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Federal R eserve Bank OF DALLAS W IL L IA M H. W ALLACE DALLAS, TEXAS 75222 f i r s t v ic e p r e s id e n t AND CH IEF O PER ATING O FFIC E R April 12, 1989 Circular 89-24 TO: The Chief Executive Officer of all financial institutions in the Eleventh Federal Reserve District SUBJECT Electronic availability of Federal Reserve Board of Governors' statistical releases DETAILS The Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Commerce Department have announced the availability of six of the Board's statistical releases through the Commerce Department's economic bulletin board. The computerized bulletin board initially will provide four weekly and two monthly Board releases. The weekly releases now available electronically are: H3 -- Aggregate Reserves, H6 — Money Supply, H8 — Bank Credit, and H15 -- Selected Interest Rates. The monthly releases available are: G12.3 — Industrial Production and G3 -- Capacity Utilization. Later in 1989, two other releases will be available electronically — the monthly G19 -- Consumer Installment Credit and the weekly H4.1 -- Factors Affecting Reserve Balances. The annual subscription fee to access the Commerce Department's bulletin board is $25. This fee includes two hours of free access time with additional usage at 10 cents per minute. The bulletin board also carries major economic releases from the Commerce and Labor departments. Historical data for the six releases now available may be ordered in machine-readable form through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), an agency of the Commerce Department. For a free catalog of data files produced by the Board of Governors, write to: National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161 or telephone (202) 487-4808 and request PR790. MORE INFORMATION For additional information about these releases, please contact either the Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3240 or the Commerce Department at (202) 377-1986. Sincerely yours, For additional copies of any circular please contact the Public A ffairs D ep artm en t at (214) 6 51 -6 2 89 . Banks and others are encouraged to use the follow ing incoming W A TS numbers in contacting this Bank (800) 4 4 2 -7 1 4 0 (in trastate) and (800) 5 2 7 -9 2 0 0 (interstate). This publication was digitized and made available by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Historical Library (FedHistory@dal.frb.org)