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FEDERAL - RESERVE

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statistical

release
/3s:
February 5, 1964

CONSUMER INSTALMENT/CREDIT AT COMMERCIAL BANKS

DECEMBER 1963
Consumer instalment credit held by commercial banks at the end of
December is estimated at $21,610 million, $2,605 million above the total a
year ago and $124 million more than at the end of November. All major
types of credit outstanding at year-end were substantially higher than a
year earlier
except for repair and modernization loans, all balances
v;ere larger than at the end of November.
Extensions of instalment credit by commercial banks totaled $1,839
million, 11 per cent above a year earlier and 7 per cent higher than in
November.
Consumer Instalment Credit at Commercial Banks
(Estimates, in millions of dollars)
Amounts outstanding
I Change flora:
Month
Year
ago
ago

Type of credit

Dec. 31.
1963 .

Automooile paper, total
Purchased "
: Direct

7,246
4,co:

Other consumer goods paper
Repair and, modernization loans
Personal loans
'

3,123
2,361 J
4,077.

Total

Boston
•• Philadelphia
Cleveland
• Richmond
* Atlanta

I/. Lees than

5 million.

-

2

+102

-

1
1

79
22

39

-n

-

52
9
32

20
3.
60

50

299
100
592

319
136
574

124

-r2,605

1,389

-1-123

-:-185

91

9
51
11

1,066
3,393 .
1,391

1
15

1,493
1,683
1,681

2
7
13 -

3,2jJ
1,023
636

Chicago
St.- Louis
• ' Minneapolis




4-1,062
V 552

1
j
j

Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

23
19

12

"

21,613 —

Federal Reserve District:

890

: 548
342

47 ' | -:-l, 614 '

11,249

,

Vol ume e::tended
1 Change from:
Year
Month
1963
ago

;
j

1,077
1,265
:,692-

+

y

3'
2

10
15
41

4-

87
396
126

114

1.1
36
: 12

200 |
213 |
158

113
145
178

3
9
-i- 20

427
142
60

264
82
53

-:
-

133 |
191 i
472

103
112
323

9
:
+ 16

2)6

•

12
15
24
:- 10

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