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FEDERAL

•

RESERVE

• statistical
•
For immediate release
March 11, 1975

J.3
Finance Rates and Other Terms on Selected Categories of
Consumer Instalment Credit Extended by Finance Companies
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(Not seasonally adjusted)

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Average maturity
(months)

Customer finance rate
(per cent per annum)

Mobile
homes

"Other
consumer
goods" 1/

Personal
loans

Mobile
homes

"Other
consumer
goods" J)

Personal
loans

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Mobile
homes

"Other
consumer
goods" J/

Personal
loans

1974
January

13.24

18.90

20.68

118.6

20.9

33.5

6,892

412

1,092

March

13.15

18.69

20.57

119.5

21.7

34.4

6,978

449

1,143

May

13.07

18.90

20.57

120.5

21.7

35.5

7,124

439

1,202

July

13.21

19.24

20.78

122.7

21.2

35.4

7,500

431

1,169

September

13.42

19.30

20.93

123.6

20.6

34.9

7,658

437

rl,l71

November

13.60

19.49

r21.16

122.5

20.4

r35.1

7,599

436

rl,l94

13.60

19.58

21.24

120.2

20.3

35.0

7,369

433

1,153

1975
January

11 Excludes automobiles and recreat1onal veh1cles.
r-- Revised.
NOTE: The data shown on this release are compiled from a bimonthly survey conducted by the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System. For mobile homes and "other consumer goods," the data cover contracts purchased
by finance companies, primarily from retail outlets; for personal loans, they cover secured and unsecured loans
made directly by finance companies for household, family or other personal expenditures. Rates are reported on
anfor Annual
Digitized
FRASER Percentage Rate basis as specified in the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation Z (Truth-in-Lending).