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FEDERAL
statistical

G.20

RESERVE

release
^(XXto p e ^ t l i U May 3, 1963

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pALSS FIN-INCE COMPANIES

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MARCH 1963

Consumer instalment credit at sales finance companies

for almost two-thirds of the rise.

Total extensions, at $983 million,, were ' 139

and modernization, were slightly higher than m

higher

March, 1962.

Business credit increased #120 million in March.

More

S595 million, or 12 fo, over March, 1962.
Outstanding Credit Held by Sales Finance Companies
(In millions of dollars)

Type of credit
Consumer instalment credit
Retail automotive (passenger cars)
Other consumer goods paper
Repair and modernization loans
Personal loans
Business credit 1/
Retail automotive (commercial vehicles)
Wholesale automotive
Wholesale other than automotive
Other business credit

March
1963
12,4-83

Increase or decrease during
March March Year ended
1962 March 31« 1963
1963
+1,200
78
67
+ 27
-109
+ 1
+ 3

7,514
3,330
164
1,475

+ 37

5,623

+120

±3it

664
1,858
393
2,708

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

+
+
+
+

-110

+

1
7

11
70
25
14

14
40
21
19

595
+
+

124
197

+

214

1/ Excludes some credit extended to business, such as that extended by
factoring subsidiaries.

r



742
196
1
261

+

60

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-

2

-

Credit Extended, by Sales Finance Companies
(in millions of dollars)

Type of credit

Retail -automotive (passenger car)
New
• Used
Other consumer goods paper
Repair and modernization loans
Personal loans
Business credit l/
Retail automotive (commercial vehicles).
New
Used
' ITholes-ale automobile paper - ,
New (passenger and commercial)
Used (passenger and commercial)
Wholesale other than automotive
Other business credit 1/
extended by factoring subsidiaries.




Change from:
Year
Month
ago
ago

hO
00
o>

Consumer instalment credit

March
1963

+139

+ 46

601

+ 78

+ 19

365
236

+ 54
+ 24

+ 16
+ 3

209
7
166

+ 50
'+ 1
+ 10

+ 2
- 2
+ 27

1,792

+ 94

+148

. • G?
"

+

5

+

6

+
+

4"
1

+
-

7
1

49
16
1,280
1,214
66

+ 61
+ 55
+ 6

+119
+138
- 19

119
328

+ 14
+ 14

+ 6
+ 17

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G. 20

Number of Motor Vehicles Financed by Sales Finance Companies
(la thousands)

March

Type of vehicle

Total financed at retail
New passenger
Used passenger
New commercial
Used commercial

1963
;

i

9

-11

21
12
j --0
2
1
i - l

3
-12
- 1
- 1

I

i

517

Total financed at wholesale
New (passenger and commercial)
Used (passenger and commercial)

--2
;4

354
135
196
14

Change from:
Month
| Year
!
ago
ago
i
|

!

i

: 24

13

462

21
3

: 37
.»

55

Credit Sales of New Passenger Cars as a Per Cent
of Total Number Sold at Retail It
Credit sales
1963 - March
February
1962 - March

Per Cent
r

^

r - revised.
1/ Based on new ear instalment contracts acquired by Dames,
sales finance companies, other financial institutions, and automobile
dealers. Data for prior months may be obtained by writing to the
Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System, Washington 25, D. C.