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FEDERAL

RESERVE

G.18

• September 4, 1969
CONSUMER INSTALMENT CREDIT A T COMMERCIAL BANKS
JULY 1969

Consumer instalment credit outstanding at commercial banks increased
$332 million in July and at the month-end amounted to $39,248 million. Although all
major types of credit were larger than on June 30, automobile and other consumer
goods accounted for most of the total expansion.
The volume of instalment credit extended'in July was $217 million below
the June total. All sectors except other consumer goods credit were in smaller
volume than in either June this year or July 1968.
Consumer Instalment Credit at Commercial Banks
(Estimates, in millions of dollars)

Type of credit

,[
-

Volume extended
Change from:
Year
Month
ago

Amounts outstanding
Change from:
July 31,
Month Year
1969
ago
ago

Automobile paper, total

July
1969

20,315

+131

+1,708

1,589

-137

-134

12,814
7,501

+ 87
+ 44

+1,070
+
638

.989
600

- 99
- 38

-107
- 27

6,709
2,780
9,444

+152
+ 17
+ 32

+1,150
+
141
+1,146

693
153
888

+ 10
- 17
- 73

+138
9
- 15

39,248

+332

44,145

3,323

-217

- 20

Boston
New York
Philadelphia

1,755
4,989
2,430

+ 17
+ 38
+ 14

+
+
+

-141
449
257

161
427
1 8 5

9
- 32
- 20

1/
1
- 18

Cleveland
Richmond
Atlanta

3,016
3,466
3,848

+ 38 •+
+ 14 +
+ 24 +

314
429
384

252
295
330

- 12
- 25
-21

+
2
7
+ 15

Chicago
St. Louis
Minneapolis

5,736
1,883
1,312

+ 72
+ 12
+ 18

+
+
+

596
160
195

495
148
110

- 15
- 13
- 12

6
- 20
6

Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco

2,220
2,486
6,107

+ 24
+ 23
+ 38

+
+
+

286
255
679

190
226
504

- 6
+ 11
- 63

+
1
+ 23
- 3

Purchased
Direct
Other consumer goods
Home repair and modernization loans
Personal loans
TOTAL

.

Federal Reserve District:

1/ Less than 0.5
 million.


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