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BOARD Or GOVERNORS
03' THE

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
R&S MR 539
August 2, 1938

OPEN-MARKET MONEY RATES J.N HEW YORK CITY
(Percent per annum)
Week ending Saturday
July 30
1938

July 23
1938

July 2
1938

July 31
1937

3/4
7/16
1 1/4

3/4
7/16
1 1/4

2/4
7/l6
1 1/4

1
7/16
1 1/4

1.00
1.00

1.00

•...

Loo

1.00
1.00

1.00
1.00

Average yield on United States obligations:
Treasury bills
91 days l/ (dealers' quotation)........
New issue Z/...........................
Treasury notes, 3-5 years l/ t
Treasury bonds
.
.

.07
.06
.70
2.34

.07
.06
.72
2.35

.04
,02
,.68
2,36

.24
.47
1.36
2.55

Average yield on corporate bonds: 3/
Aaa............................... M ....
B
a
a
,
.
.

3,20
5.47

3.22
5.57

3,27
5.98

3.23
4.92

Prevailing rate on:
Commercial paper (prime, 4 to 6 months),,
Bankers 1 acceptances (prime, DO days)....
Time loans (Stock Exchange, 90 days).....
Rate on Stoclc-exchangc call loans: l/
New.
.
Renewal..

l/ Averages of daily figures,
ly Rates shown for 1938 arc on 91*»day bills; that for 1937 is on 273-day bills,
Zf Averages of daily figures, week ending Friday, Sorios revised beginning
January 1937,