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BOARD CF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
G- .13

.

January 6, 1958 .

CONSUMER INSTALMENT CREDIT AT COMMERCIAL BANKS *
NOVEMBER 1957
Consumer instalment credit held "by commercial "banks
was down slightly in November from the preceding month,.and at
the end of the month amounted to $12,71? million.- The monthly
decrease reflected declines in durable goods paper offset in
part "by increases in repair and modernization and personal loans.
Total "balances were at out 9 per cent above the year-ago level.
Total extensions of credit during.November were also
down from a month earlier, as'a result of declines in each type
of credit, and were slightly below the year-ago volume.
Consumer Instalment Credit at Commercial Banks
(Estimates. In millions-of dollars)
Amounts outstanding
Change from:
Year
• Nov. 30, Month
ago
ago
1957

|
Type of credit

•

' Automobile paper
Purchased
Direct
Other consumer goods paper
Repair and modernization loans
Personal loans
]
Total
Federal Reserve District: .
Boston
New York
Philadelphia

j Volume extended
• Change from:
Year
Month .
ago
ago

.

4,067
-15:
2,333 - -• 1
2,448
-23
+ 6
1,537
+ 1.
2,332

.

Cleveland
-'"Richmond
Atlanta •

.964
849/
957

Chicago
• St. Louis
Minneapolis

1,882
440

+1,069

319 .•-58
- 12
210
- 41
239

94

288
1,150

- 17
• - 24

zM

. + 2.
+27
. -44
T

8

+17

-6-

;•

687
2,188
924

569.

4 427
. + . 251
- +
85
71
+. 235

-32

1 12,717
I

Nov.
1957

+ r
+

5

+
'

61

181

61
190

107

76

+ 2
0

+ ' 83
• 62
+ 83

79
86
93

-14
- 5
0

+

- 1
-

3

+
+

169

44
39

-174

48
41

- 9
- 20
. -

6

-10'
- 8
- s

- 38
-12
9

+ 1
+ 9
+ 4
- 3
+ 1
- 3
-21
- 2
0

+ 65
+ 3
- 8
- 6
584
Kansas Ci by
56
+ 1
4- 10
702
67
Dallas
98
- 3
+
+
4
- 14
- 8
2,031
San Francisco
179
77
back
led.
For
,hose
previously
publish
^Revised data. Not comparable with t
figures see Federal Reserve Bulletin for December 1957, PP- l400-l403 and
. pp. 1U20-1422.




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