Full text of G.13 Selected Interest Rates : November 1, 1938

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS
OF THE
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
R&S MR 555
November 1, 1938
OPEN-MARKET MONEY RATES IN NEW YORK CITY
(Percent per annum)
Week ending Saturday
Oct. 29
1938

Oct, 22
1938

Oct. 1
1938

Oct. 30
1937

Prevailing rate on:
Comn.eraial paper (prime, 4 to 6 months) • 5/8-3/4
Bankers' acceptances (prime, 90 days)...
7/16
Time loans (Stock Exchange, 90 days)....
1 1/4

5/8-3/4
7/lG
1 1/4

5/8-3/4
7/16
1 1/4

1
7/16
1 1/4

1,00
1.00

1.00
1.00

1.00
1.00

1.00
1.00

.04
.03
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2.28

.04
.03
.67
2.28

.10
.03
.85
2.41

3.14
5,31

3.14
5.33

3.25
5.74

Rate on Stock-exchange call loans: l/

Average yield on United States obligations:
Treasury bills
' ' .17
.23
1.41
2.65

Average yield on corporate bonds: 3/
3.27
5.62

l/ Averages of daily figures.
Z j Rates shown for 1938 are on 91-day bills; that for 1937 is on tax-date bills
~~
maturing about March IS, 1938,
3/ Averages of daily figures, week ending Friday.




BOARD OF GOVERNORS
OF THE
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
R&S MR 556
November 1, 1938
MONEY RATES
(Percent per annum)
1938
Oct,
OPEN-MARKET RATES IN M

Sept.

1937
Aug.

Oct.

3/4
7/16
1 1/4

1
7/16
1 1/4

YORK CITY

Prevailing rate on:
Commercial paper (prime, 4 to 6 months)..
Bankers* acceptances (prime, 90 days)....
Time loans (Stock Exchange, 90 days).....

5/8-3/4
7/16
1 1/4

Rate on Stock-exchange call loans: l/
New. ........................
Renewal
......,. ..... . ..

1.00

5/8-3/4
7/16
1 1/4

1.00

1.00
1.00

1.00

.05

.08
.10

.6
0

Average yield on United States obligations:
Treasury bills
91 days l/ (dealers1 quotation)
New issue j3/.........................
Treasury notes, 3-5 years 1^.
Treasury bonds l/.

2.29

Average yield on corporate bonds: i f
Aaa
Baa

.02
.68

1.00

1.00

1.00

.20

.92
2.40

.05
.71
2.32

.34
1.42
2.65

3.15
5.36

3.21
5.65

3.18
5.49

3.27
5.52

2.29
3.37
4.06

2.25
3,30
4.07

2,16
3,26
4.12

2.38
3.37
4.16

RATES CHARGED CUSTOMERS BY BANKS z/
Mew York C
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t
y
,
,
Eight othor northern and eastern cities,.,.
Twenty-seven southern and western cities...

l/ Averages of daily figures.
3 / Rates shown for 1938 are on 91-day bills; that for October 1937 is an average
of 3 issues of 273-day bills and 2 issues of tax-date bills maturing about
March 16, 1938.
3/ Weighted averages of prevailing rates*