5.47
19 6-month                               5.47   5.73   5.44
20 Eurodollar deposits, 3-month(3,11)    5.38   5.61   5.45

U.S. Treasury bills
Secondary market(3,5)
21 3-month                               5.01   5.06   4.78
22 6-month                               5.08   5.18   4.83
23 1-year                                5.22   5.32   4.80

Auction high(3,5,12)
24 3-month                               5.02   5.07   4.81
25 6-month                               5.09   5.18   4.85
26 1-year                                5.23   5.36   4.85

U.S. TREASURY NOTES AND BONDS

Constant maturities(13)
27 1-year                                5.52   5.63   5.05
28 2-year                                5.84   5.99   5.13
29 3-year                                5.99   6.10   5.14
30 5-year                                6.18   6.22   5.15
31 7-year                                6.34   6.33   5.28
32 10-year                               6.44   6.35   5.26
33 20-year                               6.83   6.69   5.72
34 30-year                               6.71   6.61   5.58

Composite
35 More than 10 years (long-term)        6.80   6.67   5.69

STATE AND LOCAL NOTES AND BONDS

Moody's series(14)
36 Aaa                                   5.52   5.32   4.93
37 Baa                                   5.79   5.50   5.14
38 Bond Buyer series(15)                 5.76   5.52   5.09

CORPORATE BONDS

39 Seasoned issues, all industries(16)   7.66   7.54   6.87

Rating group
40 Aaa                                   7.37   7.27   6.53
41 Aa                                    7.55   7.48   6.80
42 A                                     7.69   7.54   6.93
43 Baa                                   8.05   7.87   7.22

MEMO

Dividend-price ratio(17)
44 Common stocks                         2.19   1.77   1.49

Item                                             1999

                                         Feb.   Mar.   Apr.    May

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS

1 Federal funds(1,2,3)                   4.76   4.81   4.74   4.74
Discount window borrowing(2,4)           4.50   4.50   4.50   4.50

Commercial paper(3,5,6)
Nonfinancial
3 1-month                                4.80   4.82   4.79   4.79
4 2-month                                4.80   4.82   4.78   4.80
5 3-month                                4.79   4.81   4.79   4.81

Financial
6 l-month                                4.82   4.84   4.80   4.80
2-month                                  4.82   4.83   4.80   4.82
8 3-month                                4.82   4.84   4.80   4.83

Commercial paper (historical)(3,5,7)
9 1-month                                n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.
10 3-month                               n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.
11 6-month                               n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.

Finance paper, directly placed
(historical)(3,5,8)
12 l-month                               n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.
13 3-month                               n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.
14 6-month                               n.a.   n.a.   n.a.   n.a.

Bankers acceptances(3,5,9)
15 3-month                               4.79   4.82   4.80   4.86
16 6-month                               4.74   4.82   4.80   4.89

Certificates of deposit, secondary
market(3,10)
17 1-month                               4.86   4.88   4.84   4.84
18 3-month                               4.90   4.91   4.88   4.92
19 6-month                               4.95   4.98   4.94   5.03
20 Eurodollar deposits, 3-month(3,11)    4.86   4.88   4.87   4.90

U.S. Treasury bills
Secondary market(3,5)
21 3-month                               4.44   4.44   4.29   4.50
22 6-month                               4.44   4.47   4.37   4.56
23 1-year                                4.48   4.53   4.45   4.60

Auction high(3,5,12)
24 3-month                               4.45   4.48   4.28   4.51
25 6-month                               4.43   4.52   4.36   4.55
26 1-year                                4.37   4.67   4.50   4.63

U.S. TREASURY NOTES AND BONDS

Constant maturities(13)
27 1-year                                4.70   4.78   4.69   4.85
28 2-year                                4.88   5.05   4.98   5.25
29 3-year                                4.90   5.11   5.03   5.33
30 5-year                                4.91   5.14   5.08   5.44
31 7-year                                5.10   5.36   5.28   5.64
32 10-year                               5.00   5.23   5.18   5.54
33 20-year                               5.66   5.87   5.82   6.08
34 30-year                               5.37   5.58   5.55   5.81

Composite
35 More than 10 years (long-term)        5.60   5.81   5.77   6.04

STATE AND LOCAL NOTES AND BONDS

Moody's series(14)
36 Aaa                                   4.80   4.96   4.89   n.a.
37 Baa                                   5.21   5.32   5.27   n.a.
38 Bond Buyer series(15)                 5.03   5.10   5.08   5.18

CORPORATE BONDS

39 Seasoned issues, all industries(16)   6.89   7.07   7.05   7.32

Rating group
40 Aaa                                   6.40   6.62   6.64   6.93
41 Aa                                    6.79   6.98   6.96   7.23
42 A                                     6.97   7.14   7.13   7.40
43 Baa                                   7.39   7.53   7.48   7.72

MEMO

Dividend-price ratio(17)
44 Common stocks                         1.32   1.30   1.24   1.24

Item                                        1999, week ending

                                         Apr. 30   May 7   May 14

MONEY MARKET INSTRUMENTS

1 Federal funds(1,2,3)                      4.79    4.90     4.70
Discount window borrowing(2,4)              4.50    4.50     4.50

Commercial paper(3,5,6)
Nonfinancial
3 1-month                                   4.77    4.79     4.78
4 2-month                                   4.77    4.78     4.78
5 3-month                                   4.77    4.79     4.79

Financial
6 l-month                                   4.79    4.80     4.79
2-month                                     4.78    4.80     4.80
8 3-month                                   4.79    4.80     4.81

Commercial paper (historical)(3,5,7)
9 1-month                                   n.a.    n.a.     n.a.
10 3-month                                  n.a.    n.a.     n.a.
11 6-month                                  n.a.    n.a.     n.a.


Finance paper, directly placed
(historical)(3,5,8)
12 l-month                                  n.a.    n.a.     n.a.
13 3-month                                  n.a.    n.a.     n.a.
14 6-month                                  n.a.    n.a.     n.a.

Bankers acceptances(3,5,9)
15 3-month                                  4.80    4.82     4.84
16 6-month                                  4.80    4.84     4.86

Certificates of deposit, secondary
market(3,10)
17 1-month                                  4.83    4.83     4.83
18 3-month                                  4.87    4.88     4.89
19 6-month                                  4.94    4.96     4.97
20 Eurodollar deposits, 3-month(3,11)       4.87    4.87     4.87

U.S. Treasury bills
Secondary market(3,5)
21 3-month                                  4.39    4.49     4.48
22 6-month                                  4.43    4.50     4.52
23 1-year                                   4.49    4.54     4.55

Auction high(3,5,12)
24 3-month                                  4.34    4.48     4.48
25 6-month                                  4.41    4.50     4.51
26 1-year                                   4.49    n.a.     n.a.

U.S. TREASURY NOTES AND BONDS

Constant maturities(13)
27 1-year                                   4.73    4.78     4.79
28 2-year                                   5.03    5.13     5.19
29 3-year                                   5.10    5.21     5.27
30 5-year                                   5.15    5.32     5.39
31 7-year