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CONSUMER INSTALMENT CREDIT A T COMMERCIAL BANKS
'FEBRUARY 1970
Consumer instalment credit outstanding at.commercial banks decreased
S154 million in February to $39,990 at the month end.
The decline was mainly in
automobile credit although small reductions occurred in most other major types of
indebtedness . All shared in the $2,934 increase over the year-period.
The volume of automobile loans was larger- than -in. January but continued
below year-ago levels. Loans for other consumer goods, which u s u a l l y contract at this
time of the year, were only slightly smaller than in January.. The growth' in credxt
card activity, held this sector well above the February 1969 volume and offset year-toyear declines in most other types of credit.
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Consumer Instalment Credit, at Commercial. Banks
(Estimates, in millions of dollars)

1

Type of credit

.Feb . 28,
•
• 970
i

"Itotpadbile pape r, total
Purchased
'Direct
Other consumer goods: Credit cards
Other
Home repair and modernization loans
Personal loans: Check-credit
Other

20,118
1
;
1

12 ,585
.7 ,533
,384
5 ,090
,691
1 ,006
8 ,701

outs Landing
Volume, extended
Change from:
Change trom* <
Feb .
Year
Month
Y ear !
1970
ago
ago j
a%o.
848 j 1,264

+ 41

- 81

43z!
416 i

789
475

+ 25
+ 16

- 38
I - 43

'-1-1,0631 • 351
' -.20 ,+
265
2431
' ' 23
15 i
84
237,
122
649
i4" 5 2 8 /

+
4
- 27
+
6
- 16
- 24

+161
- 2.7
- 12
+
9.
- 43

- 16

+

7

9
- 13
+
6
+
3
- 5
- 26

+
+
+
+
+

19
45
10
5
24
11

345 | - 31
125 i 8
+
3
80
165
- 13
165
- 14
+ 91
458

+
+
-

5 6 "
5
12
1
14
11

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Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta

- 5 , 2 1 1 :. - 8
- 2,454 j
: -18
i
3 .140 : - ' 6
! ' 3.,600.: - 5
j
3.,986 j + 14

Chicago
St. Louis Minneapolis
Kansas- City
Dallas
San'Francisco

,677 ^
,929 :
- 1.,323 :
• 2;,199 j
2 ,583
j
i
=
6 ,115
i
i
=




! +

• +2,934 ! 2,735

Federal- Reserve Dis trict:

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+

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; - 36'

,990

Total

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-

- 62

- 14
+
6
- 38

109:
513 j
136 j
i +
! + 331 j
i + 358|
280:
r
i +
; + .138 j
j + 109:
1 + 138,
i + 231 j
,+ 331 j

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129
377
152
195
261
283 |

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