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BULLETIN

SEPTEMBER 2019

FEATURES
Profile of the Economy
Financial Operations
International Statistics
Special Reports
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Department of the Treasury

Bureau of the Fiscal Service

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Table of Contents
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
PROFILE OF THE ECONOMY
Analysis—Summary of Economic Indicators........................................................................................................................ 3
FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS
Introduction—Federal Fiscal Operations ............................................................................................................................... 8
Analysis—Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government and Third-Quarter Receipts by Source .......................... 9
FFO-A—Chart: Monthly Receipts and Outlays ................................................................................................................. 11
FFO-B—Chart: Budget Receipts by Source ........................................................................................................................ 11
FFO-1—Summary of Fiscal Operations .............................................................................................................................. 12
FFO-2—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source ................................................................................................... 13
FFO-3—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency ................................................................................................... 15
FFO-4—Summary of U.S. Government Receipts by Source and Outlays by Agency ........................................................ 17
FEDERAL DEBT
Introduction—Federal Debt ................................................................................................................................................. 18
FD-1—Summary of Federal Debt ....................................................................................................................................... 19
FD-2—Debt Held by the Public .......................................................................................................................................... 20
FD-3—Government Account Series .................................................................................................................................... 21
FD-4—Interest-Bearing Securities Issued by Government Agencies .................................................................................. 22
FD-5—Maturity Distribution and Average Length of Marketable Interest-Bearing Public Debt Held by
Private Investors .................................................................................................................................................... 23
FD-6—Debt Subject to Statutory Limit ............................................................................................................................... 24
FD-7—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued by Government Corporations and Other Agencies ................................... 25
BUREAU OF THE FISCAL SERVICE OPERATIONS
Introduction—Bureau of the Fiscal Service Operations ...................................................................................................... 27
TREASURY FINANCING ................................................................................................................................................. 27
PDO-1—Offerings of Regular Weekly Treasury Bills ........................................................................................................ 36
PDO-2—Offerings of Marketable Securities Other than Regular Weekly Treasury Bills .................................................. 37
OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL SECURITIES
Introduction—Ownership of Federal Securities .................................................................................................................. 38
OFS-1—Distribution of Federal Securities by Class of Investors and Type of Issues ........................................................ 39
OFS-2—Estimated Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities ................................................................................................ 40
U.S. CURRENCY AND COIN OUTSTANDING AND IN CIRCULATION
Introduction—U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in Circulation ............................................................................. 41
USCC-1—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation; Currency, Coins ............................................................................... 41
USCC-2—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation; by Denomination, Per Capita Comparative Totals .......................... 42

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS
FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS
Introduction—Foreign Currency Positions .......................................................................................................................... 45

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Table of Contents
SECTION I—Canadian Dollar Positions
FCP-I-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ..................................................................................................... 46
FCP-I-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................... 47
FCP-I-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants .................................................................................................. 47
SECTION II—Japanese Yen Positions
FCP-II-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................... 48
FCP-II-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 49
FCP-II-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................. 49
SECTION III—Swiss Franc Positions
FCP-III-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 50
FCP-III-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................. 51
FCP-III-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................ 51
SECTION IV—Sterling Positions
FCP-IV-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 52
FCP-IV-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants................................................................................................. 53
FCP-IV-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants................................................................................................ 53
SECTION V—U.S. Dollar Positions
FCP-V-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants ................................................................................................... 54
FCP-V-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 55
FCP-V-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants ................................................................................................. 55
SECTION VI—Euro Positions
FCP-VI-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants .................................................................................................. 56
FCP-VI-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants................................................................................................. 57
FCP-VI-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants................................................................................................ 57
EXCHANGE STABILIZATION FUND
Introduction—Exchange Stabilization Fund ........................................................................................................................ 58
ESF-1—Balance Sheet ........................................................................................................................................................ 58
ESF-2—Income and Expense .............................................................................................................................................. 59

SPECIAL REPORTS
TRUST FUNDS
Introduction—Highway Trust Fund .................................................................................................................................... 63
TF-6A—Highway Trust Fund; Highway Account, Mass Transit Account ......................................................................... 63

GLOSSARY ........................................................................................................................................................................ 64
ORDER FORM FOR TREASURY PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................... Inside back cover
NOTES: Definitions for words shown in italics can be found in the glossary; Detail may not add to totals due to
rounding; n.a. = Not available.

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Nonquarterly Tables and Reports
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are listed below along with the issues in which they appear.

March

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Federal Fiscal Operations
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FFO-6.—Customs and Border Protection Collection of Duties, Taxes and Fees
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Special Reports
Financial Report of the United States Government excerpt ............................................................................
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Trust Fund Reports:
Agriculture Disaster Relief Trust Fund ...................................................................................................
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Airport and Airway Trust Fund ..............................................................................................................
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Black Lung Disability Trust Fund...........................................................................................................
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Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund .............................................................................................................
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Hazardous Substance Superfund .............................................................................................................
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Highway Trust Fund ...............................................................................................................................
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Inland Waterways Trust Fund .................................................................................................................
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Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund ....................................................................................
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Nuclear Waste Fund ................................................................................................................................
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Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund..................................................................................................................
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Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund ...................................................................................
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Reforestation Trust Fund ........................................................................................................................
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Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund ......................................................................................
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United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund ....................................................................
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Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.....................................................
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Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund ..............................................................................................
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Wool Research, Development, and Promotion Trust Fund.....................................................................
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OPERATIONS
Profile of the Economy
Federal Fiscal Operations
Federal Debt
Fiscal Service Operations
Ownership of Federal Securities
U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding
and in Circulation

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Profile of the Economy
[Source: Office of Macroeconomic Analysis]
As of August 6, 2019

Introduction
The U.S. economic recovery became the longest
expansion on record in July and entered its 122nd month in
August. The advance estimate for real GDP in the second
quarter of 2019 showed economic growth at an annual rate
of 2.1 percent, after a 3.1 percent annual rate in the first
quarter and a 2.9 percent year-over-year advance in 2018.
As of early July, private forecasters predict real GDP growth
of 2.2 percent in 2019 on a Q4-over-Q4 basis and 1.7
percent in 2020. According to the President’s FY 2020
Budget, the Administration is predicting growth nearing
3 percent for the next few years, based on the investment
and productivity improvements incentivized by the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act (TCJA).
The second quarter saw a quadrupling of growth in
private consumption, a component which accounts for
roughly two-thirds of GDP, and a marked increase in
government spending at the federal as well as state and local
levels. Residential investment retrenched for the sixth
consecutive quarter, but the decline continued to taper
relative to last year, and there were gathering signs of
stabilization in the housing sector. After contributing, on
average, just under 1 percentage point to growth in each of
the previous six quarters, private fixed investment posed a
very modest drag on growth in the second quarter,
constrained by low oil prices and headwinds faced by
domestic aircraft manufacturers. Net exports and private
inventory investment posed the largest drags on growth in
the second quarter, reversing their recent trends of making
sizeable contributions. However, the most noteworthy
aspect of the economy’s performance in the second quarter
was the marked acceleration in private final domestic
demand. This measure, which provides a better signal of the
economy’s underlying growth, accelerated to its fastest pace
in a year. Since the end of 2016, this measure has grown at
an annual rate of 3.0 percent.
Labor markets are healthy, with the unemployment rate
standing at 3.7 percent as of July, just above the 49-year low
of 3.6 percent reached in April and May. Labor force
participation has trended upward, and the number of job
openings has remained above the number of job seekers for
16 consecutive months through June 2019. Job creation
averaged 223,000 per month during 2018, well above the
monthly averages seen in 2017 as well as 2016, and thus far
in 2019, has averaged a solid 165,000 per month. Nominal
as well as real wages have shown consistently higher growth
for the past year, while consumer and business sentiment
continue to hover near multi-year highs.

Economic Growth
According to the advance estimate, real GDP grew at an
annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019,
following the first quarter’s 3.1 percent pace. Slowing
global economic growth and the drawdown of previous
inventory investment subtracted from domestic GDP growth
in the second quarter. But private domestic final purchases –
the sum of personal consumption, business fixed investment,
and residential investment – accelerated noticeably in the
second quarter at an annual rate of 3.2 percent, following a
1.6 percent rise in the first quarter.
The growth rate of real personal consumption
expenditures quadrupled to 4.3 percent in the second quarter,
marking the fastest rate of consumer spending since 2017
Q4. This followed an upwardly-revised 1.1 percent advance
in consumption in the first quarter. Outlays on goods drove
consumption in the second quarter, rising 8.3 percent at an
annual rate and accounting for about four-fifths of overall
GDP growth. Spending on durable goods climbed 12.9
percent in the second quarter, while nondurable goods
expenditures were up 6.0 percent. Expenditures on services
rose 2.5 percent in the second quarter. On balance, real
personal consumption expenditures in Q2 made the largest
contribution to growth, adding 2.9 percentage points.
Business fixed investment declined 0.6 percent in Q2,
subtracting 0.1 percentage point from growth, but this
followed a solid, upwardly-revised 4.4 percent advance in
Q1. Equipment investment rose 0.7 percent in the second
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quarter was revised up to a slight 0.1 percent decline. The
slow equipment investment growth rate was significantly
impacted by the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX
airplane; the Council of Economic Advisors estimates that
the grounding alone subtracted 0.4 percentage point from Q2
GDP growth. Spending on structures fell 10.6 percent,
partly reflecting decreased investment on oil and gas drilling
rigs, but the decline followed a strong 4.0 percent advance in
the first quarter. Fixed investment in intellectual property
products grew 4.7 percent in the second quarter; growth in
this category has risen at a double-digit pace in three of the
last five quarters. After three consecutive quarters of
positive contributions to growth, the cycle of inventory
accumulation turned negative in the second quarter,
subtracting nearly 0.9 percentage point from real GDP.
Residential investment retrenched for the sixth
consecutive quarter in 2019 Q2, but the decline continued to
taper relative to last year. Since Spring 2018, a sharp
reduction in the value of construction put in place has driven
overall residential investment expenditures lower. Even so,
there are gathering signs of stabilization in the housing
sector as well as ongoing improvements in affordability and
inventories. Existing home sales, which account for 90
percent of all home sales, are almost 5 ½-percent higher on
the year through June, and new single-family home sales
have grown by nearly 15 percent over the first six months of
this year. Total housing starts are up 6.2 percent over the
twelve months ending in June, and for five of the past six
months, total building permits have remained above total
housing starts, pointing to a further pickup in homebuilding.
Consistent with these signs, the National Association of
Home Builder’s home builder confidence index has trended
higher during the first six months of this year, retracing
almost half of last year’s decline. Although inventories of
home sales continue to trend higher, they remain relatively
low compared to historical averages. Affordability has
improved as well: monthly and 12-month measures of house
prices have slowed considerably, though 12-month growth
continues to exceed core inflation and income gains. In
addition to slower growth in home prices, mortgage rates
have declined over a full percentage point from levels seen
last fall, also contributing to greater affordability.
Total government spending rose 5.0 percent at an annual
rate in the second quarter, following a 2.9 percent advance in
the first quarter. Over the past six quarters, government
spending has added 0.4 percentage point, on average, to
GDP growth, stepping up from essentially neutral
contributions in 2016 and 2017. Federal outlays rose 7.9
percent in the second quarter, the fastest pace in ten years,
following a 2.2 percent increase in the first quarter. State
and local government spending has been growing more
consistently since the end of 2017 and increased 3.2 percent
in the second quarter of 2019, close to the 3.3 percent
advance in the previous quarter. Altogether, government
spending added 0.9 percentage point to real GDP growth in
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signed at the beginning of August should reduce fiscal
uncertainty and provide stimulus in the next two years.
The U.S. trade deficit widened in the second quarter of
2019, as export growth turned sharply negative, declining
5.2 percent, and import growth edged up 0.1 percent. After
making a large, 0.7 percentage point contribution to growth
in the first quarter, net exports subtracted almost 0.7
percentage point from real GDP growth in 2019 Q2, posing
a significant drag on growth.

Labor Markets and Wages
During 2018, monthly job growth averaged 223,000,
well above the 179,000 monthly average for 2017 as well as
the 193,000 monthly average for 2016. Thus far in 2019
through July, job creation has slowed somewhat, but has
averaged a solid 165,000 per month. After reaching a 49year low of 3.6 percent in April and May, the unemployment
rate edged up to 3.7 percent in June, where it remained in
July. Broader measures of unemployment also continued to
improve. The most comprehensive measure of labor market
slack, the U-6 unemployment rate, which includes those
marginally attached to the labor force and those working
part-time for economic reasons, declined to 7.0 percent in
July, the lowest level since December 2000, as well as 2.1
percentage points below the pre-recession average of 9.1
percent. The unemployment rate of those unemployed for
27 weeks or more, as a share of the unemployed, declined to
19.2 percent in July, an 11-year low. The TCJA has drawn
workers back into the labor force, and in numbers that have
helped offset the downward pressure on the rate from the
aging population. The labor force participation rate rose to
63.0 percent in July, modestly below the five-year high of
63.2 percent reached in January and February.
The pace of nominal wage growth for private-sector
production and nonsupervisory workers resumed an
accelerating trend towards the end of 2018 and into 2019.
These gains, coupled with the slowdown in inflation, have
helped boost growth in real wages as well. Nominal average
hourly earnings for private production and nonsupervisory
workers grew 3.3 percent over the 12 months through July
2019, just below the 3.5 percent rate posted in December
2018 – the latter was the fastest pace since February 2009.
Nominal average hourly earnings for all private industry
workers grew 3.2 percent over the year through July 2019.
Using the CPI-W to deflate these nominal rates, real average
hourly earnings for private production and nonsupervisory
workers grew 1.8 percent over the year through June 2019
(latest data available), and real average hourly earnings for
all private industry workers rose 1.7 percent over the same
period.

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recent four quarters, hourly compensation costs rose 1.5
percent. Unit labor costs, which represent the interaction of
productivity and compensation, declined 1.6 percent at an
annual rate in the first quarter, following a 0.4 percent
decrease in the fourth quarter of 2018. These costs were
down 0.8 percent over the latest four quarters.
Although the nonfarm compensation measure does not
provide detailed data on how its components have moved
recently, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) provides
perspective on growth of the main components of
compensation. The ECI for nominal hourly compensation
for all civilian workers rose 2.7 percent in the 12 months
through June 2019. Wages and salaries were up 2.9 percent
through June 2019 from a year earlier, while benefits costs
rose 2.3 percent over the year through June 2019.

Industrial Production, Manufacturing and
Services

Nonfarm Productivity of Labor
Labor productivity has shown consistent improvement
for more than two years; not since 2004 have four-quarter
labor productivity growth rates remained at or above 1
percent for ten consecutive quarters.
Most recently,
productivity has improved more dramatically: following
growth of 1.3 percent at an annual rate in the final quarter of
2018, productivity growth accelerated to a 3.4 percent
annual rate, the most rapid pace since the third quarter of
2014. Output grew 3.9 percent in the first quarter while
hours worked were up 0.5 percent. Over the year ending in
2019 Q1, productivity increased 2.4 percent, considerably
faster than the 1.1 percent increase through 2018 Q1 and the
fastest four-quarter pace since 2010 Q3.
Hourly compensation costs in the nonfarm business
sector rose 1.8 percent at an annual rate in the first quarter,
double the first quarter’s 0.9 percent pace. Over the most

A variety of measures of industrial production,
manufacturing, and services reached multi-year highs last
year but have generally trended lower this year.
Industrial output at factories, mines, and utilities declined
1.2 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter of 2019,
following a 1.9 percent decline in the first quarter.
However, over the 12 months ending in June, output was
still up 1.3 percent.
Manufacturing production, which accounts for about 75
percent of all industrial output, declined 2.2 percent at an
annual rate in the second quarter of 2019, after declining 1.9
percent in the first quarter. Nonetheless, the quarter saw
solid gains in the output of motor vehicles and hightechnology goods. During the second quarter of 2019, motor
vehicle production – which can be very volatile - advanced
4.9 percent at an annual rate, while the output of
semiconductors and related electronic components jumped
up 5.6 percent at an annual rate. Over the 12 months
through June, manufacturing output increased 0.4 percent.
Excluding motor vehicles and parts and high-technology
industries, manufacturing declined 3.0 percent at an annual
rate during the second quarter, but was up 0.1 percent over
the year through June.
Output at mines, which accounts for 15 percent of
industrial output, surged 8.9 percent in the second quarter of
2019, following a 2.0 percent increase in the first quarter.
Over the 12 months through June 2019, mining output,
which includes crude oil production, rose 8.7 percent.
Utilities output, the remaining 10 percent of total
industrial output, decreased 6.7 percent at an annual rate in
the second quarter of 2019, following a decline of 8.1
percent in the first quarter and a 9.0 percent advance in the
final quarter of 2018.
Weather is usually a factor
contributing to swings in this sector; unseasonable weather
in quarters often causes sharp swings in output from one
period to the next. Over the 12 months through June,
utilities production fell 2.6 percent.

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Other measures of manufacturing and services
production in the economy have trended lower from last
year’s multi-year highs.
The Institute of Supply
Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index declined to 51.2
in July 2019, while the ISM’s non-manufacturing index
declined to 53.7. Although each index is at its lowest level
since August 2016, both continue point to expansion in
business activity.

Prices
According to several measures, consumer price inflation
has been slowing at the headline level for more than one
year. Over the 12 months through June 2019, the consumer
price index (CPI) for all items rose 1.7 percent, a marked
deceleration from the 2.8 percent, 12-month reading over the
year through June 2018. Energy prices have declined
significantly since the summer of 2018; over the year
through June 2019, energy prices dropped 3.4 percent,
compared to a 12.2 percent jump a year earlier. Food price
inflation has trended higher thus far in 2019: food prices
advanced 1.9 percent over the 12 months through June 2019,
accelerating from the year-earlier pace of 1.4 percent. The
core CPI (which excludes food and energy) rose by 2.1
percent over the year through June, a bit slower than the 2.3
percent advance over the year through June 2018.
Headline inflation, as measured by the Personal
Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index (the measure
in which the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent inflation target is
expressed), has run below the target for eight consecutive
months, and was 1.4 percent over the year through June
2019, a full percentage point below the 2.4 percent reading
of a year earlier. After running at a nearly two-year low in
March, April, and May, the core PCE inflation rate edged up
to 1.6 percent over the year through June 2019, decelerating
from the 2.0 percent pace over the year-earlier period.

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House price appreciation remains relatively strong,
exceeding core inflation and income growth measures, but
monthly and yearly paces are well below peak rates and
have decelerated more significantly in recent months. The
FHFA purchase-only home price index rose 5.0 percent over
the year ending in May 2019, slowing from the 6.8 percent,
year-earlier rise. The Standard and Poor’s (S&P)/CaseShiller composite 20-city home price index rose 2.4 percent
over the year ending in May 2019, a pace less than one-half
the year-earlier rate of 6.5 percent.

Consumer and Business Sentiment
Measures of consumer and business sentiment have
trended higher in recent months, remaining close to the
multi-year or all-time highs reached last year. In July, the
Reuters/Michigan consumer sentiment index rose 0.2 point
to 98.4, or 3 points below the 14-year high of 101.4 reached
in March 2018. Notably, this index averaged 98.4 per month
in 2018, the highest monthly average reading for any year
since 2000. The Conference Board’s confidence index
surged 11.4 points in July to 135.7, or only about 2 points
below the 18-year high of 137.9 reached in October 2018.
Although the National Federation of Independent Business’s
(NFIB) small business optimism index declined 1.7 point to
103.3 in June, it remains only about 5 points below the
record high of 108.8 reached in August 2018.

Federal Budget and Debt
The Federal Government posted a deficit of $779 billion
(3.8 percent of GDP) at the end of the fiscal year for 2018,
rising from $666 billion (3.5 percent of GDP) in FY 2017.
The primary deficit (which excludes net interest payments)
was 2.2 percent of GDP in FY 2018, up 0.1 percentage point
from FY 2017. Federal receipts totaled $3.33 trillion (16.5
percent of GDP) in FY 2018, declining from 17.2 percent of
GDP in FY 2017. Net outlays for FY 2018 were $4.11
trillion (20.3 percent of GDP), down from 20.7 percent of
GDP in FY 2017. Excluding net interest payments, outlays
were equivalent to 18.7 percent of GDP in FY 2018, down
from 19.3 percent in FY 2017. Federal debt held by the
public, or federal debt less that held in government accounts,
rose 7.4 percent to $15.75 trillion by the end of FY 2018.
Publicly-held debt as a share of GDP increased by
1.7 percentage points to 77.8 percent of GDP.
The Administration’s Mid-Session Review for Fiscal
Year 2020 was released in July 2019. The Administration
projects the federal deficit will rise to $1.00 trillion
(4.7 percent of GDP) in FY 2019. From FY 2020 to
FY 2024, the deficit would total $4.50 trillion (3.7 percent of
GDP on average).
The projection assumes the
Administration’s proposals – including increased spending
on national defense, cuts to non-defense discretionary
outlays, elimination of the Affordable Care Act, and reform
of multiple welfare programs – will be implemented. On
net, these proposals would gradually reduce the deficit to

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$218 billion (0.6 percent of GDP) by FY 2029. The Budget
expects that the primary deficit (which excludes net interest
outlays) will be 2.9 percent of GDP in FY 2019 but will turn
into a small primary surplus by FY 2025. Debt held by the
public would peak at 81.3 percent of GDP in FY 2022 but
would gradually decline to 70.0 percent of GDP by
FY 2029.
On August 2, 2019, the President signed the Bipartisan
Budget Act of 2019 into law. The legislation significantly
decreases fiscal uncertainty by setting discretionary
spending levels for the next two fiscal years – thereby
reducing the chances of a government shutdown – and
forestalls a debt crisis by suspending Treasury’s borrowing
limit until July 31, 2021. The Bipartisan Budget Act lifted
caps established in 2011 and allowed for $1.3 trillion in
defense and nondefense discretionary spending over the next
two fiscal years, which should provide a boost to economic
growth in the near term.

Economic Policy
In December 2017, the United States enacted the first
major tax reform in three decades. The new tax code is
designed to strengthen markedly incentives for economic
growth and to deliver tax relief to households. The new tax
law lowered the U.S. corporate tax rate from one of the
highest in the developed world to near the average of other
advanced economies; it allows businesses to deduct
immediately 100 percent of the cost of most of their new
capital investments for the next five years; and it reduces
individual taxes through lower tax rates, a larger standard
deduction, and an expanded child tax credit. Combined with
regulatory reforms and infrastructure initiatives, tax reform
has encouraged people to start new businesses and workers
to re-enter the labor market. The new tax law may also
support a sustained increase in productivity.
On the monetary policy side, the Federal Reserve’s
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) pursued a cycle
of monetary tightening from December 2105 until June
2019, a period that saw the Federal funds rate target raised
from the historically low range of 0 to 0.25 percent to a
range of 2.25 to 2.50 percent. On July 31, 2019, however,
the FOMC cut the target range for the first time in over ten
years, reducing the target range by 25 basis points to 2.0 to
2.25 percent.
During the period of monetary policy tightening, the
Federal Reserve also sought to normalize long-term interest
rates. At its meeting on September 19-20, 2017, the FOMC
announced it would initiate a balance sheet normalization
program in October 2017, a program intended to reduce the
Federal Reserve’s holdings of securities on a gradual basis
through a decrease in the reinvestment of principal payments
from those securities. At its meeting on October 31November 1, 2017, the FOMC indicated that the
normalization program “is proceeding” but no further
mention of the program was made in subsequent
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the FOMC revised its earlier guidance on this program,
stating it would be “prepared to adjust” normalization “in
light of economic and financial developments.” At its
March 19-20, 2019 meeting, the FOMC announced that
beginning in May 2019, it would limit the amount of
maturing Treasury securities to roll off the balance sheet to
$15 billion per month, and would conclude the reduction of
its aggregate securities holdings at the end of September
2019. The Committee also indicated it would maintain the
current pace of roll-off of agency debt and mortgage-backed
securities (MBS) at $20 billion per month. At its April 30May 1, 2019 meeting, the FOMC re-affirmed that it would
stop allowing Treasury securities to roll off its balance sheet,
and would invest up to $20 billion of maturing agency
debt/MBS in Treasury securities. With the onset of the
current cycle of easing at the July 31, 2019 FOMC meeting,
the Committee also announced that it would stop maturing
Treasury securities to roll off the balance sheet at the
beginning of August, rather than at the end of September
(i.e. two months earlier than previously indicated), in order
to remove upward pressure on the Federal funds rate from
these operations.

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INTRODUCTION: Federal Fiscal Operations
Budget authority usually takes the form of
appropriations that allow obligations to be incurred and
payments to be made. Reappropriations are Congressional
actions that extend the availability of unobligated amounts
that have expired or would otherwise expire. These are
counted as new budget authority in the fiscal year of the
legislation in which the reappropriation act is included,
regardless of when the amounts were originally appropriated
or when they would otherwise lapse.
Obligations generally are liquidated by the issuance of
checks or the disbursement of cash—outlays. Obligations
may also be liquidated (and outlays recorded) by the accrual
of interest on public issues of Treasury debt securities
(including an increase in redemption value of bonds
outstanding); or by the issuance of bonds, debentures, notes,
monetary credits, or electronic payments.
Refunds of collections generally are treated as
reductions of collections, whereas payments for earnedincome tax credits in excess of tax liabilities are treated as
outlays. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of
obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
Outlays, therefore, flow in part from unexpended balances
of prior year budget authority and from budget authority
provided for the year in which the money is spent. Total
outlays include both budget and off-budget outlays and are
stated net of offsetting collections.
Receipts are reported in the tables as either budget
receipts or offsetting collections. They are collections from
the public, excluding receipts offset against outlays. These,
also called governmental receipts, consist mainly of tax
receipts (including social insurance taxes), receipts from
court fines, certain licenses, and deposits of earnings by the
Federal Reserve system. Refunds of receipts are treated as
deductions from gross receipts. Total Government receipts
are compared with total outlays in calculating the budget
surplus or deficit.
Offsetting collections from other Government accounts
or the public are of a business-type or market-oriented
nature. They are classified as either collections credited to
appropriations or fund accounts, or offsetting receipts (i.e.,
amounts deposited in receipt accounts). The former
normally can be used without an appropriation act by
Congress. These occur in two instances: (1) when
authorized by law, amounts collected for materials or
services are treated as reimbursements to appropriations.
For accounting purposes, earned reimbursements are also
known as revenues. These offsetting collections are netted
against gross outlays in determining net outlays from such
appropriations; and (2) in the three types of revolving funds
(public enterprise, intragovernmental, and trust); offsetting
collections are netted against spending, and outlays are
reported as the net amount.

September 2019

Offsetting receipts in receipt accounts cannot be used
without appropriation. They are subdivided into three
categories: (1) proprietary receipts, or collections from the
public, offset against outlays by agency and by function; (2)
intragovernmental transactions, or payments into receipt
accounts from governmental appropriation or fund accounts.
They finance operations within and between Government
agencies and are credited with collections from other
Government accounts; and (3) offsetting governmental
receipts that include foreign cash contributions.
Intrabudgetary transactions are subdivided into three
categories: (1) interfund transactions—payments are from
one fund group (either Federal funds or trust funds) to a
receipt account in the other fund group; (2) Federal
intrafund transactions—payments and receipts both occur
within the Federal fund group; and (3) trust intrafund
transactions—payments and receipts both occur within the
trust fund group.
Offsetting receipts are generally deducted from budget
authority and outlays by function, subfunction, or agency.
There are four types of receipts, however, that are deducted
from budget totals as undistributed offsetting receipts. They
are: (1) agencies’ payments (including payments by offbudget Federal entities) as employers into employees’
retirement funds; (2) interest received by trust funds; (3)
rents and royalties on the Outer Continental Shelf lands; and
(4) other interest (i.e., that collected on Outer Continental
Shelf money in deposit funds when such money is
transferred into the budget).
The Government has used the unified budget concept set
forth in the “Report of the President’s Commission on
Budget Concepts” as a foundation for its budgetary analysis
and presentation since 1969. The concept calls for the
budget to include all of the Government’s fiscal transactions
with the public. Since 1971, however, various laws have
been enacted removing several Federal entities from (or
creating them outside of) the budget. Other laws have
moved certain off-budget Federal entities onto the budget.
Under current law, the off-budget Federal entities consist of
the two Social Security trust funds, Federal Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance
Trust Fund, and the Postal Service.
Although an off-budget Federal entity’s receipts,
outlays, and surplus or deficit ordinarily are not subject to
targets set by the Congressional resolution, the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
[commonly known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act as
amended by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 United
States Code 900-922)] included off-budget surplus or deficit
in calculating deficit targets under that act and in calculating
excess deficit. Partly for this reason, attention has focused

FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS
on both on- and off-budget receipts, outlays and deficit of
the Government.
Tables FFO-1, FFO-2, and FFO-3 are published
quarterly and cover 5 years of data, estimates for 2 years,
detail for 13 months, and fiscal year-to-date data. They
provide a summary of data relating to Federal fiscal
operations reported by Federal entities and disbursing
officers, and daily reports from the FRBs. They also detail
accounting transactions affecting receipts and outlays of the
Government and off-budget Federal entities and their related
effect on assets and liabilities of the Government. Data are
derived from the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts
and Outlays of the United States Government.”

 Table FFO-1 summarizes the amount of total
receipts, outlays, and surplus or deficit, as well as
transactions in Federal securities, monetary assets, and
balances in Treasury operating cash.
 Table FFO-2 includes on- and off-budget receipts
by source. Amounts represent income taxes, social
insurance taxes, net contributions for other insurance and
retirement, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs
duties, and net miscellaneous receipts.
 Table FFO-3 details on- and off-budget outlays by
agency.

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 Table FFO-4 summarizes on- and off-budget
receipts by source and outlays by function as reported to
each major fund group classification for the current fiscal
year to date and prior fiscal year to date.
 Table FFO-5 summarizes internal revenue receipts
by states and by type of tax. Amounts reported are
collections made in a fiscal year. They span several tax
liability years because they consist of prepayments
(estimated tax payments and taxes withheld by employers
for individual income and Social Security taxes), payments
made with tax returns and subsequent payments made after
tax returns are due or are filed (that is, payments with
delinquent returns or on delinquent accounts).
Amounts are reported based on the primary filing
address provided by each taxpayer or reporting entity. For
multistate corporations, the address may reflect only the
district where such a corporation reported its taxes from a
principal office rather than other districts where income was
earned or where individual income and Social Security taxes
were withheld. In addition, an individual may reside in one
district and work in another.
 Table FFO-6 includes customs collection of duties,
taxes, and fees by districts and ports.

Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government
and Third-Quarter Receipts by Source
[Source: Office of Tax Analysis, Office of Tax Policy]

Third-Quarter Receipts
The following capsule analysis of budget receipts, by
source, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019
supplements fiscal data reported in the June issue of the
“Treasury Bulletin.” At the time of that issue’s release,
not enough data were available to analyze adequately
collections for the quarter.
Individual income taxes—Individual income tax
receipts, net of refunds, were $577.6 billion for the third
quarter of fiscal year 2019. This is an increase of $8.4
billion over the comparable prior year quarter. Withheld
receipts increased by $3.6 billion and non-withheld receipts
decreased by $3.7 billion during this period. Refunds
decreased by $8.6 billion over the comparable fiscal year
2018 quarter. There was a $21.2 billion change in
accounting adjustments between individual income tax
receipts and the Social Security and Medicare trust funds
over the comparable quarter in fiscal year 2018.
Corporate income taxes—Net corporate income tax
receipts were $96.4 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year
2019. This is an increase of $13.3 billion compared to the
prior year third quarter. The $13.3 billion change is

comprised of an increase of $15.4 billion in estimated and
final payments, and an increase of $2.1 billion in corporate
refunds.
Employment taxes and contributions—Employment
taxes and contributions receipts for the third quarter of fiscal
year 2019 were $340.1 billion, an increase of $36.7 billion
over the comparable prior year quarter. Receipts to the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, Federal
Disability Insurance, and Federal Hospital Insurance trust
funds changed by $34.4 billion, -$5.5 billion, and $7.9
billion respectively. There was a $7.7 billion accounting
adjustment for prior years employment tax liabilities made
in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. There was a -$13.5
billion adjustment in the third quarter of fiscal year 2018.
Unemployment insurance—Unemployment insurance
receipts, net of refunds, for the third quarter of fiscal year
2019 were $21.6 billion, a decrease of $0.8 billion over the
comparable quarter of fiscal year 2018. Net State taxes
deposited in the U.S. Treasury decreased by $0.7 billion to
$18.2 billion. Net Federal Unemployment Tax Act taxes
decreased by $0.1 billion to $3.6 billion.

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FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS

Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government
and Third-Quarter Receipts by Source, continued
Contributions for other insurance and retirement—
Contributions for other retirement were $1.2 billion for the
third quarter of fiscal year 2019. This was an increase of
$0.1 billion from the comparable quarter of fiscal year 2018.
Excise taxes—Net excise tax receipts for the third
quarter of fiscal year 2019 were $21.8 billion, an increase of
$0.2 billion over the comparable prior year quarter. Total
excise tax refunds for the quarter were $1.0 billion, an
increase of $0.2 billion over the comparable prior year
quarter.
Estate and gift taxes—Net estate and gift tax receipts
were $4.1 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019.

These receipts represent a decrease of $1.7 billion over the
same quarter in fiscal year 2018.
Customs duties—Customs duties net of refunds were
$15.8 billion for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. This is
an increase of $5.9 billion over the comparable prior year
quarter.
Miscellaneous receipts— Net miscellaneous receipts
for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019 were $22.9 billion, a
decrease of $4.3 billion over the comparable prior year
quarter. This change is due in part to deposits of earnings by
Federal Reserve banks decreasing by $1.8 billion.

Total On- and Off-Budget Results and Financing of the U.S. Government
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Third quarter 2019
April – June
Total on- and off-budget results:
Total receipts ...............................................................
On-budget receipts ..................................................
Off-budget receipts ..................................................
Total outlays .................................................................
On-budget outlays....................................................
Off-budget outlays....................................................
Total surplus or deficit (-) .............................................
On-budget surplus or deficit (-) ................................
Off-budget surplus or deficit (-) ................................
Means of financing:
Borrowing from the public ............................................
Reduction of operating cash ........................................
Other means ................................................................
Total on- and off-budget financing ...........................

Fiscal year 2019
year to date

1,101,561
839,660
261,901
1,157,502
944,144
213,359
-55,940
-104,483
48,543

2,608,854
1,911,550
697,303
3,355,969
2,699,177
656,794
-747,116
-787,623
40,509

-15,034
70,303
672
55,941

428,378
121,004
197,731
747,113

Third-Quarter Net Budget Receipts by Source, Fiscal Year 2019
[In billions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Source
Individual income taxes......................................................
Corporate income taxes .....................................................
Employment and general retirement..................................
Unemployment insurance ..................................................
Contributions for other insurance and retirement ..............
Excise taxes .......................................................................
Estate and gift taxes ..........................................................
Customs duties ..................................................................
Miscellaneous receipts .......................................................
Total budget receipts .....................................................
Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to independent rounding.

September 2019

April

May

June

332.8
44.7
124.9
9.8
0.4
7.1
2.3
5.2
8.3
535.5

103.7
0.4
95.1
11.6
0.5
7.6
0.8
4.9
7.6
232.1

141.1
51.3
120.1
0.2
0.4
7.1
1.1
5.6
7.0
334.0

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TABLE FFO-1—Summary of Fiscal Operations
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Total on-budget and off-budget results

Fiscal year
or Month

2014 ............................
2015 ............................
2016 ............................
2017 ............................
2018 ............................

Total
Receipts
(1)

On-budget
receipts
(2)

Off-budget
receipts
(3)

Total
outlays
(4)

On-budget
outlays
(5)

Off-budget
outlays
(6)

Total
surplus
deficit (-)
(7)

On-budget
surplus
deficit (-)
(8)

Off-budget
surplus
deficit (-)
(9)

Means of
financing
-net transactions
Borrowing from
the publicFederal securities
Public debt
securities
(10)

3,020,847
3,248,722
3,266,689
3,314,893
3,328,745

2,285,246
2,478,328
2,456,509
2,464,275
2,473,999

735,602
770,394
810,180
850,617
854,747

3,504,199
3,687,623
3,854,101
3,980,720
4,107,741

2,798,105
2,944,526
3,077,747
3,179,518
3,259,170

706,095
743,097
776,354
801,202
848,573

-483,353
-438,900
-587,413
-665,826
-778,995

-512,857
-466,197
-621,238
-715,242
-785,172

29,507
27,297
33,826
49,416
6,175

1,076,474
325,601
1,419,286
666,472
1,258,348

2019 – Est1 .................. 3,472,324
2020 – Est1 .................. 3,631,874

2,557,867
2,685,416

914,457
946,458

4,472,961
4,676,957

3,565,608
3,714,389

907,353
962,568

-1,000,637
-1,045,083

-1,007,741
-1,028,973

7,104
-16,110

1,236,509
1,221,986

316,278
225,266
219,115
343,559
252,692
205,961
312,584
339,980
167,265
228,811
535,545
232,064
333,952

245,056
158,870
151,335
268,757
190,915
139,336
242,999
253,837
95,390
149,414
439,736
158,229
241,695

71,222
66,396
67,780
74,803
61,777
66,625
69,585
86,143
71,875
79,397
95,809
73,835
92,257

391,136
302,131
433,263
224,443
353,183
410,864
326,123
331,299
401,243
375,756
375,240
439,833
342,429

344,954
228,731
327,487
167,661
279,122
328,697
284,536
256,096
316,103
290,479
299,230
352,744
292,170

46,182
73,401
105,776
56,783
74,061
82,166
41,588
75,203
85,140
85,278
76,011
87,089
50,259

-74,858
-76,865
-214,148
119,116
-100,491
-204,903
-13,539
8,681
-233,977
-146,945
160,305
-207,768
-8,476

-99,899
-69,861
-176,151
101,096
-88,207
-189,361
-41,537
-2,259
-220,713
-141,064
140,506
-194,514
-50,475

25,041
-7,005
-37,996
18,020
-12,284
-15,541
27,997
10,940
-13,265
-5,881
19,798
-13,254
41,999

50,078
118,154
144,334
57,121
182,430
145,837
125,473
9,784
132,191
-86,093
981
-1,439
7

Fiscal year 2019 to date ... 2,608,854

1,911,551

697,303

3,355,970

2,699,177

656,795

-747,113

-787,624

40,509

509,171

2018 - June .................
July ..................
Aug ..................
Sept .................
Oct ...................
Nov ..................
Dec ..................
2019 - Jan ...................
Feb ..................
Mar ..................
Apr ...................
May..................
June.................

Means of financing—net transactions, continued
Borrowing from the publicFederal securities, continued

Fiscal year
or month

Agency
securities
(11)

Investments
of Government
Total
accounts
10+11-12
(12)
(13)

Cash and monetary assets (deduct)
Reserve
position on the
U.S. Treasury
Special
U.S. quota in
the IMF
operating
drawing
cash
rights
Other
(deduct)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)

Other
(18)

Transaction
s not
applied to
year’s
surplus or
deficit
(19)

Total
Financing
(20)

2014 ......................................
2015 ......................................
2016 ......................................
2017 ......................................
2018 ......................................

-1,234
241
269
3
-1,545

277,668
-10,027
367,731
168,172
172,343

797,573
335,867
1,051,824
498,301
1,084,458

69,916
40,415
154,593
-193,988
225,390

-1,817
-2,815
-279
1,390
-527

188
-3,114
-1,268
-935
-2,661

-4,994
-6,425
230
1,938
3,857

-250,098
127,111
-310,961
-24,443
-79,242

-834
970
-171
259
-160

483,348
435,887
587,416
665,714
778,997

2019 – Est1............................
2020 – Est1............................

-767
-1,245

166,492
108,409

1,069,250
1,112,332

287
0

0
0

0
0

0
0

-68,325
-67,249

0
0

1,000,637
1,045,083

2018 - June ...........................
July ............................
Aug ............................
Sept ...........................
Oct.............................
Nov ............................
Dec ............................
2019 - Jan .............................
Feb ............................
Mar ............................
Apr.............................
May ...........................
June ..........................

-199
-73
-386
-230
25
149
-55
-142
-297
-299
4
-55
-152

10,530
14,751
-70,312
81,327
101,558
-54,151
66,822
9,538
-17,719
-40,460
13,179
-10,992
12,192

39,349
103,330
214,260
-24,436
80,897
200,137
58,595
103
149,613
-45,932
-12,194
9,497
-12,337

-21,588
25,354
-40,189
66,742
-18,116
-21,723
57,264
1,459
-112,933
43,348
88,573
-189,711
30,835

-368
-62
-84
-224
-479
87
276
362
-42
-356
-92
-237
461

163
-414
-23
-501
-354
60
-839
-62
-202
58
-334
271
137

3,006
1
190
21
1,058
185
1,947
39
401
-38
2,367
21
273

16,817
-1,550
-40,165
-28,814
1,866
-16,616
13,567
-7,121
-28,345
236,022
-57,560
-359,288
52,322

-95
-36
-53
172
-163
-9
25
133
-67
-133
-37
-170
197

74,858
76,865
214,148
-119,116
100,491
204,903
13,539
-8,683
233,977
146,945
-160,305
-160,305
8,476

Fiscal year 2019 to date .......

-822

79,967

428,379

-121,004

-20

-1,265

6,253

-165,153

-224

379,038

Note: Detail may not add to total due to rounding.
estimates are based on the President's FY 2020 Mid-Session Review, released by the Office of
Management and Budget on July 12, 2019.

1These

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TABLE FFO-2—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Social insurance
and retirement receipts
Employment and general retirement
Old-age, disability, and
hospital insurance

Income taxes

Fiscal year
or month

Individual

Corporation

Other
(2)

Refunds
(3)

2014 ..................
2015 ..................
2016 ..................
2017 ..................
2018 ..................

1,149,709
1,220,161
1,245,698
1,309,265
1,325,106

476,591
554,993
551,660
539,528
626,555

231,733
234,352
251,286
261,678
268,126

1,394,567
1,540,802
1,546,076
1,587,120
1,683,536

353,553
390,291
345,981
338,978
263,168

32,822
46,495
46,411
41,929
58,433

320,729
343,798
299,572
297,048
204,734

1,715,296
1,884,598
1,845,646
1,884,168
1,888,270

962,237
1,007,385
1,060,162
1,109,837
1,118,641

2,529
2,801
3,159
3,290
3,234

959,708
1,004,584
1,056,993
1,106,547
1,115,407

2019 – Est1 ........
2020 – Est1 ........

1,719,038
1,805,420

0
0

0
0

1,719,038
1,805,420

221,231
253,076

0
0

221,231
253,076

1,940,269
2,058,496

1,192,011
1,233,642

0
0

1,192,011
1,233,642

2018 - June .......
July ........
Aug ........
Sept .......
Oct .........
Nov ........
Dec ........
2019 - Jan .........
Feb ........
Mar ........
Apr .........
May........
June.......

99,337
104,792
101,508
84,133
111,264
94,390
137,260
109,148
116,736
135,770
113,857
108,285
76,127

70,784
9,779
9,343
81,610
29,008
8,078
16,327
89,548
7,926
16,889
283,508
10,611
69,403

7,773
4,911
4,412
3,794
11,407
9,097
3,030
1,560
68,001
55,422
64,556
15,204
4,383

162,349
109,660
106,439
161,949
128,866
93,371
150,557
197,136
56,661
97,236
332,809
103,692
141,149

41,027
7,524
3,987
44,831
8,962
3,996
51,888
8,363
3,774
13,605
51,095
6,291
54,129

3,025
3,228
7,440
2,649
962
5,642
5,133
1,610
4,442
4,812
6,407
5,880
2,860

38,001
4,296
-3,453
42,182
8,000
-1,646
46,755
6,754
-669
8,793
44,688
411
51,269

200,350
113,956
102,986
204,131
136,866
91,725
197,312
203,890
55,992
106,029
377,497
104,103
192,418

93,678
85,934
87,815
102,012
82,775
89,430
93,490
111,255
91,623
101,253
124,379
94,545
120,240

3,234
-

93,678
85,934
87,815
98,778
82,775
89,430
93,490
111,255
91,623
101,253
124,379
94,545
120,240

Fiscal year
2019 to date........

1,002,837

531,298

232,660

1,301,477

202,103

37,748

164,355

1,465,832

908,990

-

908,990

Fiscal year
or month

Net
(4)

Gross
(5)

Refunds
(6)

Net
(7)

Net income
taxes
(8)

Withheld
(1)

Social insurance and retirement receipts, continued
Employment and general retirement, continued
Unemployment insurance
Net
employment
Net unRailroad retirement
and general
employment
retirement
Gross
Refunds
insurance
Gross
Refunds
Net
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
(12)
(13)
(14)

Gross
(9)

Refunds
(10)

Net
(11)

Net for other insurance and retirement
Federal
employees
Other
retirement
retirement
Total
(19)
(20)
(21)

2014 ............................
2015 ............................
2016 ............................
2017 ............................
2018 ............................

5,374
5,868
5,316
5,349
5,753

16
1
3
1
4

5,359
5,868
5,312
5,349
5,749

965,067
1,010,449
1,062,305
1,111,896
1,121,156

55,536
51,359
49,043
45,961
45,161

142
182
191
154
121

55,394
51,177
48,853
45,810
45,041

3,447
3,629
3,877
4,158
4,471

27
23
28
34
31

3,472
3,652
3,906
4,191
4,501

2019 – Est1..................
2020 – Est1..................

5,397
5,591

0
0

5,397
5,591

1,197,408
1,239,223

43,388
45,772

0
0

43,388
45,772

4,949
5,203

31
31

4,980
5,234

2018 - June .................
July ..................
Aug ..................
Sept .................
Oct...................
Nov ..................
Dec ..................
2019 - Jan ...................
Feb ..................
Mar ..................
Apr...................
May .................
June ................

-53
581
519
465
480
395
438
514
712
537
533
521
-121

1
-1
4
7

-53
580
521
465
480
395
438
514
712
537
533
516
-129

93,625
86,514
88,335
99,243
83,255
89,824
93,928
111,769
92,335
101,791
124,912
95,061
120,112

327
4,004
3,828
258
2,941
2,650
292
3,038
2,427
348
9,916
11,578
268

14
25
12
10
6
73
77
25
18

313
3,979
3,817
248
2,941
2,650
292
3,038
2,421
275
9,839
11,553
249

432
387
368
428
355
444
422
254
467
357
376
466
382

2
2
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
3
2
2

434
389
371
431
357
446
424
256
467
359
378
468
385

Fiscal year
2019 to date ......................

4,009

11

3,996

912,987

33,458

199

33,258

3,523

18

3,540

See footnotes at end of table.

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TABLE FFO-2—On-Budget and Off-Budget Receipts by Source, continued
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Social
insurance
and retirement
receipts, con.
Net social
insurance and
retirement
receipts
(22)

Fiscal year
or month

Excise taxes
Black Lung Disability
Trust Fund

Airport and Airway Trust Fund
Gross
(23)

Net
(25)

Refunds
(24)

Gross Refunds
(26)
(27)

Highway Trust Fund

Net
(28)

Gross
(29)

Refunds
(30)

Miscellaneous
Net
(31)

Gross
(32)

Refunds
(33)

Net
(34)

2014 .............................. 1,023,933
2015 .............................. 1,065,278
2016 .............................. 1,115,063
2017 .............................. 1,161,897
2018 .............................. 1,170,699

13,467
13,401
14,379
14,952
15,532

16
18
16
15
15

13,451
13,383
14,363
14,936
15,516

573
546
465
426
394

-

573
546
465
426
394

39,036
38,132
41,432
41,555
42,979

63
431
438

39,036
38,132
41,369
41,126
42,541

44,716
50,802
45,284
32,495
39,650

4,405
4,585
6,440
5,162
3,116

40,310
46,217
38,846
27,334
36,535

2019 – Est1 ................... 1,245,776
2020 – Est1 ................... 1,290,239

16,219
17,056

0
0

16,219
17,056

232
170

0
0

232
170

42,709
43,121

0
0

42,709
43,121

38,893
48,303

0
0

38,893
48,303

94,372
90,882
92,523
99,922
86,553
92,921
94,643
115,064
95,225
102,424
135,129
107,082
120,746

1,684
1,370
841
2,144
254
1,548
1,338
1,209
1,418
1,169
1,399
1,558
1,524

3
1
8
1
-

1,684
1,370
838
2,142
254
1,548
1,338
1,209
1,418
1,161
1,399
1,556
1,524

12
33
9
65
8
38
33
30
17
6
16
11
14

-

12
33
9
65
8
38
33
30
17
6
16
11
14

4,296
3,547
2,524
6,733
801
4,290
3,785
3,351
3,610
3,919
3,537
3,279
3,725

44
43
42
63
15
29
29
30
31
31
37
44
44

4,252
3,504
2,481
6,669
786
4,261
3,756
3,321
3,579
3,889
3,499
3,235
3,681

1,566
3,216
4,942
7,707
16,250
1,877
2,209
2,262
893
3,001
2,667
2,940
2,160

171
407
117
504
2,583
190
157
46
554
216
488
150
268

1,395
2,808
4,826
7,202
13,667
1,687
2,052
2,216
339
2,786
2,179
2,791
1,891

Fiscal year
2019 to date ...................... 949,787

11,417

9

11,407

173

-

173

30,297

290

30,007

34,259

4,652

29,608

2018 - June ...................
July....................
Aug....................
Sept...................
Oct ....................
Nov....................
Dec....................
2019 - Jan .....................
Feb ....................
Mar ....................
Apr ....................
May ...................
June ..................

Fiscal year
or month
2014 .......................
2015 .......................
2016 .......................
2017 .......................
2018 .......................

Excise
taxes, con.
Net excise
taxes
(35)

Customs duties

Estate and gift taxes
Gross
(36)

Refunds
(37)

Net
(38)

Gross
(39)

Refunds
(40)

Net
(41)

Net miscellaneous receipts
Deposits of
earnings by Universal
Federal
service fund
and all
Reserve
other
Total
banks
(43)
(44)
(42)

Total receipts
On-budget
(45)

Off-budget
(46)

93,367
98,278
95,044
83,821
94,987

20,153
20,043
22,337
23,779
23,864

854
811
983
1,012
883

19,301
19,232
21,354
22,770
22,982

35,348
37,704
36,468
36,260
43,097

1,423
2,666
1,630
1,686
1,796

33,927
35,042
34,836
34,573
41,298

99,233
96,469
115,671
81,288
70,751

35,788
49,827
39,070
46,380
39,755

135,023
146,294
154,744
127,666
110,505

2,285,245
2,478,328
2,456,508
2,464,275
2,473,999

735,602
770,394
810,180
850,617
854,747

2019 – Est1 ............. 98,053
2020 – Est1 ............. 108,650

17,348
19,284

0
0

17,348
19,284

81,638
64,336

0
0

81,638
64,336

48,783
49,474

40,457
42,417

89,240
91,891

2,557,867
2,685,416

914,457
946,458

2018 - June ............
July .............
Aug .............
Sept ............
Oct ..............
Nov .............
Dec .............
2019 - Jan ..............
Feb .............
Mar .............
Apr ..............
May ............
June ...........

7,343
7,716
8,154
16,079
14,715
7,535
7,179
6,776
5,353
7,841
7,093
7,593
7,110

1,699
1,862
2,010
2,361
2,037
1,483
1,744
1,151
1,296
1,003
2,391
909
1,144

87
79
78
72
84
77
69
58
67
67
121
121
57

1,612
1,783
1,932
2,290
1,954
1,405
1,675
1,092
1,229
935
2,270
788
1,087

3,616
4,252
4,627
4,768
5,826
6,459
6,129
6,662
5,418
5,382
5,509
5,099
5,822

106
93
377
195
276
175
138
34
342
220
272
165
216

3,510
4,159
4,249
4,572
5,551
6,285
5,992
6,628
5,076
5,163
5,237
4,934
5,606

5,575
4,683
5,897
4,595
4,541
4,479
4,400
4,854
2,893
4,206
4,070
5,860
4,741

3,515
2,086
3,375
11,970
2,512
1,611
1,383
1,677
1,496
2,212
4,251
1,709
2,246

9,090
6,769
9,271
16,566
7,053
6,091
5,783
6,530
4,389
6,418
8,319
7,566
6,985

245,056
158,870
151,335
268,757
190,915
139,336
242,999
253,837
95,390
149,414
439,736
158,229
241,695

71,222
66,396
67,780
74,803
61,777
66,625
69,585
86,143
71,875
79,397
95,809
73,835
92,257

Fiscal year
2019 to date................

71,195

13,158

721

12,435

52,306

1,838

50,472

40,044

19,097

59,134

1,911,551

697,303

Note: Detail may not add to total due to rounding.
1These estimates are based on the President's FY 2020 Mid-Session Review, released by the Office of
Management and Budget on July 12, 2019.

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TABLE FFO-3—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Fiscal year
or month

Legislative
branch
(1)

Judicial
branch
(2)

Department of
Agriculture
(3)

Department of
Commerce
(4)

Department of
Depart- DepartDefense,
ment of ment of
military Education Energy
(6)
(7)
(5)

Department of
Health
and
Human
Services
(8)

Department of
Homeland
Security
(9)

Department of
Housing
and
Urban
Development
(10)

Department of
the
Interior
(11)

Department of
Justice
(12)

Department of
Labor
(13)

2014 .......................
2015 .......................
2016 .......................
2017 .......................
2018 .......................

4,156
4,328
4,344
4,499
4,670

6,900
7,130
7,497
7,565
7,780

141,806
139,112
138,161
127,563
136,713

6,675
8,955
9,162
10,303
8,561

578,013
562,506
565,365
568,905
600,705

59,609
90,031
76,981
111,703
63,706

23,630
25,425
25,852
25,794
26,479

936,030
1,027,420
1,102,966
1,116,763
1,120,503

43,259
42,563
45,194
50,502
68,374

38,524
35,522
26,393
55,623
54,666

11,273
12,348
12,584
12,141
13,210

28,617
26,910
29,523
30,979
34,522

57,199
45,218
41,371
40,121
39,637

2019 – Est1 .............
2020 – Est1 .............

5,832
5,545

8,108
8,668

155,175
132,362

13,428
15,523

657,911
696,928

106,308
82,878

29,123
30,810

1,215,986
1,287,078

58,749
62,006

29,782
48,830

13,376
14,894

39,866
38,288

34,879
38,454

2018 - June ............
July .............
Aug .............
Sept ............
Oct ..............
Nov .............
Dec .............
2019 - Jan ..............
Feb .............
Mar .............
Apr ..............
May .............
June ............

354
447
393
368
444
372
461
419
371
355
420
411
381

755
644
690
624
672
777
628
512
745
605
620
814
584

9,588
9,719
8,785
6,438
18,311
17,103
15,246
13,122
11,313
10,544
9,940
9,603
9,911

1,062
1,151
581
546
660
2,110
1,013
432
921
844
816
959
821

59,813
43,165
58,844
48,986
63,386
57,096
51,445
46,828
51,368
55,396
51,969
61,801
48,481

-2,269
4,194
7,391
5,417
5,097
5,630
6,256
9,708
7,942
6,052
6,658
4,980
34,107

2,556
2,075
2,351
2,712
2,919
1,808
1,895
2,566
2,200
2,246
2,456
2,663
1,992

119,364
67,867
131,579
69,967
97,165
120,606
71,256
96,085
98,154
100,225
104,302
146,552
67,523

4,855
5,052
4,701
4,782
5,338
4,663
6,527
3,243
4,893
4,963
4,662
4,362
3,970

3,749
3,971
3,739
1,140
3,782
3,664
3,954
3,797
3,861
3,446
3,437
-12,605
3,988

1,582
1,180
1,120
367
2,130
478
1,063
725
1,359
796
854
1,213
1,433

2,671
3,213
2,709
2,138
1,612
3,279
3,947
2,461
3,137
2,692
2,703
3,332
2,829

3,383
3,765
3,693
2,373
-2,167
3,286
4,046
4,983
4,315
2,526
3,486
3,167
3,294

Fiscal year
2019 to date................

3,634

5,957

115,093

8,576

487,770

86,430

20,745

901,868

42,621

17,324

10,051

25,992

26,936

Fiscal year
or month

Department of
State
(14)

Department
of the
Treasury,
interest on
DepartTreasury
ment of
debt
Transpor- securities
tation
(gross)
(15)
(16)

Department
of the
Treasury,
other
(17)

Department of
Veterans
Affairs
(18)

Corps of
Engineers
(19)

Other
Defense,
civil
programs
(20)

Environmental
Protection
Agency
(21)

Executive
Office
of the
President
(22)

General
InterServices
national
Admin- Assistance
istration
Program
(23)
(24)

2014 .......................
2015 .......................
2016 .......................
2017 .......................
2018 .......................

27,504
26,494
29,447
27,061
26,386

76,154
75,451
78,421
79,440
78,494

429,568
402,183
429,964
456,953
521,553

17,361
83,447
96,153
89,445
107,894

149,074
159,220
174,019
176,050
178,508

6,533
6,684
6,389
6,452
5,083

57,372
62,966
64,505
58,695
55,367

9,400
7,006
8,729
8,087
8,085

373
392
395
412
383

-765
-889
-734
-664
-590

18,609
20,976
16,242
18,925
21,628

2019 – Est1 .............
2020 – Est1 .............

28,594
25,295

81,053
86,561

406,602
451,156

274,471
275,748

204,180
217,506

6,526
5,785

60,834
62,851

7,072
7,028

423
409

-1,110
107,034

22,192
26,135

2018 - June ............
July .............
Aug .............
Sept ............
Oct ..............
Nov .............
Dec .............
2019 - Jan ..............
Feb .............
Mar .............
Apr ..............
May .............
June ............

2,374
1,726
2,852
2,830
3,000
3,268
2,038
1,668
1,412
2,729
2,221
2,720
1,485

6,903
8,816
8,844
8,287
6,400
6,466
6,353
4,377
6,555
4,812
5,091
6,400
8,522

95,594
40,559
38,357
28,981
31,648
35,371
97,203
27,811
28,717
38,938
46,552
47,829
102,800

6,381
7,224
6,928
-35,182
6,097
6,791
258
5,229
55,820
24,443
13,195
11,118
5,989

23,843
7,965
23,773
8,225
16,840
25,577
16,062
8,614
16,155
13,382
17,175
27,120
8,019

570
320
132
350
641
771
264
593
608
553
547
296
524

9,443
261
8,818
1,089
4,747
9,715
5,406
1,747
5,378
5,606
3,600
9,039
173

716
618
668
666
730
761
808
622
914
580
560
646
644

37
28
33
32
32
45
33
9
49
28
37
40
26

-124
-106
162
-303
47
139
-307
656
-939
-137
-98
132
-175

3,254
1,474
2,299
2,105
2,109
1,838
-449
832
2,095
174
1,806
8,073
3,113

Fiscal year
2019 to date................

20,541

54,976

456,869

128,940

148,944

4,797

45,411

6,265

299

-682

19,591

See footnotes at end of table

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TABLE FFO-3—On-Budget and Off-Budget Outlays by Agency, continued
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Fiscal year
or month

National
Aeronautics
and
National Office of
Space
Science Personnel
AdminisFoun- Managetration
dation
ment
(25)
(26)
(27)

Small
Business
Administration
(28)

Social
Security
Administration
(29)

Independent
agencies
(30)

Undistributed offsetting receipts
Rents
and
royalties
Employer
on the
share,
Interest
Outer
employee
received Continenretireby trust
tal Shelf
ment
funds
lands
Other
(31)
(32)
(33)
(34)

Total outlays
Onbudget (35)

Offbudget
(36)

2014 ..................

17,093

7,054

87,919

194

905,807

4,192

-79,349

-158,115

-7,473

-

2,798,103

706,095

2015 ..................

18,272

6,836

91,736

-747

944,144

13,575

-81,120

-141,791

-4,555

-30,128

2,944,526

743,097

2016 ..................

18,828

6,904

91,318

-444

976,783

13,160

-84,030

-146,118

-2,783

-8,436

3,077,747

776,354

2017 ..................

18,698

7,213

95,462

439

1,000,812

11,658

-84,970

-147,057

-3,106

-1,750

3,179,518

801,202

2018 ..................

19,756

7,167

98,803

44

1,039,903

7,770

-87,382

-150,151

-4,594

-5,896

3,259,170

848,573

2019 – Est1........

21,272

7,290

103,459

156

1,101,395

173,499

-90,545

-148,402

-5,501

-149,022

3,565,608

907,353

2020 – Est1........

23,289

7,394

-

796

1,156,311

164,014

-102,699

-143,957

-5,327

-150,636

3,714,389

962,568

2018 - June .......

2,210

648

7,144

123

97,060

-4,091

-6,464

-61,857

-93

-

344,954

46,182

July ........

1,553

650

8,482

134

83,485

3,820

-6,247

-4,465

-612

-

228,731

73,401

Aug ........

1,655

819

8,476

122

117,047

2,904

-6,216

-4,610

-480

-5,895

327,487

105,776

Sept .......

1,792

656

8,556

111

58,638

-2,090

-5,862

-266

-25

-1

167,661

56,783

Oct.........

1,787

632

9,161

100

88,652

3,357

-21,629

1,329

-1,848

-

279,122

74,061

Nov ........

1,707

502

8,108

111

92,638

4,790

-6,389

-2,538

321

-

328,697

82,166

Dec ........

1,992

601

7,746

131

88,752

-189

-6,224

-61,702

-389

-

284,536

41,588

2019 - Jan .........

878

461

9,378

90

86,767

2,893

-5,632

-130

-448

-

256,094

75,203

Feb ........

1,899

653

8,044

112

91,568

1,739

-6,114

-2,054

-789

-1,155

316,103

85,140

Mar ........

1,478

509

8,414

-640

92,049

28

-6,383

-1,395

-100

-

290,479

85,278

Apr.........

1,548

518

9,374

87

92,350

1,411

-6,131

-6,213

-713

-

299,230

76,011

May .......

1,844

589

8,388

98

97,224

3,597

-6,800

-5,159

-614

-

352,744

87,089

June ......

1,611

616

8,263

80

92,993

-2,739

-6,191

-62,360

-272

-

292,170

50,259

Fiscal year
2019 to date .......

14,744

5,081

76,876

169

822,993

14,887

-71,493

-140,222

-4,852

-1,155

2,699,175

656,795

Note: Detail may not add to total due to rounding.
1These estimates are based on the President's FY 2020 Mid-Session Reviews, released by the Office of
Management and Budget on July 12, 2019.

September 2019

FEDERAL FISCAL OPERATIONS

17

TABLE FFO-4—Summary of U.S. Government Receipts by Source and Outlays by Agency,
June 2019 and Other Periods
[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service]

General
funds
(1)

Classification
Budget receipts:
Individual income taxes............................................... 1,301,385
Corporation income taxes ...........................................
164,355
Social insurance and retirement receipts:
Employment and general retirement (off-budget) ...
Employment and general retirement (on-budget) ...
5
Unemployment insurance .......................................
10
Other retirement ......................................................
Excise taxes ................................................................
27,338
Estate and gift taxes ...................................................
12,435
Customs duties ...........................................................
33,849
Miscellaneous receipts ................................................
45,706
Total Receipts………………………………………... 1,585,083
(On-budget)……………………………………….. 1,585,083
(Off-budget)………………………………………..
Budget outlays:
Legislative branch .......................................................
3,664
Judicial branch ............................................................
6,031
Department of Agriculture ...........................................
88,570
Department of Commerce...........................................
7,041
Department of Defense-military ..................................
483,254
Department of Education ............................................
86,542
Department of Energy .................................................
22,103
Department of Health and Human Services ...............
682,482
Department of Homeland Security..............................
44,743
Department of Housing and Urban Development.......
17,593
Department of the Interior ...........................................
9,175
Department of Justice .................................................
21,119
Department of Labor ...................................................
6,440
Department of State ....................................................
20,851
Department of Transportation .....................................
7,237
Department of the Treasury:
Interest on the public debt.......................................
456,868
Other .......................................................................
130,346
Department of Veterans Affairs ..................................
151,308
Corps of Engineers .....................................................
4,935
Other defense civil programs ......................................
93,899
Environmental Protection Agency...............................
6,572
Executive Office of the President................................
292
General Services Administration ................................
139
International Assistance Program ...............................
18,175
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ........
14,774
National Science Foundation ......................................
4,988
Office of Personnel Management ...............................
9,982
Small Business Administration ...................................
173
Social Security Administration ....................................
70,080
Other independent agencies .......................................
9,772
Undistributed offsetting receipts:
Interest ....................................................................
Other .......................................................................
-4157
Total outlays ......................................................... 2,474,990
(On-budget) ..................................................... 2,474,725
(Off-budget) .....................................................
265
Surplus or deficit (-) .............................................. -889907
(On-budget) ..................................................... -889642
(Off-budget) .....................................................
-265
-No Transactions
* Less than $500,000

This fiscal year to date
Management,
consolidated,
revolving and
Trust
special funds
funds
(2)
(3)

Total
funds
(4)

General
funds
(5)

Prior fiscal year to date
Management,
consolidated,
revolving and
Trust
special funds
funds
(6)
(7)

92
896
15,381
12,153
28,522
28,522
-

697,303
215,679
33,248
3,543
42,961
1,241
1,275
995,249
297,946
697,303

1,301,477
164,355
697,303
215,683
33,258
3,543
71,195
12,435
50,472
59,134
2,608,855
1,911,551
697,303

1,305,445
161,708
*
-5
19,618
16,978
18,547
64,711
1,587,003
1,587,003
-

-24
55
26,525
1,526
4,317
-112
-1,359
3,626
-2,273
-80
578
4,874
-3,760
-897
-31
-1,464
-2,856
-64
-5,963
-63
*
-822
-141
-31
96
508
-3
*
-402
-8,459
13,301
13,991
-690
15,221
14,531
690

-4
-129
-2
7
199
*
*
215,759
150
-189
298
-1
24,257
586
47,771
56
496
-76
-42,525
-244
6
1,555
1
-2
66,386
752,913
5,522
-140,224
-64,887
867,680
210,461
657,219
127,570
87,485
40,084

3,636
5,957
115,093
8,574
487,770
86,430
20,745
901,867
42,619
17,324
10,052
25,992
26,936
20,540
54,977
456,868
128,939
148,948
4,796
45,411
6,265
298
-683
19,589
14,744
5,081
76,876
170
822,993
14,891
-140,224
-77,502
3,355,971
2,699,177
656,794
-747,116
-787,625
40,509

3,463
5,976
91,774
6,650
446,350
46,919
20,461
649,762
48,973
46,193
8,845
21,065
6,552
18,247
5,838
413,656
129,867
140,408
4,567
89,604
6,330
304
73
17,693
14,748
4,933
9,707
-319
70,024
9,369
-2,927
2,335,106
2,334,845
260
-748,103
-747,843
-260

45
942
8,591
12,116
21,694
21,694
-

2
-66
20,132
-424
3,292
-215
-1,118
1,844
4,739
-124
1,358
5,402
-1,739
152
142
-961
-2,416
-31
-5,830
-63
*
-415
-248
6
88
-655
-3
*
-8,680
-8,934
5,236
6,412
1,176
16,458
15,282
1,176

Total
funds
(8)
645,768
201,294
37,003
3,312
42,478
1,180
1,073
932,108
286,339
645,768
-2
-89
-135
58
68
*
*
199,483
127
-254
340
-5
24,993
578
46,567
18
554
-256
-38,575
-133
-15
-1,691
1
20
64,236
710,708
2,449
-140,810
-60,672
807,562
194,034
613,528
124,545
92,305
32,240

Note.—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding

September 2019

18

INTRODUCTION: Federal Debt
Treasury securities (i.e., public debt securities) comprise
most of the Federal debt, with securities issued by other
Federal agencies accounting for the rest. Tables in this
section of the “Treasury Bulletin” reflect the total. Further
detailed information is published in the “Monthly Statement
of the Public Debt of the United States.” Likewise,
information on agency securities and on investments of
Federal Government accounts in Federal securities is
published in the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts
and Outlays of the United States Government.”
Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service compiles data in
the “Treasury Bulletin” tables FD-2 and FD-6 from the
“Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United
States.”
 Table FD-1 summarizes the Federal debt by listing
public debt and agency securities held by the public,
including the Federal Reserve. It also includes debt held by
Federal agencies, largely by the Social Security and other
Federal retirement trust funds. The net unamortized
premium and discount also are listed by total Federal
securities, securities held by Government accounts and
securities held by the public. The difference between the
outstanding face value of the Federal debt and the net
unamortized premium and discount is classified as the
accrual amount. (For greater detail on holdings of Federal
securities by particular classes of investors, see the
ownership tables, OFS-1 and OFS-2.)
 Table FD-2 categorizes by type, that is, marketable
and nonmarketable, the total public debt securities
outstanding that are held by the public.
 In table FD-3, nonmarketable Treasury securities
held by U.S. Government accounts are summarized by
issues to particular funds within Government. Many of the
funds invest in par value special series nonmarketables at
interest rates determined by law. Others invest in marketbased special Treasury securities whose terms mirror those
of marketable securities.
 Table FD-4 presents interest-bearing securities
issued by Government agencies. Federal agency borrowing

September 2019

has declined in recent years, in part because the Federal
Financing Bank has provided financing to other Federal
agencies. (Federal agency borrowing from Treasury is
presented in the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts
and Outlays of the United States Government.”)
 Table FD-5 illustrates the average length of
marketable interest-bearing public debt held by private
investors and the maturity distribution of that debt.
In March 1971, Congress enacted a limited exception to
the amount of bonds with rates greater than 4-1/4 percent
that could be held by the public. This permitted Treasury to
offer securities maturing in more than 7 years at current
market interest rates for the first time since 1965. In March
1976, the definition of a bond was changed to include those
securities longer than 10 years to maturity. This exception
has expanded since 1971, authorizing Treasury to continue
to issue long-term securities. The ceiling on Treasury bonds
was repealed on November 10, 1988.
The volume of privately held Treasury marketable
securities by maturity class reflects the remaining period to
maturity of Treasury bills, notes and bonds. The average
length is comprised of an average of remaining periods to
maturity, weighted by the amount of each security held by
private investors. In other words, computations of average
length exclude Government accounts and the FRBs.
 In table FD-6, the debt ceiling is compared with the
outstanding debt subject to limitation by law. The other debt
category includes Federal debt Congress has designated as
being subject to the debt ceiling.
 Table FD-7 details Treasury holdings of securities
issued by Government corporations and other agencies.
Certain Federal agencies are authorized to borrow money
from the Treasury, largely to finance direct loan programs.
In addition, agencies such as the Bonneville Power
Administration are authorized to borrow from the Treasury
to finance capital projects. Treasury, in turn, finances these
loans by selling Treasury securities to the public.

FEDERAL DEBT

19

TABLE FD-1—Summary of Federal Debt
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

End of fiscal
year or month

Total
(1)

Amount outstanding
Public debt
securities
(2)

Agency
securities
(3)

Total
(4)

Securities held by
Government accounts
Agency
Public debt
securities
Total
securities
(6)
(7)
(5)

The public
Public debt
securities
(8)

Agency
securities
(9)

2014 ...............................
2015 ...............................
2016 ...............................
2017 ...............................
2018 ...............................

17,847,931
18,174,718
19,597,812
20,269,269
21,538,880

17,824,071
18,150,618
19,573,445
20,244,900
21,516,058

23,860
24,100
24,367
24,369
22,822

5,039,265
5,026,867
5,395,699
5,563,074
5,737,252

5,039,262
5,026,862
5,395,695
5,563,073
5,737,252

3
5
4
1
0

12,808,666
13,147,851
14,202,113
14,706,195
15,801,628

12,784,809
13,123,756
14,177,750
14,681,827
15,778,806

23,857
24,095
24,363
24,368
22,822

2018 - June ....................
July.....................
Aug.....................
Sept....................
Oct .....................
Nov.....................
Dec.....................
2019 - Jan ......................
Feb .....................
Mar .....................
Apr .....................
May ....................
June ...................

21,218,581
21,336,499
21,481,902
21,538,880
21,725,216
21,873,089
21,997,036
22,005,220
22,138,026
22,050,081
22,049,873
22,048,574
22,045,280

21,195,070
21,313,061
21,458,850
21,516,058
21,702,370
21,850,094
21,974,096
21,982,423
22,115,526
22,027,880
22,027,668
22,026,424
22,023,283

23,511
23,438
23,052
22,822
22,846
22,995
22,940
22,797
22,500
22,201
22,205
22,150
21,997

5,711,522
5,726,291
5,655,997
5,737,252
5,840,466
5,786,563
5,853,354
5,862,428
5,845,051
5,804,029
5,816,978
5,806,506
5,818,564

5,711,522
5,726,291
5,655,997
5,737,252
5,840,466
5,786,563
5,853,354
5,862,428
5,845,051
5,804,029
5,816,978
5,806,506
5,818,564

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

15,507,059
15,610,208
15,825,905
15,801,628
15,884,750
16,086,526
16,143,682
16,142,792
16,292,975
16,246,052
16,232,895
16,242,068
16,226,716

15,483,548
15,586,770
15,802,853
15,778,806
15,861,904
16,063,531
16,120,742
16,119,995
16,270,475
16,223,851
16,210,690
16,219,918
16,204,719

23,511
23,438
23,052
22,822
22,846
22,995
22,940
22,797
22,500
22,201
22,205
22,150
21,997

Federal debt securities
Net
unamortized
Amount
Accrual
premium
outstanding
amount
and discount
face value
(12)
(11)
(10)

Securities held by Government accounts
Net
unamortized
Amount
Accrual
premium
outstanding
amount
and discount
face value
(15)
(14)
(13)

Securities held by the public
Net
unamortized
Amount
Accrual
premium
outstanding
amount
and discount
face value
(18)
(17)
(16)

2014 ...............................
2015 ...............................
2016 ...............................
2017 ...............................
2018 ...............................

17,847,931
18,174,718
19,597,812
20,269,269
21,538,880

55,907
56,852
60,393
65,378
78,187

17,792,023
18,117,866
19,537,417
20,203,891
21,460,692

5,039,265
5,026,867
5,395,699
5,563,074
5,737,252

26,678
25,603
26,706
25,909
27,744

5,012,587
5,001,264
5,368,993
5,537,165
5,709,509

12,808,666
13,147,851
14,202,113
14,706,195
15,801,628

29,229
31,249
33,687
39,469
50,443

12,779,436
13,116,602
14,168,425
14,666,725
15,751,183

2018 - June ....................
July .....................
Aug .....................
Sept ....................
Oct......................
Nov .....................
Dec .....................
2019 - Jan ......................
Feb .....................
Mar .....................
Apr .....................
May ....................
June ...................

21,218,581
21,336,499
21,481,902
21,538,880
21,725,216
21,873,089
21,997,036
22,005,220
22,138,026
22,050,081
22,049,873
22,048,574
22,045,280

76,808
76,646
78,100
78,187
82,068
83,956
82,484
81,028
81,940
80,387
79,194
79,389
76,241

21,141,772
21,259,853
21,403,801
21,460,692
21,643,147
21,789,133
21,914,550
21,924,191
22,056,085
21,969,694
21,970,679
21,969,184
21,969,038

5,711,522
5,726,291
5,655,997
5,737,252
5,840,466
5,786,563
5,853,354
5,862,428
5,845,051
5,804,029
5,816,978
5,806,506
5,818,564

27,779
27,797
27,815
27,744
29,399
29,647
29,616
29,152
29,494
28,933
28,703
29,223
29,089

5,683,742
5,698,494
5,628,182
5,709,509
5,811,067
5,756,916
5,823,738
5,833,276
5,815,557
5,775,097
5,788,276
5,777,284
5,789,475

15,507,059
15,610,208
15,825,905
15,801,628
15,884,750
16,086,526
16,143,682
16,142,792
16,292,975
16,246,052
16,232,895
16,242,068
16,226,716

49,029
48,849
50,285
50,443
52,669
54,309
52,868
51,876
52,446
51,454
50,491
50,166
47,152

15,458,030
15,561,359
15,775,619
15,751,183
15,832,080
16,032,217
16,090,812
16,090,915
16,240,529
16,194,597
16,182,403
16,191,900
16,179,563

End of fiscal
year or month

September 2019

20

FEDERAL DEBT

TABLE FD-2—Debt Held by the Public
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”]

Marketable
Treasury
inflationprotected
securities
(6)

Floating
rate
notes
(7)

Nonmarketable
Total
(8)

Total public
debt securities
outstanding
(1)

Total
(2)

Bills
(3)

Notes
(4)

Bonds
(5)

2014 ..........................
2015 ..........................
2016 ..........................
2017 ..........................
2018 ..........................

12,784,971
13,123,847
14,173,424
14,673,429
15,761,155

12,271,552
12,831,867
13,638,303
14,175,677
15,250,078

1,409,628
1,355,231
1,644,759
1,799,570
2,239,473

8,160,196
8,366,026
8,624,253
8,798,940
9,150,301

1,534,069
1,688,208
1,825,338
1,948,414
2,114,982

1,044,676
1,135,363
1,209,814
1,286,124
1,376,180

122,985
287,039
334,139
342,630
369,142

513,419
291,980
535,120
497,752
511,077

2018 - June...............
July ................
Aug ................
Sept ...............
Oct.................
Nov ................
Dec ................
2019 - Jan .................
Feb ................
Mar ................
Apr ................
May ...............
June ..............

15,466,564
15,569,493
15,785,389
15,761,155
15,843,329
16,044,318
16,101,667
16,101,227
16,250,898
16,204,392
16,192,789
16,202,283
16,188,422

14,955,425
15,057,714
15,273,684
15,250,078
15,328,902
15,531,248
15,589,671
15,591,458
15,740,600
15,910,365
15,853,656
15,914,391
15,906,333

2,157,412
2,205,355
2,340,414
2,239,473
2,257,391
2,388,456
2,339,374
2,298,360
2,395,382
2,479,407
2,383,330
2,353,292
2,250,354

9,028,003
9,090,754
9,116,174
9,150,301
9,213,591
9,236,034
9,292,753
9,351,632
9,371,585
9,410,162
9,485,849
9,511,363
9,548,047

2,066,743
2,080,147
2,099,970
2,114,982
2,129,633
2,145,313
2,161,472
2,177,715
2,187,909
2,203,850
2,222,584
2,247,949
2,266,020

1,345,473
1,347,525
1,364,984
1,376,180
1,382,053
1,395,634
1,412,256
1,403,461
1,407,439
1,420,671
1,389,990
1,409,990
1,432,115

357,794
333,932
352,142
369,142
346,235
365,811
383,815
360,290
378,285
396,275
371,903
391,797
409,798

511,139
511,780
511,705
511,077
514,427
513,070
511,995
509,769
510,298
294,027
339,133
287,892
282,089

End of fiscal
year or month

Nonmarketable, continued
End of fiscal
year or month

U.S. savings
securities
(9)

Depositary
compensation
securities
(10)

Foreign
series
(11)

Government
account series
(12)

State and local
government
series
(13)

Domestic
series
(14)

Other
(15)

2014 ..........................
2015 ..........................
2016 ..........................
2017 ..........................
2018 ..........................

176,762
172,826
167,524
161,705
156,809

-

2,986
264
264
264
264

196,520
9,138
226,349
223,787
250,680

105,668
78,115
109,211
80,359
71,753

29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995

1,489
1,642
1,777
1,641
1,575

2018 - June ..............
July ................
Aug ................
Sept ...............
Oct.................
Nov ................
Dec ................
2019 - Jan .................
Feb ................
Mar ................
Apr ................
May ...............
June ..............

157,866
157,527
157,088
156,809
156,484
156,225
155,795
155,254
154,933
154,533
154,146
153,752
153,407

-

264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264
264

242,251
246,257
250,565
250,680
254,063
255,971
258,083
261,183
262,304
45,624
94,942
49,279
48,751

79,115
76,082
72,124
71,753
72,050
68,985
66,197
61,438
61,179
61,975
58,030
52,845
47,865

29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995
29,995

1,648
1,654
1,669
1,575
1,571
1,630
1,660
1,634
1,623
1,635
1,755
1,756
1,806

September 2019

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21

TABLE FD-3—Government Account Series
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”]

Deposit
Insurance
Fund
(3)

Employees
Life
Insurance
Fund
(4)

Exchange
Stabilization
Fund
(5)

Federal
Disability
Insurance
Trust Fund
(6)

Federal
employees
retirement
funds
(7)

Federal
Hospital
Insurance
Trust Fund
(8)

Federal
Housing
Administration
(9)

End of fiscal
year or month

Total
(1)

Airport and
Airway
Trust Fund
(2)

2014 ..................
2015 ..................
2016 ..................
2017 ..................
2018 ..................

5,212,466
5,013,530
5,604,069
5,771,144
5,977,617

12,759
12,716
13,400
13,404
14,212

48,750
60,096
71,524
78,486
94,431

43,213
43,958
45,167
45,680
46,616

22,649
20,773
22,680
22,090
22,311

70,113
41,638
45,880
69,669
93,401

861,349
737,096
874,141
912,438
931,838

202,207
195,458
192,209
197,835
202,805

36,441
30,879
26,975

2018 - June ......
July ........
Aug ........
Sept .......
Oct.........
Nov ........
Dec ........
2019 - Jan .........
Feb ........
Mar ........
Apr ........
May .......
June ......

5,943,775
5,962,236
5,895,873
5,977,617
6,084,109
6,032,885
6,101,877
6,113,990
6,097,856
5,840,580
5,902,566
5,846,560
5,859,045

14,640
14,927
14,380
14,212
14,796
15,036
15,117
14,817
15,219
15,220
15,407
15,620
16,149

91,530
93,173
93,285
96,341
96,608
96,736
99,339
99,302
99,553
101,002
101,662
101,776
101,584

46,215
46,256
46,574
46,616
46,655
46,742
46,805
46,842
47,530
47,535
47,535
47,555
47,578

22,241
22,278
22,277
22,311
22,355
22,353
22,399
22,445
22,435
22,480
22,528
22,519
22,558

89,410
89,856
84,852
93,401
93,338
94,351
97,201
99,035
97,494
96,856
99,655
98,158
101,029

901,488
897,266
892,972
931,838
927,143
923,394
932,693
927,196
923,064
894,471
894,422
887,071
815,093

200,132
203,664
188,915
202,805
199,614
188,324
200,116
205,557
199,611
195,317
208,041
186,892
206,307

25,170
25,752
26,340
26,975
27,501
28,098
28,583
26,729
29,091
29,396
47,720
48,299

End of fiscal
year or month

Federal
Old-Age and
Survivors
Insurance
Trust Fund
(10)

Federal
Savings
and Loan
Corporation,
Resolution
Fund
(11)

Federal
Supplementary
Medical
Insurance
Trust Fund
(12)

Highway
Trust
Fund
(13)

National
Service Life
Insurance
Fund
(14)

Postal
Service
Fund
(15)

Railroad
Retirement
Account
(16)

Unemployment
Trust
Fund
(17)

Other
(18)

2014 .....................
2015 .....................
2016 .....................
2017 .....................
2018 .....................

2,712,805
2,766,649
2,796,712
2,820,200
2,801,254

827
828
828
839
852

68,391
66,128
63,336
70,589
98,197

10,696
7,667
64,629
52,332
41,212

5,611
4,903
4,246
3,604
3,015

5,450
7,163
8,527
10,965
10,493

803
874
685
419
612

35,919
44,368
53,776
60,711
72,576

1,110,924
1,003,215
1,309,888
1,381,004
1,516,817

2018 - June .........
July ...........
Aug ...........
Sept ..........
Oct............
Nov ...........
Dec ...........
2019 - Jan ............
Feb ...........
Mar ...........
Apr ...........
May ..........
June .........

2,832,803
2,825,363
2,791,813
2,801,254
2,789,345
2,772,982
2,797,974
2,806,515
2,794,748
2,789,289
2,805,586
2,794,787
2,833,813

848
850
851
852
854
856
857
859
861
862
864
866
868

81,579
101,279
89,400
98,197
102,342
84,762
104,159
107,463
110,773
110,133
112,260
85,660
105,918

48,324
47,111
42,248
41,212
39,405
37,976
37,649
37,807
37,736
37,778
38,418
37,047
35,824

3,178
3,122
3,063
3,015
2,949
2,904
2,901
2,850
2,796
2,731
2,670
2,611
2,612

11,766
11,535
12,346
10,493
10,290
9,812
9,918
10,608
8,461
8,830
9,643
8,588
8,676

592
776
750
612
676
657
387
583
676
666
754
738
537

72,857
70,869
74,231
72,576
71,703
73,577
72,164
70,038
70,989
68,357
69,311
84,580
83,776

1,501,002
1,508,159
1,511,576
1,514,907
1,638,535
1,634,325
1,633,615
1,635,344
1,636,819
1,419,657
1,473,810
1,424,372
1,428,424

Note—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

September 2019

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TABLE FD-4—Interest-Bearing Securities Issued by Government Agencies
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Total
outstanding
(1)

Department of
Housing and
Urban
Development
Federal Housing
Administration
(2)

Architect
of the
Capitol
(3)

Other
independent
Tennessee
Valley Authority
(4)

National Archives
and Records
Administration
(5)

Other/Federal
Communications
Commission
(6)

2014 ............................

23,860

19

105

23,620

116

*

2015 ............................

24,100

19

107

23,878

96

*

2016 ............................

24,367

19

98

24,175

75

*

2017 ............................

24,369

19

89

24,209

52

*

2018 ............................

22,822

19

80

22,696

27

*

2018 - June .................

23,511

19

87

23,366

40

*

July ..................

23,438

19

87

23,292

40

*

Aug ..................

23,052

19

79

22,927

27

*

Sept .................

22,822

19

80

22,696

27

*

Oct...................

22,846

19

80

22,720

27

*

Nov ..................

22,995

19

81

22,869

27

*

Dec ..................

22,940

19

81

22,813

27

*

2019 - Jan ...................

22,797

19

82

22,670

27

*

Feb ..................

22,500

19

74

22,394

14

*

Mar ..................

22,201

19

75

22,094

14

*

Apr...................

22,205

19

75

22,097

14

*

May .................

22,150

19

76

22,042

14

*

June ................

21,997

19

75

21,890

14

*

End of fiscal
year or month

Note—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

September 2019

* Less than $500,000.

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TABLE FD-5—Maturity Distribution and Average Length of Marketable
Interest-Bearing Public Debt Held by Private Investors
[In millions of dollars. Source: Office of Debt Management, Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance]

Amount
outstanding
privately held
(1)

Within
1 year
(2)

1-5
years
(3)

2014 ...............................

9,828,787

2,931,581

4,216,746

2015 ...............................

10,379,413

2,922,734

2016 ...............................

11,184,046

2017 ...............................

Maturity classes
5-10
years
(4)

Average length
(months)
(7)

10-20
years
(5)

20 years
or more
(6)

1,813,563

223,276

643,620

56

4,356,051

2,084,293

184,306

832,030

61

3,321,283

4,478,458

2,219,048

167,666

997,590

63

11,642,870

3,263,065

4,746,209

2,320,739

151,686

1,161,170

66

2018 ...............................

12,880,947

3,794,461

5,181,488

2,444,652

121,319

1,339,027

65

2018 - June ....................

12,529,613

3,670,219

5,012,734

2,427,862

127,650

1,291,149

65

July .....................

12,738,042

3,730,067

5,121,739

2,452,655

127,815

1,305,766

65

Aug .....................

12,978,235

3,888,670

5,205,685

2,438,557

121,314

1,324,010

64

Sept ....................

12,880,947

3,794,461

5,181,488

2,444,652

121,319

1,339,027

65

Oct ......................

13,077,091

3,818,212

5,276,404

2,501,914

121,341

1,359,221

65

Nov .....................

13,309,195

3,969,497

5,352,897

2,495,378

113,027

1,378,396

64

Dec .....................

13,385,360

3,927,279

5,426,079

2,524,238

113,097

1,394,666

64

2019 - Jan ......................

13,403,618

3,899,283

5,461,802

2,535,614

96,751

1,410,168

65

Feb .....................

13,583,882

4,013,313

5,521,894

2,521,411

103,143

1,424,121

65

Mar .....................

13,681,505

4,108,702

5,500,058

2,529,183

103,183

1,440,379

64

Apr ......................

13,746,594

4,045,610

5,549,483

2,608,424

86,014

1,457,062

65

May.....................

13,821,207

4,037,791

5,631,335

2,589,055

97,685

1,465,341

65

June....................

13,739,980

3,948,429

5,623,904

2,587,748

97,719

1,482,180

66

End of fiscal
year or month

Note—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

September 2019

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TABLE FD-6—Debt Subject to Statutory Limit
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States”]

End of fiscal
year or month

Statutory debt
limit
(1)

Debt subject to limit

Securities outstanding

Total
(2)

Public debt
(3)

Other debt 1
(4)

Public debt
(5)

Other debt
(6)

Securities
not subject
to limit
(7)

2014 .......................................

-

17,781,107

17,781,107

-

17,824,071

-

42,964

2015 .......................................

18,113,000

18,112,975

18,112,975

-

18,150,618

-

37,643

2016 .......................................

-

19,538,456

19,538,456

-

19,573,445

-

34,989

2017 .......................................

19,808,772

20,208,638

20,208,638

-

20,244,900

-

36,262

2018 .......................................

-

21,474,848

21,474,848

-

21,516,058

-

41,209

2018 – June2 ..........................

-

21,155,086

21,155,086

-

21,195,070

-

39,983

July2 ............................

-

21,272,706

21,272,706

-

21,313,061

-

40,354

Aug2 ............................

-

21,417,956

21,417,956

-

21,458,850

-

40,893

Sept2 ...........................

-

21,474,848

21,474,848

-

21,516,058

-

41,209

Oct2.............................

-

21,661,035

21,661,035

-

21,702,370

-

41,335

Nov2 ............................

-

21,808,202

21,808,202

-

21,850,094

-

41,892

Dec2 ............................

-

21,933,738

21,933,738

-

21,974,096

-

40,358

2019 – Jan2 ............................

-

21,941,179

21,941,179

-

21,982,423

-

41,244

Feb2 ............................

-

22,074,156

22,074,156

-

22,115,526

-

41,371

Mar1 ............................

21,987,706

21,987,681

21,987,681

-

22,027,880

-

40,200

Apr1.............................

21,987,706

21,987,681

21,987,681

-

22,027,668

-

39,988

May1 ...........................

21,987,706

21,987,681

21,987,681

-

22,026,424

-

38,743

June1 ..........................

21,987,706

21,987,681

21,987,681

-

22,023,283

-

35,602

(1) Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3101(b). By the Bipartisan Budget Act, 2018, Public Law 115-123, the
Statutory Debt Limit was suspended through March 1, 2019. The Statutory Debt Limit in 31
U.S.C. 3101(b) was permanently increased effective March 2, 2019, to $21,987,705,611,407.70.

September 2019

(2) Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3101(b). By the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 and
Bipartisan Budget Act, 2018, Public Law 115-119, the Statutory Debt Limit was
suspended through March 1, 2019.

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25

TABLE FD-7—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued
by Government Corporations and Other Agencies
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

End of fiscal
year or month

Total
(1)

Rural Utilities
Service
(3)

Farm-Service
Agency
(2)

Department of Agriculture
Rural Business
Rural Housing
and Cooperative
and Community
Development
Development
Service
Service
(5)
(4)

Foreign
Agricultural
Service
(6)

2014 .......................................
2015 .......................................
2016 .......................................
2017 .......................................
2018 .......................................

1,223,498
1,306,402
1,389,173
1,442,633
1,512,469

19,064
19,261
25,620
19,810
23,005

26,203
26,261
24,585
21,940
19,325

22,126
23,057
24,130
26,992
26,797

575
626
654
645
583

748
688
636
601
453

2018 - June ...........................
July .............................
Aug .............................
Sept ............................
Oct..............................
Nov .............................
Dec .............................
2019 - Jan ..............................
Feb .............................
Mar .............................
Apr .............................
May ............................
June ...........................

1,566,178
1,555,879
1,570,955
1,512,469
1,569,160
1,569,709
1,595,896
1,603,858
1,605,765
1,606,124
1,621,331
1,634,029
1,632,530

22,359
22,093
23,268
23,005
28,758
27,494
30,276
36,297
33,357
31,653
32,077
32,207
33,759

21,139
21,139
19,225
19,325
19,433
19,639
19,639
19,658
20,016
19,900
19,959
20,041
20,098

27,018
27,018
26,193
26,797
26,947
27,302
27,302
27,359
27,920
27,913
28,216
28,215
28,450

580
580
519
583
586
591
591
591
611
566
571
575
578

601
601
453
453
453
453
453
453
453
453
453
453
453

End of fiscal
year or month

Department of
Education
(7)

Department
of Energy
Bonneville Power
Administration
(8)

Department of Housing
and Urban Development
Other Housing
Federal Housing
programs
Administration
(10)
(9)

Department
of the Treasury
Federal
Financing Bank
(11)

2014 .......................................
2015 .......................................
2016 .......................................
2017 .......................................
2018 .......................................

965,394
1,050,374
1,126,370
1,178,495
1,258,499

4,242
4,649
4,759
5,009
5,531

27,528
26,921
30,318
27,954
24,709

133
127
128
128
134

56,528
58,050
59,043
61,270
61,584

2018 - June ...........................
July.............................
Aug.............................
Sept............................
Oct .............................
Nov.............................
Dec.............................
2019 - Jan ..............................
Feb .............................
Mar .............................
Apr .............................
May ............................
June ...........................

1,302,135
1,291,360
1,312,682
1,258,499
1,308,416
1,307,269
1,329,918
1,330,500
1,335,506
1,335,506
1,349,299
1,351,646
1,351,664

5,086
5,086
5,225
5,531
5,508
5,478
5,398
5,374
5,299
5,299
5,299
5,299
5,294

27,979
27,979
27,979
24,709
24,709
24,734
24,734
24,734
24,734
24,734
24,734
33,334
33,334

128
128
128
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
134
135

62,971
63,030
63,241
61,584
61,640
62,219
62,355
62,883
61,474
62,880
62,961
63,545
63,587

September 2019

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TABLE FD-7—Treasury Holdings of Securities Issued by Government
Corporations and Other Agencies, continued
[In millions of dollars. Source: “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government”]

Export-Import
Bank of the
United States
(12)

Railroad
Retirement
Board
(13)

Small Business
Administration
(14)

Other
(15)

2014 ......................................

21,634

3,532

7,757

68,034

2015 ......................................

22,725

3,498

7,176

62,989

2016 ......................................

25,022

3,577

8,020

56,308

2017 ......................................

24,645

3,712

7,693

63,739

2018 ......................................

20,213

3,725

11,212

56,699

2018 - June ...........................

24,818

2,715

11,407

57,239

July ............................

24,818

3,088

11,407

57,552

Aug ............................

20,208

3,361

11,934

56,537

Sept ...........................

20,213

3,725

11,212

56,699

Oct.............................

20,223

4,093

11,212

57,048

Nov ............................

20,223

4,417

12,604

57,152

Dec ............................

20,229

4,799

12,604

57,464

2019 - Jan .............................

20,250

5,182

12,604

57,839

Feb ............................

20,257

5,468

12,604

57,932

Mar ............................

20,257

5,821

12,700

58,308

Apr ............................

20,259

6,178

12,369

58,822

May ...........................

20,259

6,502

12,500

59,319

June ..........................

20,259

2,802

12,500

59,617

End of fiscal
year or month

Note—Detail may not add to totals due to rounding.

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INTRODUCTION: Bureau of the Fiscal Service Operations
Chapter 31 of Title 31 of the United States Code allows
the Secretary of Treasury to borrow money by issuing
Treasury securities. The Secretary determines the terms and
conditions of issue, conversion, maturity, payment, and
interest rate. New issues of Treasury notes mature in 2 to 10
years. Bonds mature in more than 10 years from the issue
date. Each outstanding marketable security is listed in the
“Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States.”
The information in this section of the “Treasury Bulletin”
pertains only to marketable Treasury securities.
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a new bureau within
the Treasury Department, formed on October 7, 2012, from
the consolidation of the Financial Management Service and
the Bureau of the Public Debt. Our mission is to promote the
financial integrity and operational efficiency of the U.S.
government through exceptional accounting, financing,
collections, payments, and shared services. As one bureau,
the organization is better positioned to help transform
financial management and the delivery of shared services in
the federal government. The bureau will be a valued partner
for agencies as they work to strengthen their own financial
management or as they look for a quality service provider
who can allow them to focus on their missions.

Table PDO-1 presents the results of weekly auctions of 4-,
13-, and 26-week bills. Treasury bills mature each Thursday.
Issues of 4- and 13-week bills are reopenings of 26-week
bills. High rates on accepted tenders and the dollar value of
total bids are presented, with the dollar value of awards made
on both competitive and noncompetitive basis.
To encourage the participation of individuals and smaller
institutions, Treasury accepts noncompetitive tenders of up to
$5 million in each auction of securities.
Table PDO-2 lists the results of auctions of marketable
securities, other than weekly bills, in chronological order over
the past 2 years. Issues of cash management bills also are
presented.
Note: On July 31, 2013, Treasury published amendments
to its marketable securities auction rules to accommodate the
auction and issuance of Floating Rate Notes (FRNs). An FRN
is a security that has an interest payment that can change over
time. Treasury FRNs will be indexed to the most recent 13week Treasury bill auction High Rate, which is the highest
accepted discount rate in a Treasury bill auction. FRNs will
pay interest quarterly.

TREASURY FINANCING: APRIL-JUNE
[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations]

APRIL
Auction of 2-Year Notes
On March 21, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $40,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was
to refund $71,457 million of securities maturing March
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $41,543
million.
The 2-year notes of Series J-2021 were dated
March 31 and issued April 1. They are due March 31,
2021, with interest payable on September 30 and
March 31 until maturity. Treasury set an interest rate
of 2-1/4 percent after determining which tenders were
accepted on a yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon Eastern Time (ET) for noncompetitive
tenders and before 1:00 p.m. ET for competitive
tenders on March 26. Tenders totaled $104,145
million; Treasury accepted $40,000 million. All
noncompetitive and successful competitive bidders
were allotted securities at the high yield of 2.261
percent with an equivalent price of $99.978568.
Treasury accepted in full all competitive tenders at
yields lower than 2.261 percent. Tenders at the high
yield were allotted 39.90 percent. The median yield

was 2.230 percent, and the low yield was 1.888
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $284 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $39,516 million. Accrued interest of $0.06148
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from March 31
to April 1. The minimum par amount required for
Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal
Securities (STRIPS) of notes of Series J-2021 is $100.
Auction of 5-Year Notes
On March 21, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $41,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was
to refund $71,457 million of securities maturing March
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $41,543
million.
The 5-year notes of Series J-2024 were dated
March 31 and issued April 1. They are due March 31,
2024, with interest payable on September 30 and
March 31 until maturity. Treasury set an interest rate
of 2-1/8 percent after determining which tenders were
accepted on a yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on March 27.
Tenders totaled $96,290 million; Treasury accepted
$41,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
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competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.172 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.778500. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.172 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 76.16 percent. The median
yield was 2.125 percent, and the low yield was 2.050
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $32 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $40,968 million. Accrued interest of $0.05806
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from March 31
to April 1. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series J-2024 is $100.
Auction of 7-Year Notes
On March 21, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $32,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was
to refund $71,457 million of securities maturing March
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $41,543
million.
The 7-year notes of Series J-2026 were dated
March 31 and issued April 1. They are due March 31,
2026, with interest payable on September 30 and
March 31 until maturity. Treasury set an interest rate
of 2-1/4 percent after determining which tenders were
accepted on a yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on March 28.
Tenders totaled $81,397 million; Treasury accepted
$32,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.281 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.800487. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.281 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 62.72 percent. The median
yield was 2.241 percent, and the low yield was 2.150
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $8 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $31,992 million. Accrued interest of $0.06148
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from March 31
to April 1. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series J-2026 is $100.
Auction of 3-Year Notes
On April 4, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $38,000 million of 3-year notes. The issue was
to refund $77,805 million of securities maturing April
15 and to raise new cash of approximately $195
million.
The 3-year notes of Series AL-2022 were dated
and issued April 15. They are due April 15, 2022, with
interest payable on October 15 and April 15 until
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after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 9.
Tenders totaled $94,535 million; Treasury accepted
$38,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.301 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.852977. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.301 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 21.36 percent. The median
yield was 2.275 percent, and the low yield was 1.988
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $83 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $37,817 million.
In addition to the $38,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted $5
million from Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs) for their
own accounts. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series AL-2022 is $100.
Auction of 9-Year 10-Month 2-5/8 Percent
Notes
On April 4, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $24,000 million of 9-year 10-month 2-5/8
percent notes. The issue was to refund $77,805 million
of securities maturing April 15 and to raise new cash
of approximately $195 million.
The 9-year 10-month 2-5/8 percent notes of Series
B-2029 were dated February 15 and issued April 15.
They are due February 15, 2029, with interest payable
on August 15 and February 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 10.
Tenders totaled $61,289 million; Treasury accepted
$24,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.466 percent with an equivalent price of
$101.377878. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.466 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 93.21 percent. The median
yield was 2.425 percent, and the low yield was 2.088
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $18 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $23,982 million. Accrued interest of $4.27831
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from February
15 to April 15.
In addition to the $24,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted $3
million from FRBs for their own accounts. The

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minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series B-2029 is $100.
Auction of 29-Year 10-Month 3 Percent Bonds
On April 4, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $16,000 million of 29-year 10-month 3 percent
bonds. The issue was to refund $77,805 million of
securities maturing April 15 and to raise new cash of
approximately $195 million.
The 29-year 10-month 3 percent bonds of February
2049 were dated February 15 and issued April 15.
They are due February 15, 2049, with interest payable
on August 15 and February 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the bonds before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 11.
Tenders totaled $36,018 million; Treasury accepted
$16,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.930 percent with an equivalent price of
$101.381292. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.930 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 59.85 percent. The median
yield was 2.870 percent, and the low yield was 2.488
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $3 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $15,997 million. Accrued interest of $4.88950
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from February
15 to April 15.
In addition to the $16,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted $2
million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of bonds of
February 2049 is $100.
Auction of 5-Year Treasury Inflation Protected
Security (TIPS)
On April 11, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $17,000 million of 5-year TIPS. The issue was
to refund $107,208 million of securities maturing April
30 and to raise new cash of approximately $42,792
million.
The 5-year TIPS of Series X-2024 were dated
April 15 and issued April 30. They are due April 15,
2024, with interest payable on October 15 and April 15
until maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 0-1/2
percent after determining which tenders were accepted
on a yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before
11:00 a.m. ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
11:30 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 18.
Tenders totaled $42,438 million; Treasury accepted
$17,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful

competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 0.515 percent with an equivalent adjusted
price of $100.137446. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.515 percent.
Tenders at the high yield were allotted 34.35 percent.
The median yield was 0.470 percent, and the low yield
was 0.405 percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $68
million. Competitive tenders accepted from private
investors totaled $16,932 million. Adjusted accrued
interest of $0.20535 per $1,000 must be paid for the
period from April 15 to April 30. Both the unadjusted
price of $99.926601 and the unadjusted accrued
interest of $0.20492 were adjusted by an index ratio of
1.00211, for the period from April 15 to April 30.
In addition to the $17,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$217 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of TIPS of
Series X-2024 is $100.
Auction of 2-Year Notes
On April 18, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $40,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was
to refund $107,208 million of securities maturing April
30 and to raise new cash of approximately $42,792
million.
The 2-year notes of Series K-2021 were dated and
issued April 30. They are due April 30, 2021, with
interest payable on October 31 and April 30 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-1/4 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 23.
Tenders totaled $100,537 million; Treasury accepted
$40,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.355 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.796039. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.355 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 47.66 percent. The median
yield was 2.324 percent, and the low yield was 2.250
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $220 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $39,674 million.
In addition to the $40,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$511 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series K-2021 is $100.

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Auction of 52-Week Bills
On April 18, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $26,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills.
They were issued April 25 and will mature April 23,
2020. The issue was to refund $107,010 million of all
maturing bills and to pay down approximately $3,010
million. Treasury auctioned the bills on April 23.
Tenders totaled $89,442 million; Treasury accepted
$26,000 million, including $585 million of
noncompetitive tenders from the public. The high bank
discount rate was 2.360 percent.
Auction of 2-Year Floating Rate Notes (FRNs)
On April 18, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $20,000 million of 2-year FRNs. The issue
was to refund $107,208 million of securities maturing
April 30 and to raise new cash of approximately
$42,792 million.
The 2-year FRNs of Series BA-2021 were dated
and issued April 30. They are due April 30, 2021, with
interest payable on July 31, October 31, January 31,
and April 30 until maturity. Treasury set a spread of
0.139 percent after determining which tenders were
accepted on a discount margin basis.
Treasury received tenders for the FRNs before
11:00 a.m. ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
11:30 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 24.
Tenders totaled $53,696 million; Treasury accepted
$20,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
discount margin of 0.139 percent with an equivalent
price of $100.000000. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at discount margins lower than
0.139 percent. Tenders at the high discount margin
were allotted 84.64 percent. The median discount
margin was 0.120 percent, and the low discount
margin was 0.090 percent. Noncompetitive tenders
totaled $27 million. Competitive tenders accepted from
private investors totaled $19,973 million.
In addition to the $20,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$255 million from FRBs for their own accounts.
Auction of 5-Year Notes
On April 18, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $41,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was
to refund $107,208 million of securities maturing April
30 and to raise new cash of approximately $42,792
million.
The 5-year notes of Series Y-2024 were dated and
issued April 30. They are due April 30, 2024, with
interest payable on October 31 and April 30 until
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after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 24.
Tenders totaled $100,157 million; Treasury accepted
$41,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.315 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.694767. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.315 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 88.65 percent. The median
yield was 2.280 percent, and the low yield was 2.200
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $33 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $40,967 million.
In addition to the $41,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$523 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series Y-2024 is $100.
Auction of 7-Year Notes
On April 18, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $32,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was
to refund $107,208 million of securities maturing April
30 and to raise new cash of approximately $42,792
million.
The 7-year notes of Series K-2026 were dated and
issued April 30. They are due April 30, 2026, with
interest payable on October 31 and April 30 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-3/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on April 25.
Tenders totaled $79,745 million; Treasury accepted
$32,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.426 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.673481. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.426 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 52.62 percent. The median
yield was 2.380 percent, and the low yield was 1.988
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $59 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $31,941 million.
In addition to the $32,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$409 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
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MAY
Auction of 37-Day Cash Management Bills
On April 30, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $20,000 million of 37-day bills. They were
issued May 7 and matured June 13. The issue was to
raise new cash of approximately $105,000 million.
Treasury auctioned the bills on May 2. Tenders totaled
$65,417 million; Treasury accepted $20,000 million,
including $ million of noncompetitive tenders from the
public. The high bank discount rate was 2.385 percent.
May Quarterly Financing
On May 1, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $38,000 million of 3-year notes, $27,000
million of 10-year notes, and $19,000 million of 30year bonds to refund $55,363 million of securities
maturing May 15, 2019 and to raise new cash of
approximately $28,637 million.
The 3-year notes of Series AM-2022 were dated
and issued May 15. They are due May 15, 2022, with
interest payable on November 15 and May 15 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-1/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 7.
Tenders totaled $94,159 million; Treasury accepted
$38,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.248 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.645092. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.248 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 74.72 percent. The median
yield was 2.223 percent, and the low yield was 2.140
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $85 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $37,915 million.
In addition to the $38,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$12,945 million from FRBs for their own accounts.
The minimum par amount required for STRIPS of
notes of Series AM-2022 is $100.
The 10-year notes of Series C-2029 were dated and
issued May 15. They are due May 15, 2029, with
interest payable on November 15 and May 15 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-3/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 8.

Tenders totaled $58,553 million; Treasury accepted
$27,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.479 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.083877. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.479 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 3.82 percent. The median
yield was 2.430 percent, and the low yield was 2.357
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $21 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $26,979 million.
In addition to the $27,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$9,198 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series C-2029 is $100.
The 30-year bonds of May 2049 were dated and
issued May 15. They are due May 15, 2049, with
interest payable on November 15 and May 15 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-7/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the bonds before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 9.
Tenders totaled $41,807 million; Treasury accepted
$19,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.892 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.660573. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.892 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 90.57 percent. The median
yield was 2.840 percent, and the low yield was 2.650
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $8 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $18,992 million.
In addition to the $19,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$6,472 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of bonds of
May 2049 is $100.
Auction of 52-Week Bills
On May 16, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $26,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills.
They were issued May 23 and will mature May 21,
2020. The issue was to refund $107,002 million of all
maturing bills and to pay down approximately $9,002
million. Treasury auctioned the bills on May 21.
Tenders totaled $76,794 million; Treasury accepted
$26,000 million, including $565 million of
noncompetitive tenders from the public. The high bank
discount rate was 2.280 percent.

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Auction of 9-Year 8-Month 0-7/8 Percent TIPS
On May 16, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $11,000 million of 9-year 8-month 0-7/8
percent TIPS. The issue was to refund $73,083 million
of securities maturing May 31 and to raise new cash of
approximately $68,917 million.
The 9-year 8-month 0-7/8 percent TIPS of Series
A-2029 were dated January 15 and issued May 31.
They are due January 15, 2029, with interest payable
on July 15 and January 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 23.
Tenders totaled $33,825 million; Treasury accepted
$11,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 0.567 percent with an equivalent adjusted
price of $103.554563. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.567 percent.
Tenders at the high yield were allotted 55.24 percent.
The median yield was 0.522 percent, and the low yield
was 0.188 percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $8
million. Competitive tenders accepted from private
investors totaled $10,992 million. Adjusted accrued
interest of $3.30882 per $1,000 must be paid for the
period from January 15 to May 31. Both the
unadjusted price of $102.880694 and the unadjusted
accrued interest of $3.28729 were adjusted by an index
ratio of 1.00655, for the period from January 15 to
May 31.
In addition to the $11,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$1,156 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of TIPS of
Series A-2029 is $100.
Auction of 2-Year Notes
On May 23, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $40,000 million of 2-year notes. The issue was
to refund $73,083 million of securities maturing May
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $68,917
million.
The 2-year notes of Series BB-2021 were dated
and issued May 31. They are due May 31, 2021, with
interest payable on November 30 and May 31 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-1/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
11:00 a.m. ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
11:30 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 28.
Tenders totaled $109,820 million; Treasury accepted
$40,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful

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competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.125 percent with an equivalent price of
$100.000000. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.125 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 45.29 percent. The median
yield was 2.100 percent, and the low yield was 2.020
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $185 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $39,610 million.
In addition to the $40,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$4,202 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series BB-2021 is $100.
Auction of 5-Year Notes
On May 23, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $41,000 million of 5-year notes. The issue was
to refund $73,083 million of securities maturing May
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $68,917
million.
The 5-year notes of Series L-2024 were dated and
issued May 31. They are due May 31, 2024, with
interest payable on November 30 and May 31 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2 percent after
determining which tenders were accepted on a yield
auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 28.
Tenders totaled $97,620 million; Treasury accepted
$41,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.065 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.692719. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.065 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 64.27 percent. The median
yield was 2.030 percent, and the low yield was 1.980
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $40 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $40,960 million.
In addition to the $41,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$4,307 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series L-2024 is $100.
Auction of 1-Year 11-Month 0.139 Percent
FRNs
On May 23, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $18,000 million of 1-year 11-month 0.139
percent FRNs. The issue was to refund $73,083

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TREASURY FINANCING: APRIL-JUNE, continued
million of securities maturing May 31 and to raise new
cash of approximately $68,917 million.
The 1-year 11-month 0.139 percent FRNs of Series
BA-2021 were dated April 30 and issued May 31.
They are due April 30, 2021, with interest payable on
July 31, October 31, January 31, and April 30 until
maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the FRNs before
11:00 a.m. ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
11:30 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 29.
Tenders totaled $51,190 million; Treasury accepted
$18,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
discount margin of 0.140 percent with an equivalent
price of $99.997198. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at discount margins lower than
0.140 percent. Tenders at the high discount margin
were allotted 94.23 percent. The median discount
margin was 0.130 percent, and the low discount
margin was 0.080 percent. Noncompetitive tenders
totaled $8 million. Competitive tenders accepted from
private investors totaled $17,992 million. Accrued
interest of $0.216636278 per $100 must be paid for the
period from April 30 to May 31.
In addition to the $18,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$1,891 million from FRBs for their own accounts.
Auction of 7-Year Notes
On May 23, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $32,000 million of 7-year notes. The issue was
to refund $73,083 million of securities maturing May
31 and to raise new cash of approximately $68,917
million.
The 7-year notes of Series L-2026 were dated and
issued May 31. They are due May 31, 2026, with
interest payable on November 30 and May 31 until
maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 2-1/8 percent
after determining which tenders were accepted on a
yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on May 29.
Tenders totaled $73,552 million; Treasury accepted
$32,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.144 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.877109. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.144 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 69.05 percent. The median
yield was 2.090 percent, and the low yield was 2.000
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $25 million.

Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $31,975 million.
In addition to the $32,000 million of tenders
accepted in the auction process, Treasury accepted
$3,362 million from FRBs for their own accounts. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of notes of
Series L-2026 is $100.

JUNE
Auction of 3-Year Notes
On June 6, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $38,000 million of 3-year notes. The issue was
to refund $24,000 million of securities maturing June
15 and to raise new cash of approximately $54,000
million.
The 3-year notes of Series AN-2022 were dated
June 15 and issued June 17. They are due June 15,
2022, with interest payable on December 15 and June
15 until maturity. Treasury set an interest rate of 1-3/4
percent after determining which tenders were accepted
on a yield auction basis.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 11.
Tenders totaled $99,425 million; Treasury accepted
$38,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 1.861 percent with an equivalent price of
$99.678063. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 1.861 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 94.89 percent. The median
yield was 1.838 percent, and the low yield was 1.388
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $56 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $37,744 million. Accrued interest of $0.09563
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from June 15 to
June 17. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series AN-2022 is $100.
Auction of 9-Year 11-Month 2-3/8 Percent
Notes
On June 6, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $24,000 million of 9-year 11-month 2-3/8
percent notes. The issue was to refund $24,000 million
of securities maturing June 15 and to raise new cash of
approximately $54,000 million.
The 9-year 11-month 2-3/8 percent notes of Series
C-2029 were dated May 15 and issued June 17. They
are due May 15, 2029, with interest payable on
November 15 and May 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before

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TREASURY FINANCING: APRIL-JUNE, continued
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 12.
Tenders totaled $59,652 million; Treasury accepted
$24,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.130 percent with an equivalent price of
$102.176713. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.130 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 93.68 percent. The median
yield was 2.075 percent, and the low yield was 2.000
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $10 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $23,990 million. Accrued interest of $2.12976
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from May 15 to
June 17. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series C-2029 is $100.
Auction of 29-Year 11-Month 2-7/8 Percent
Bonds
On June 6, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $16,000 million of 29-year 11-month 2-7/8
percent bonds. The issue was to refund $24,000
million of securities maturing June 15 and to raise new
cash of approximately $54,000 million.
The 29-year 11-month 2-7/8 percent bonds of May
2049 were dated May 15 and issued June 17. They are
due May 15, 2049, with interest payable on November
15 and May 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the bonds before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 13.
Tenders totaled $37,060 million; Treasury accepted
$16,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.607 percent with an equivalent price of
$105.539994. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.607 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 52.19 percent. The median
yield was 2.555 percent, and the low yield was 2.188
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $10 million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $15,990 million. Accrued interest of $2.57813
per $1,000 must be paid for the period from May 15 to
June 17. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of bonds of May 2049 is $100.
Auction of 52-Week Bills
On June 13, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $26,000 million of 364-day Treasury bills.
They were issued June 20 and will mature June 18,
2020. The issue was to refund $110,012 million of all
maturing bills and to pay down approximately $12,012
million. Treasury auctioned the bills on June 18.
Tenders totaled $74,891 million; Treasury accepted

September 2019

$26,000 million, including $460 million of
noncompetitive tenders from the public. The high bank
discount rate was 1.985 percent.
Auction of 4-Year 10-Month 0-1/2 Percent TIPS
On June 13, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $15,000 million of 4-year 10-month 0-1/2
percent TIPS. The issue was to raise new cash of
approximately $33,000 million.
The 4-year 10-month 0-1/2 percent TIPS of Series
X-2024 were dated April 15 and issued June 28. They
are due April 15, 2024, with interest payable on
October 15 and April 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the TIPS before
12:00 noon ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
1:00 p.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 20.
Tenders totaled $38,279 million; Treasury accepted
$15,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 0.152 percent with an equivalent adjusted
price of $102.955042. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at yields lower than 0.152 percent.
Tenders at the high yield were allotted 30.97 percent.
The median yield was 0.100 percent, and the low yield
was 0.057 percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $18
million. Competitive tenders accepted from private
investors totaled $14,982 million. Adjusted accrued
interest of $1.02378 per $1,000 must be paid for the
period from April 15 to June 28. Both the unadjusted
price of $101.662906 and the unadjusted accrued
interest of $1.01093 were adjusted by an index ratio of
1.01271, for the period from April 15 to June 28. The
minimum par amount required for STRIPS of TIPS of
Series X-2024 is $100.
Auction of 1-Year 10-Month 0.139 Percent
FRNs
On June 20, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $18,000 million of 1-year 10-month 0.139
percent FRNs. The issue was to raise new cash of
approximately $33,000 million.
The 1-year 10-month 0.139 percent FRNs of Series
BA-2021 were dated April 30 and issued June 28.
They are due April 30, 2021, with interest payable on
July 31, October 31, January 31, and April 30 until
maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the FRNs before
11:00 a.m. ET for noncompetitive tenders and before
11:30 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 26.
Tenders totaled $60,473 million; Treasury accepted
$18,000 million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
discount margin of 0.210 percent with an equivalent

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35

TREASURY FINANCING: APRIL-JUNE, continued
price of $99.869789. Treasury accepted in full all
competitive tenders at discount margins lower than
0.210 percent. Tenders at the high discount margin
were allotted 33.59 percent. The median discount
margin was 0.200 percent, and the low discount
margin was 0.170 percent. Noncompetitive tenders
totaled $10 million. Competitive tenders accepted from
private investors totaled $17,990 million. Accrued
interest of $0.402016642 per $100 must be paid for the
period from April 30 to June 28.
Auction of 9-Year 11-Month 2-3/8 Percent
Notes
On June 21, 2019, Treasury announced it would
auction $25 million of 9-year 11-month 2-3/8 percent
notes. The issue was to raise new cash of
approximately $25 million.
The 9-year 11-month 2-3/8 percent notes of Series
C-2029 were dated May 15 and issued June 26. They
are due May 15, 2029, with interest payable on
November 15 and May 15 until maturity.
Treasury received tenders for the notes before
11:00 a.m. ET for competitive tenders on June 21.
Tenders totaled $86 million; Treasury accepted $25
million. All noncompetitive and successful
competitive bidders were allotted securities at the high
yield of 2.065 percent with an equivalent price of
$102.757204. Treasury accepted in full all competitive
tenders at yields lower than 2.065 percent. Tenders at
the high yield were allotted 98.34 percent. The median
yield was 2.060 percent, and the low yield was 2.030
percent. Noncompetitive tenders totaled $ million.
Competitive tenders accepted from private investors
totaled $25 million. Accrued interest of $2.71060 per
$1,000 must be paid for the period from May 15 to
June 26. The minimum par amount required for
STRIPS of notes of Series C-2029 is $100.

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TABLE PDO-1—Offerings of Regular Weekly Treasury Bills
[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations]

On total competitive bids accepted

Issue date

Amounts of bids accepted
On
On nonTotal
competitive competitive
amount 2
basis
basis 3
(4)
(6)
(5)

Description of new issue
Number Amount
Maturity
of days to of bids
date
maturity 1 tendered
(3)
(1)
(2)

High
price per
hundred
(7)

High
discount High investment rate
rate
(percent) (percent) 4
(9)
(8)

Regular weekly:
(4 week, 8 week, 13 week, and 26 week)
2019 – Apr. 02...............................................
Apr. 04 ...............................................
Apr. 09 ...............................................
Apr. 11 ...............................................
Apr. 16 ...............................................
Apr. 18 ...............................................
Apr. 23 ...............................................
Apr. 25 ...............................................
Apr. 30 ...............................................
May. 02 ..............................................
May. 07 ..............................................
May. 09 ..............................................
May. 14 ..............................................
May. 16 ..............................................
May. 21 ..............................................
May. 23 ..............................................
May. 28 ..............................................
May. 30 ..............................................
Jun. 04 ...............................................
Jun. 06 ...............................................
Jun. 11 ...............................................
Jun. 13 ...............................................
Jun. 18 ...............................................
Jun. 20 ...............................................
Jun. 25 ...............................................
Jun. 27 ...............................................

1

2019-Apr. 30
May 28
July 05
Oct. 03
May 07
June 04
July 11
Oct. 10
May 14
June 11
July 18
Oct. 17
May 21
June 18
July 25
Oct. 24
May 28
June 25
Aug. 01
Oct. 31
June 04
July 02
Aug. 08
Nov. 07
June 11
July 09
Aug. 15
Nov. 14
June 18
July 16
Aug. 22
Nov. 21
June 25
July 23
Aug. 29
Nov. 29
July 02
July 30
Sep. 05
Dec. 05
July 09
Aug. 06
Sep. 12
Dec. 12
July 16
Aug. 13
Sep. 19
Dec. 19
July 23
Aug. 20
Sep. 26
Dec. 26

28
56
92
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
183
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182
28
56
91
182

150,531.6
108,830.9
120,690.6
113,859.4
148,054.8
117,365.2
128,893.5
113,106.6
143,791.4
104,496.9
118,049.3
111,292.8
130,344.2
103,261.1
122,353.3
117,345.5
135,845.3
115,073.8
120,314.9
108,315.2
134,932.7
94,546.9
123,453.8
115,636.7
141,592.5
106,731.0
137,203.9
117,455.3
142,367.3
108,453.9
105,979.1
101,428.3
114,060.0
88,518.3
113,328.5
104,626.8
120,719.8
95,919.8
93,277.9
97,220.7
110,185.8
95,551.0
115,568.2
107,250.5
115,205.4
109,136.0
102,381.3
103,680.6
114,276.0
104,295.5
107,826.3
96,753.1

All 13-week bills represent additional issues of bills with an original maturity of 26 weeks or
52 weeks. Certain 26-week bills represent additional issues of bills with an original maturity
of 52 weeks. All 4-week bills represent additional issues of bills with an original maturity of
8 weeks.

September 2019

50,000.8
35,000.3
45,000.3
39,000.4
50,000.5
35,000.2
42,000.1
36,000.1
50,000.1
35,000.4
42,000.2
36,000.8
50,000.2
35,000.3
42,000.9
36,000.0
50,000.8
35,000.9
39,000.7
36,000.3
50,000.3
35,000.4
39,000.5
36,000.3
50,000.4
35,000.2
39,000.7
36,000.0
50,000.3
35,000.5
36,000.2
36,000.1
45,000.2
35,000.0
36,000.1
36,000.2
40,000.4
35,000.5
36,000.1
36,000.1
40,002.7
35,002.4
36,000.0
36,000.6
40,000.0
35,000.6
36,000.1
36,000.0
40,000.0
35,000.5
36,000.1
36,000.3
2

48,672.0
34,377.8
43,900.2
37,827.8
48,608.1
34,776.0
40,688.5
34,795.1
48,598.1
34,766.2
40,676.0
34,848.6
48,425.3
34,654.8
40,794.6
34,860.8
48,433.3
34,610.1
37,820.6
34,831.0
48,493.0
34,751.1
37,804.4
34,985.8
48,381.6
34,747.8
37,775.7
34,962.7
47,965.3
34,783.5
34,903.8
34,903.3
43,511.5
34,717.5
34,753.3
35,015.7
38,492.4
34,773.5
34,982.2
34,972.5
38,509.8
34,749.1
34,749.9
35,039.7
38,450.4
34,711.1
34,848.8
35,111.2
38,569.8
34,744.9
34,735.2
35,079.8

1,328.8
197.5
1,000.1
972.6
1,392.5
224.2
1,211.5
905.0
1,402.0
234.2
1,224.2
952.2
1,474.9
245.5
1,106.3
939.3
1,442.6
290.8
1,080.1
969.3
1,507.3
249.3
1,096.1
914.4
1,518.7
252.4
1,125.1
932.3
1,535.0
217.0
996.4
921.8
1,488.7
282.5
1,016.8
784.6
1,508.0
227.0
1,017.8
827.7
1,490.3
250.9
1,090.1
760.9
1,549.6
289.5
1,026.3
688.8
1,430.2
255.7
1,114.9
694.5

99.813333
99.627444
99.391778
98.796778
99.814111
99.629778
99.399653
98.789194
99.815278
99.630556
99.398389
98.791722
99.813333
99.628222
99.393333
98.786667
99.814111
99.629778
99.397125
98.789194
99.814111
99.628222
99.398389
98.796778
99.814500
99.629778
99.403444
98.809417
99.816056
99.633667
99.409764
98.817000
99.818389
99.637556
99.416083
98.820667
99.818778
99.637556
99.418611
98.859972
99.821889
99.642222
99.433778
98.918111
99.827722
99.657778
99.451472
98.923167
99.833556
99.672556
99.472958
98.973722

2.400
2.395
2.380
2.380
2.390
2.380
2.375
2.395
2.375
2.375
2.380
2.390
2.400
2.390
2.400
2.400
2.390
2.380
2.385
2.395
2.390
2.390
2.380
2.380
2.385
2.380
2.360
2.355
2.365
2.355
2.335
2.340
2.335
2.330
2.310
2.320
2.330
2.330
2.300
2.255
2.290
2.300
2.240
2.140
2.215
2.200
2.170
2.130
2.140
2.105
2.085
2.030

2.445
2.444
2.434
2.449
2.434
2.429
2.429
2.465
2.419
2.424
2.434
2.460
2.445
2.439
2.455
2.470
2.434
2.429
2.439
2.465
2.434
2.439
2.434
2.449
2.429
2.429
2.414
2.423
2.409
2.403
2.388
2.407
2.378
2.377
2.362
2.387
2.373
2.377
2.352
2.319
2.332
2.347
2.290
2.199
2.256
2.244
2.218
2.189
2.179
2.147
2.131
2.085

Includes amount awarded to the Federal Reserve System.3 Tenders for $5 million
or less from any one bidder are accepted in full at the high price of accepted
competitive bids. All Treasury Marketable auctions are conducted in a single-price
format as of November 2, 1998.
4 Equivalent coupon-issue yield.

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37

TABLE PDO-2—Offerings of Marketable Securities
Other than Regular Weekly Treasury Bills
[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Division of Financing Operations]

Amount
accepted 3, 4
(5)

Accepted
yield/discount
margin and
equivalent price
for notes and
bonds
(6)

104,145

40,000

2.261 - 99.978568

5y

96,290

41,000

2.172 - 99.778500

7y

81,397

32,000

2.281 - 99.800487

2.250% note—04/15/22-AL

3y

94,541

38,005

2.301 - 99.852977

2.625% note—02/15/29-B

9y

10m

61,292

24,003

2.466 - 101.377878

10m

36,021

16,002

2.930 - 101.381292

42,655

17,217

0.515 - 100.137446

89,442

26,000

Period to final maturity
(years, months, days) 2
(3)

Issue date
(1)

Description of securities 1
(2)

03/26/19

04/01/19

2.250% note—03/31/21-J

2y

03/27/19

04/01/19

2.125% note—03/31/24-J

03/28/19

04/01/19

2.250% note—03/31/26-J

04/09/19

04/15/19

04/10/19

04/15/19

Auction date

Amount
tendered
(4)

04/11/19

04/15/19

3.000% bond—02/15/49

29y

04/18/19

04/30/19

0.500% TIPS—04/15/24-X

5y

04/23/19

04/25/19

2.360% bill—04/23/20

04/23/19

04/30/19

2.250% note—04/30/21-K

2y

101,048

40,511

04/24/19

04/30/19

0.139% FRN—04/30/21-BA

2y

53,952

20,255

0.139 - 100.000000

04/24/19

04/30/19

2.250% note—04/30/24-Y

5y

100,680

41,524

2.315 - 99.694767

04/25/19

04/30/19

2.375% note—04/30/26-K

7y

80,154

32,409

2.426 - 99.673481

05/02/19

05/07/19

2.385% CMB—06/13/19

65,417

20,000

05/07/19

05/15/19

2.125% note—05/15/22-AM

107,104

50,945

05/08/19

05/15/19

2.375% note—05/15/29-C

10y

67,751

36,198

2.479 - 99.083877

05/09/19

05/15/19

2.875% bond—05/15/49

30y

48,280

25,472

2.892 - 99.660573

05/21/19

05/23/19

2.280% bill—05/21/20

76,794

26,000

05/23/19

05/31/19

0.875% TIPS—01/15/29-A

9y

05/28/19

05/31/19

2.125% note—05/31/21-BB

2y

364d

37d
3y

364d
8m

05/28/19

05/31/19

2.000% note—05/31/24-L

5y

05/29/19

05/31/19

0.139% FRN—04/30/21-BA

1y

05/29/19

05/31/19

2.125% note—05/31/26-L

06/11/19

06/17/19

1.750% note—06/15/22-AN

06/12/19

06/17/19

2.375% note—05/15/29-C

9y

11m

06/13/19

06/17/19

2.875% bond—05/15/49

29y

11m

06/18/19

06/20/19

1.985% bill—06/18/20

06/20/19

06/28/19

0.500% TIPS—04/15/24-X

4y

10m

06/21/19

06/26/19

2.375% note—05/15/29-C

9y

11m

06/26/19

06/28/19

0.139% FRN—04/30/21-BA

1y

10m

2.355 - 99.796039

2.248 - 99.645092

34,980

12,156

0.567 - 103.554563

114,021

44,202

2.125 - 100.000000

101,927

45,307

2.065 - 99.692719

53,081

19,891

0.140 - 99.997198

7y

76,913

35,362

2.144 - 99.877109

3y

99,425

38,000

1.861 - 99.678063

59,652

24,000

2.130 - 102.176713

37,060

16,000

2.607 - 105.539994

74,891

26,000

38,279

15,000

0.152 - 102.955042

86

25

2.065 - 102.757204

60,473

18,000

0.210 - 99.869789

11m

364d

1 Currently, all issues are sold at auction. For bill issues, the rate shown is the high bank
discount rate. For note and bond issues, the rate shown is the interest rate. For details of
bill offerings, see table PDO-1. As of October 1, 1997, all Treasury issues of notes and
bonds are eligible for STRIPS.
2 From date of additional issue in case of a reopening.
3 In reopenings, the amount accepted is in addition to the amount of original offerings.

4 Includes securities issued to the Federal Reserve System; and to foreign and international
monetary authorities, whether in exchange for maturing securities or for new cash.

Note—Amounts listed as tendered and accepted are amounts tendered and awarded on
auction day.

September 2019

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INTRODUCTION: Ownership of Federal Securities
Federal securities presented in the following tables are
public debt securities such as savings bonds, bills, notes, and
bonds that the Treasury issues. The tables also detail debt
issued by other Federal agencies under special financing
authorities. [See the Federal debt (FD) tables for a more
complete description of the Federal debt.]
Effective January 1, 2001, Treasury’s Bureau of the
Fiscal Service revised formats, titles, and column headings
in the “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United
States,” Table I: Summary of Treasury Securities
Outstanding and Table II: Statutory Debt Limit. These
changes should reduce confusion and bring the publication
more in line with the public’s use of terms.
Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service compiles data in
the “Treasury Bulletin” table OFS-1 from the “Monthly
Statement of the Public Debt of the United States.” Effective
June 2001, Bureau of the Fiscal Service revised procedures
and categories in this table to agree with the Bureau of the
Fiscal Service’s publication changes.

September 2019

 Table OFS-1 presents Treasury marketable and
nonmarketable securities and debt issued by other Federal
agencies held by Government accounts, the FRBs, and
private investors. Social Security and Federal retirement
trust fund investments comprise much of the Government
account holdings.
The FRBs acquire Treasury securities in the market as a
means of executing monetary policy.
 Table OFS-2 presents the estimated ownership of
U.S. Treasury securities. Information is primarily obtained
from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Flow of Funds
data, Table L209. State, local, and foreign holdings include
special issues of nonmarketable securities to municipal
entities and foreign official accounts. They also include
municipal, foreign official, and private holdings of
marketable Treasury securities. (See footnotes to the table
for description of investor categories.)

OWNERSHIP OF FEDERAL SECURITIES

39

TABLE OFS-1—Distribution of Federal Securities by Class of Investors and Type of Issues
[In millions of dollars. Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service]

Total
Federal
securities
outstanding
(1)

Total
outstanding
(2)

2014 ................................................
2015 ................................................
2016 ................................................
2017 ................................................
2018 ................................................

17,847,931
18,174,718
19,597,812
20,269,269
21,538,880

17,824,071
18,150,618
19,573,445
20,244,900
21,516,058

2018 - June .....................................
July ......................................
Aug ......................................
Sept .....................................
Oct .......................................
Nov ......................................
Dec ......................................
2019 - Jan ......................................
Feb ......................................
Mar ......................................
Apr .......................................
May......................................
June.....................................

21,218,581
21,336,499
21,481,902
21,538,880
21,725,216
21,873,089
21,997,036
22,005,220
22,138,026
22,050,081
22,049,873
22,048,574
22,045,280

21,195,070
21,313,061
21,458,850
21,516,058
21,702,370
21,850,094
21,974,096
21,982,423
22,115,526
22,027,880
22,027,668
22,026,424
22,023,283

End of
fiscal year
or month

Public debt securities
Held by U.S. Government accounts
Marketable
(4)

Nonmarketable
(5)

Public issues
held by Federal
Reserve banks
(6)

5,039,265
5,026,867
5,395,699
5,563,074
5,737,252

-

5,039,265
5,026,867
5,395,699
5,563,074
5,737,252

2,767,288
2,802,101
2,830,115
2,867,555
2,697,860

5,711,522
5,726,291
5,655,997
5,737,252
5,840,466
5,786,563
5,853,354
5,862,428
5,845,051
5,804,029
5,816,978
5,806,506
5,818,564

-

5,711,522
5,726,291
5,655,997
5,737,252
5,840,466
5,786,563
5,853,354
5,862,428
5,845,051
5,804,029
5,816,978
5,806,506
5,818,564

2,772,949
2,728,190
2,702,008
2,697,860
2,651,466
2,617,246
2,594,652
2,574,546
2,540,780
2,536,673
2,479,643
2,459,105
2,452,784

Total
(3)

Public debt securities, continued

Agency securities1

Held by private investors
End of
fiscal year
or month

Nonmarketable
(9)

Total
outstanding
(10)

Held by
private
investors
(11)

Held by
Government
accounts
(12)

Total
(7)

Marketable
(8)

2014 ................................................
2015 ................................................
2016 ................................................
2017 ................................................
2018 ................................................

10,017,518
10,321,650
11,347,631
11,814,271
13,080,946

9,526,925
10,051,650
10,830,489
11,332,237
12,580,185

490,594
270,000
517,142
482,034
500,761

23,860
24,100
24,367
24,369
22,822

23,857
24,095
24,363
24,368
22,822

3
5
4
1
-

2018 - June .....................................
July ......................................
Aug ......................................
Sept .....................................
Oct .......................................
Nov ......................................
Dec ......................................
2019 - Jan ......................................
Feb ......................................
Mar ......................................
Apr .......................................
May......................................
June.....................................

12,710,599
12,858,580
13,100,845
13,080,946
13,210,438
13,446,285
13,526,090
13,545,449
13,729,695
13,687,178
13,731,047
13,760,813
13,751,935

12,209,457
12,357,112
12,599,830
12,580,185
12,706,430
12,942,863
13,023,655
13,045,301
13,228,897
13,402,225
13,401,269
13,482,146
13,478,115

501,142
501,468
501,015
500,761
504,008
503,422
502,435
500,148
500,799
284,953
329,779
278,667
273,819

23,511
23,438
23,052
22,822
22,846
22,995
22,940
22,797
22,500
22,201
22,205
22,150
21,997

23,511
23,438
23,052
22,822
22,846
22,995
22,940
22,797
22,500
22,201
22,205
22,150
21,997

-

Note—Public issues held by the Federal Reserve banks have been revised to
include Ginnie Mae and exclude the following Government-Sponsored Enterprises:
Federal National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation,
and the Federal Home Loan Bank System.

September 2019

40

TABLE OFS-2—Estimated Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities
[In billions of dollars. Source: Office of Debt Management, Office of the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance]

Pension funds 3

End of month
2019 - June .......
Mar .........
2018 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2017 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2016 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2015 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2014 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2013 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2012 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2011 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2010 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
Mar .........
2009 - Dec .........
Sept ........
June .......
1

Total
public
debt 1
(1)

Federal
Reserve and
Government
accounts 2
(2)

22,023.5
22,028.0
21,974.1
21,516.1
21,195.3
21,089.9
20,492.7
20,244.9
19,844.6
19,846.4
19,976.9
19,573.4
19,381.6
19,264.9
18,922.2
18,150.6
18,152.0
18,152.1
18,141.4
17,824.1
17,632.6
17,601.2
17,352.0
16,738.2
16,738.2
16,771.6
16,432.7
16,066.2
15,855.5
15,582.3
15,222.8
14,790.3
14,343.1
14,270.0
14,025.2
13,561.6
13,201.8
12,773.1
12,311.3
11,909.8
11,545.3

7,945.2
7,999.1
8,095.0
8,068.1
8,106.9
8,086.6
8,132.1
8,036.9
7,943.4
7,941.1
8,005.6
7,863.5
7,911.2
7,801.4
7,711.2
7,488.7
7,536.5
7,521.3
7,578.9
7,490.8
7,461.0
7,301.5
7,205.3
6,834.2
6,773.3
6,656.8
6,523.7
6,446.8
6,475.8
6,397.2
6,439.6
6,328.0
6,220.4
5,958.9
5,656.2
5,350.5
5,345.1
5,259.8
5,276.9
5,127.1
5,026.8

Total
U.S.
privately Depository savings
held
institutions 3, 4 bonds 5
(3)
(4)
(5)
14,078.4
14,028.9
13,879.1
13,447.9
13,088.5
13,003.3
12,360.6
12,208.0
11,901.1
11,905.3
11,971.3
11,709.9
11,470.4
11,463.6
11,211.0
10,661.9
10,615.5
10,630.8
10,562.6
10,333.2
10,171.6
10,299.7
10,146.6
9,904.0
9,964.9
10,114.8
9,909.1
9,619.4
9,379.7
9,185.1
8,783.3
8,462.4
8,122.7
8,311.1
8,368.9
8,211.1
7,856.7
7,513.3
7,034.4
6,782.7
6,518.5

n/a
769.4
771.5
683.9
665.3
639.7
638.3
611.8
621.9
658.6
663.9
627.6
580.6
562.9
547.4
519.1
518.5
518.1
516.8
471.1
409.5
368.4
321.1
293.2
300.2
338.9
347.7
338.2
303.2
317.0
279.7
293.8
279.4
321.0
319.3
322.8
266.1
269.3
202.5
198.2
140.8

153.4
154.5
155.7
156.8
157.8
159.0
160.4
161.7
162.8
164.2
165.8
167.5
169.0
170.3
171.6
172.8
173.9
174.9
175.9
176.7
177.6
178.3
179.2
180.0
180.9
181.7
182.5
183.8
184.7
184.8
185.2
185.1
186.0
186.7
187.9
188.7
189.6
190.2
191.3
192.5
193.6

Source: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States (MSPD).” Face value.
Sources: Federal Reserve Bulletin, Table 1.18, Federal Reserve banks, statement of
condition, for System Open Market Accounts; and the U.S. Treasury MSPD for
intragovernmental holdings. Federal Reserve holdings exclude Treasury securities held
under repurchase agreements. As of February 2005, the debt held by Government
Accounts was renamed to Intragovernmental holdings.
3 Source: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Flow of Funds Table L.209.
4 Includes U.S. chartered depository institutions, foreign banking offices in U.S., banks in
U.S. affiliated areas, credit unions and bank holding companies.
5 Sources: “Monthly Statement of the Public Debt of the United States from January 1996.
From December 2014 to September 2018, includes savings bonds issued to myRA
accounts. Current accrual value.
2

September 2019

Private 6
(6)

State and Insurance
compalocal
nies 3
governments
(7)
(8)

n/a
440.2
629.9
612.2
593.1
571.0
405.0
546.6
408.5
436.9
536.4
544.3
537.1
524.0
504.7
305.3
373.8
447.8
507.1
490.7
482.6
474.3
464.9
347.8
444.5
463.4
468.0
453.9
427.4
406.6
391.9
373.6
251.8
215.8
206.8
198.2
190.8
183.0
175.6
167.2
164.1
6 Includes

n/a
395.3
348.8
278.6
281.4
278.4
277.3
261.2
262.8
238.1
217.8
203.3
185.0
170.4
174.5
171.0
185.7
176.7
199.2
198.7
198.3
184.3
181.3
187.5
187.7
193.4
183.6
181.7
171.2
169.4
160.7
155.7
158.0
157.9
153.7
145.2
150.1
153.6
151.4
145.6
144.6

n/a
202.2
204.8
226.1
225.9
361.8
372.6
359.7
348.4
338.4
330.2
341.2
329.8
315.5
306.7
306.6
304.3
305.1
307.0
298.1
287.7
276.8
271.2
273.2
276.2
284.3
292.7
292.6
293.6
298.1
297.3
259.6
254.8
253.5
248.4
240.6
231.8
225.7
222.0
210.2
200.0

Mutual
funds 3, 7
(9)
n/a
2,012.4
1,976.6
1,888.7
1,842.0
1,975.1
1,794.2
1,696.9
1,607.5
1,667.8
1,702.9
1,597.6
1,428.4
1,398.9
1,318.3
1,195.1
1,139.8
1,170.4
1,121.8
1,075.8
986.2
1,060.4
983.3
986.1
1,000.1
1,066.7
1,031.8
1,080.7
997.8
1,015.4
927.9
788.7
753.7
749.4
721.7
671.0
676.8
678.5
668.8
668.5
711.8

State and
Foreign
local
govern- and international 8
ments 3
(10)
(11)
n/a
647.8
660.2
700.2
700.9
682.1
690.5
672.5
686.3
712.4
717.6
721.6
710.0
692.0
680.3
648.4
658.2
676.9
657.4
628.8
638.8
632.0
633.6
624.3
612.6
615.6
599.6
596.9
585.4
567.4
562.2
557.9
572.2
585.3
595.7
586.0
584.4
585.0
585.6
583.6
588.5

n/a
6,473.4
6,264.9
6,225.9
6,225.0
6,223.4
6,211.3
6,301.9
6,151.9
6,075.3
6,006.3
6,155.9
6,279.1
6,284.4
6,146.2
6,105.9
6,163.1
6,172.6
6,157.7
6,069.2
6,018.7
5,948.3
5,792.6
5,652.8
5,595.0
5,725.0
5,573.8
5,476.1
5,310.9
5,145.1
5,006.9
4,912.1
4,690.6
4,481.4
4,435.6
4,324.2
4,070.0
3,877.9
3,685.1
3,570.6
3,460.8

Other
investors 9
(12)
n/a
2,933.7
2,866.7
2,675.6
2,397.0
2,112.9
1,811.0
1,595.8
1,651.0
1,613.7
1,630.5
1,350.8
1,251.3
1,345.2
1,361.2
1,237.8
1,098.1
988.2
919.5
924.0
972.1
1,177.0
1,319.5
1,359.1
1,367.8
1,245.7
1,229.4
1,015.4
1,105.4
1,081.2
971.4
935.8
976.1
1,360.1
1,499.9
1,534.4
1,497.1
1,350.1
1,152.1
1,046.3
914.2

U.S. Treasury securities held by the Federal Employees Retirement System
Thrift Savings Plan "G Fund."
7Includes money market mutual funds, mutual funds, and closed-end investment
companies.
8Source: Federal Reserve Board Treasury International Capital Survey. Includes
nonmarketable foreign series, Treasury securities, and Treasury deposit funds. Excludes
Treasury securities held under repurchase agreements in custody accounts at the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York. For additional information, see:
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/pages/index.aspx.
9 Includes individuals, Government-sponsored enterprises, brokers and dealers, bank
personal trusts and estates, corporate and non-corporate businesses, and other investors

41

INTRODUCTION: U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in Circulation
The U.S. Currency and Coin Outstanding and in
Circulation (USCC) statement informs the public of the total
face value of currency and coin used as a medium of
exchange that is in circulation at the end of a given
accounting month. The statement defines the total amount of
currency and coin outstanding and the portion deemed to be
in circulation. It includes some old and current rare issues
that do not circulate or that may do so to a limited extent.
Treasury includes them in the statement because the issues
were originally intended for general circulation.

The USCC statement provides a description of the
various issues of paper money. It also gives an estimated
average of currency and coin held by each individual, using
estimates of population from the Bureau of the Census.
USCC information has been published by Treasury since
1888, and was published separately until 1983, when it was
incorporated into the “Treasury Bulletin.” The USCC comes
from monthly reports compiled by Treasury offices, U.S.
Mint offices, the Federal Reserve banks (FRBs), and the
Federal Reserve Board.

TABLE USCC-1—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation, June 30, 2019
[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service]

Currency
Amounts outstanding ..............................

Total
currency
and coin
(1)

Total currency
(2)

Federal Reserve notes 1
(3)

Currency no
longer issued
(5)

U.S. notes
(4)

$1,946,271,131,086

$1,896,816,585,254

$1,896,340,705,511

$239,147,366

$236,732,377

The Treasury .......................................

242,013,781

52,881,781

52,615,204

7,505

259,072

FRBs ...................................................

203,051,233,531

201,359,041,682

201,359,036,757

-

4,925

Amounts in circulation .............................

$1,742,977,883,774

$1,695,404,661,791

$1,694,929,053,550

$239,139,861

$236,468,380

Less amounts held by:

Total
(1)

Dollars 2, 3
(2)

Fractional
coins
(3)

$49,454,545,832

$6,547,064,108

$ 42,907,481,724

The Treasury .......................................

189,132,000

48,770,000

140,362,000

FRBs ...................................................

1,692,191,849

1,104,822,011

587,369,838

Amounts in circulation .............................

$47,573,221,983

$5,393,472,097

$42,179,749,886

Coins 2
Amounts outstanding ..............................
Less amounts held by:

See footnotes following table USCC-2.

September 2019

U.S. CURRENCY AND COIN OUTSTANDING AND IN CIRCULATION

42

TABLE USCC-2—Amounts Outstanding and in Circulation, June 30, 2019
[Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service]

Currency in circulation by denomination
$1 ................................................................................

Total
(1)

U.S. notes
(3)

Currency no
longer issued
(4)

$12,289,836,276

$143,503

$139,788,156

Federal Reserve notes 1
(2)

$12,429,767,935

$2 ................................................................................

2,573,618,186

2,442,130,654

131,475,018

12,514

$5 ................................................................................

15,157,523,530

15,027,250,480

107,500,110

22,772,940

$10 ..............................................................................

19,930,358,050

19,910,523,120

6,300

19,828,630

$20 ..............................................................................

185,983,554,340

185,963,454,720

3,840

20,095,780

$50 ..............................................................................

88,614,797,650

88,603,310,500

500

11,486,650

6

$100 ............................................................................

1,370,402,888,000

1,370,380,938,800

-

21,949,200

$500 ............................................................................

141,770,500

141,582,000

5,500

183,000

$1,000 .........................................................................

165,169,000

164,968,000

5,000

196,000

$5,000 .........................................................................

1,764,000

1,709,000

-

55,000

$10,000 .......................................................................

3,450,000

3,350,000

-

100,000

Fractional notes 5 ........................................................

600

-

90

510

Total currency .........................................................

$1,695,404,661,791

$1,694,929,053,550

$239,139,861

$236,468,380

Amounts (in millions)
(1)

Comparative totals of currency and coins in circulation—selected dates
June 30, 2019……………………………………………………………….

1,742,978

Per capita 4
(2)
5,294

May 31, 2019………………………………………………………………..

1,738,291

5,283

April 30, 2019……………………………………………………………….

1,729,677

5,259

Sept 30, 2015……………………………………………………………….

1,387,552

4,310

Sept 30, 2010……………………………………………………………….

954,719

3,074

Sept 30, 2005……………………………………………………………….

766,487

2,578

Sept 30, 2000……………………………………………………………….

568,614

2,061

Sept 30, 1995……………………………………………………………….

409,272

1,553

Sept 30, 1990……………………………………………………………….

278,903

1,105

Sept 30, 1985……………………………………………………………….

187,337

782

Sept 30, 1980……………………………………………………………….

129,916

581

June 30, 1975……………………………………………………………….

81,196

380

June 30, 1970……………………………………………………………….

54,351

265

June 30, 1965……………………………………………………………….

39,719

204

1

Issued on or after July 1, 1929.
Excludes coins sold to collectors at premium prices.
3 Includes $481,781,898 in standard silver dollars.
2

September 2019

4

Based on Bureau of the Census estimates of population.
value of certain partial denominations not presented for redemption.
current FRB adjustment.

5 Represents
6 Represents

Foreign Currency Positions
Exchange Stabilization Fund

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INTRODUCTION: Foreign Currency Positions
The “Treasury Bulletin” reports foreign currency
holdings of large foreign exchange market participants.
These reports provide information on positions in derivative
instruments, such as foreign exchange futures and options
that are increasingly used in establishing foreign exchange
positions but were not covered in the old reports.
The information is based on reports of large foreign
exchange market participants on holdings of five major
foreign currencies (Canadian dollar, Japanese yen, Swiss
franc, pound sterling, and euro) and the U.S. dollar.
Positions in the U.S. dollar, which have been collected since
January 1999, are intended to approximate “all other”
currency positions of reporting institutions. U.S.-based
businesses file a consolidated report for their domestic and
foreign subsidiaries, branches, and agencies. U.S.
subsidiaries of foreign entities file only for themselves, not
for their foreign parents. Filing is required by law (31 United
States Code 5315; 31 Code of Federal Regulations 128,
Subpart C).
Weekly and monthly reports must be filed throughout the
calendar year by major foreign exchange market
participants, which are defined as market participants with
more than $50 billion equivalent in foreign exchange
contracts on the last business day of any calendar quarter
during the previous year (end March, September, September,
or December). Such contracts include the amounts of foreign
exchange spot contracts bought and sold, foreign exchange
forward contracts bought and sold, foreign exchange futures
bought and sold, and one half the notional amount of foreign
exchange options bought and sold.

A quarterly report must be filed throughout the calendar
year by each foreign exchange market participant that had
more than $5 billion equivalent in foreign exchange
contracts on the last business day of any quarter the previous
year (end March, June, September, or December).
This information is published in six sections
corresponding to each of the major currencies covered by the
reports. Tables I-1 through VI-1 present the currency data
reported weekly by major market participants. Tables I-2
through VI-2 present more detailed currency data of major
market participants, based on monthly reports. Tables I-3
through VI-3 present quarterly consolidated currency data
reported by large market participants that do not file weekly
reports. The information in the tables referenced above is
based on the reports referenced in this Introduction: Foreign
Currency Positions and is not audited by the Federal Reserve
banks or the Treasury Department.
Principal exchanged under cross-currency interest rate
swaps is reported as part of purchases or sales of foreign
exchange. Such principal also was noted separately on
monthly and quarterly reports through December 1998,
when this practice was discontinued. The net options
position, or the net delta-equivalent value of an options
position, is an estimate of the relationship between an
option’s value and an equivalent currency hedge. The delta
equivalent value is defined as the product of the first partial
derivative of an option valuation formula (with respect to the
price of the underlying currency) multiplied by the notional
principal of the contract.
The data reported herein may occasionally differ with
respect to time periods noted in prior issues of this Bulletin
due to revisions from reporting market participants that arise
from quality assurance controls.

September 2019

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FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION I—Canadian Dollar Positions
TABLE FCP-I-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Net options
positions
(3)

Exchange
rate
(Canadian
dollars per
U.S. dollar)
(4)

01/02/19 .................................................................

1,794,213

1,880,738

-19

1.3591

01/09/19 .................................................................

1,896,481

2,000,385

-84

1.3212

01/16/19 .................................................................

1,876,582

1,972,336

n.a.

1.3243

01/23/19 .................................................................

1,879,453

1,978,942

-116

1.3362

01/30/19 .................................................................

2,007,485

2,115,079

-123

1.3189

02/06/19 .................................................................

1,941,306

2,054,135

-152

1.3192

02/13/19 .................................................................

1,987,089

2,095,457

n.a.

1.3222

02/20/19 .................................................................

1,981,502

2,085,789

-155

1.3160

02/27/19 .................................................................

2,111,994

2,220,287

-165

1.3145

03/06/19 .................................................................

2,106,556

2,218,872

-144

1.3445

03/13/19 .................................................................

2,177,222

2,285,170

-153

1.3318

03/20/19 .................................................................

1,834,961

1,934,996

-180

1.3327

03/27/19 .................................................................

1,885,427

1,989,742

-157

1.3434

04/03/19 .................................................................

1,878,210

1,990,144

-131

1.3315

04/10/19 .................................................................

1,921,829

2,035,464

-71

1.3322

04/17/19 .................................................................

1,934,881

2,052,942

-49

1.3345

04/24/19 .................................................................

1,936,385

2,050,560

-4

1.3465

05/01/19 .................................................................

2,021,147

2,137,589

-15

1.3417

05/08/19 .................................................................

1,977,007

2,095,853

6

1.3458

05/15/19 .................................................................

1,993,609

2,111,802

2

1.3432

05/22/19 .................................................................

2,036,781

2,159,983

4

1.3417

05/29/19 .................................................................

2,085,536

2,212,497

-6

1.3533

06/05/19 .................................................................

2,160,780

2,283,173

25

1.3409

06/12/19 .................................................................

2,236,980

2,366,617

5

1.3298

06/19/19 .................................................................

1,926,183

2,050,658

-75

1.3362

06/26/19 .................................................................

2,024,538

2,151,849

-114

1.3109

September 2019

47

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION I—Canadian Dollar Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-I-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Options positions
Puts
Calls
Bought
Written
Bought
Written
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)

Exchange rate
(Canadian
Net delta
dollars per
equivalent
U.S. dollar)
(9)
(10)

2016 - Dec ...................

1,231,903

1,297,321

185,126

142,307

76,907

74,036

87,315

88,353

95

1.3426

2017 - Dec ...................

1,486,798

1,561,949

288,642

241,105

46,583

40,354

70,598

67,895

-29

1.2517

2018 - July. ..................

1,884,877

1,981,259

296,260

254,517

49,917

50,570

77,871

79,182

-229

1.3017

Aug ..................

2,125,841

2,224,277

280,179

239,972

57,534

57,103

87,059

80,934

-170

1.3072

Sept .................

1,849,013

1,936,396

314,166

246,791

59,567

61,693

85,419

78,833

-118

1.2922

Oct ...................

1,972,301

2,072,212

285,055

264,304

56,299

56,691

87,297

82,433

-128

1.3129

Nov ..................

2,103,350

2,193,152

303,939

289,533

49,370

46,490

85,672

80,753

-90

1.3282

Dec ..................

1,738,245

1,819,509

313,369

302,946

43,236

38,625

76,598

72,266

-5

1.3644

2019 – Jan. .................

2,008,147

2,191,117

344,037

268,174

50,531

44,893

87,861

83,410

-112

1.3140

Feb ..................

2,136,468

2,232,228

349,319

274,883

52,447

42,902

84,833

80,561

-134

1.3166

Mar ..................

1,932,204

2,026,074

485,689

473,294

49,833

41,370

85,649

79,112

-103

1.3360

Apr. ..................

2,021,461

2,136,768

319,065

296,271

60,011

42,893

91,248

83,485

-21

1.3427

May..................

2,182,404

2,299,272

344,574

324,548

65,434

47,715

96,213

89,375

-37

1.3523

June.................

2,022,692

2,135,708

373,241

290,861

67,300

49,043

90,126

83,223

-84

1.3091

TABLE FCP-I-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In millions of Canadian dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Spot, forward
and future contracts

Foreign currency
denominated
Bought
(5)

38,266

68,203

154,935

124,039

2017 - Mar ...................

38,456

72,918

163,394

117,313

June .................

36,779

75,076

146,175

112,640

Sept ..................

35,092

64,307

145,296

93,483

1,179

785

587

Dec ...................

33,411

65,839

131,559

88,031

534

483

n.a.

2018 - Mar ...................

30,951

67,926

138,067

96,580

1,522

1,210

1,761

June .................

35,482

69,299

150,243

n.a.

920

1,052

3,455

Sept ..................

36,139

66,217

154,540

107,071

608

493

2,173

n.a.

n.a.

1.2922

Dec ...................

30,046

61,338

139,329

98,110

696

346

3,017

1,941

18

1.3644

2019 - Mar ...................

28,766

61,640

135,230

n.a.

326

276

2,650

471

2

1.3360

401

Written
(6)

Bought
(7)

Written
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Sold
(2)

2016 - Dec ...................

Liabilities
(4)

Exchange rate
(Canadian
dollars per
U.S. dollar)
(10)

Purchased
(1)

Report date

Assets
(3)

Options positions
Puts

Calls

397

2,393

n.a.

n.a.

1.3426

482

393

946

563

n.a.

1.3321

1,726

827

790

823

n.a.

1.2982

345

12

1.2509

1,372

n.a.

1.2517

n.a.

-374

1.2891

2,751

n.a.

1.3140

September 2019

48

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION II—Japanese Yen Positions
TABLE FCP-II-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Purchased
(1)

Sold
(2)

Net options positions
(3)

Exchange
rate
(Japanese
yen per
U.S. dollar)
(4)

Spot, forward and future contracts
Report date
01/02/19 ..................................................................

577,128

588,803

78

109.22

01/09/19 ..................................................................

568,693

579,583

94

108.38

01/16/19 ..................................................................

569,588

580,008

89

108.84

01/23/19 ..................................................................

567,005

572,245

80

109.44

01/30/19 ..................................................................

589,425

599,396

77

109.57

02/06/19 ..................................................................

587,541

598,152

-14

109.75

02/13/19 ..................................................................

573,640

583,150

73

110.86

02/20/19 ..................................................................

576,705

585,191

65

110.69

02/27/19 ..................................................................

599,729

610,304

68

110.92

03/06/19 ..................................................................

575,520

588,312

n.a.

111.66

03/13/19 ..................................................................

590,440

601,516

52

111.23

03/20/19 ..................................................................

543,146

555,080

57

111.41

03/27/19 ..................................................................

563,064

496,710

61

110.38

04/03/19 ..................................................................

562,483

574,739

31

111.48

04/10/19 ..................................................................

556,747

567,640

39

110.92

04/17/19 ..................................................................

550,783

562,000

29

112.00

04/24/19 ..................................................................

578,625

587,614

24

111.81

05/01/19 ..................................................................

589,057

600,467

31

111.18

05/08/19 ..................................................................

573,203

584,018

51

110.12

05/15/19 ..................................................................

549,702

561,592

50

109.58

05/22/19 ..................................................................

555,978

566,825

40

110.28

05/29/19 ..................................................................

571,068

580,701

39

109.24

06/05/19 ..................................................................

587,974

599,033

40

108.20

06/12/19 ..................................................................

578,271

588,891

22

108.42

06/19/19 ..................................................................

541,710

554,270

26

108.36

06/26/19 ..................................................................

576,989

588,788

15

107.64

September 2019

49

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION II—Japanese Yen Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-II-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Report date

Purchased
(1)

Sold
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
(3)

Options positions
Puts

Calls

Liabilities
(4)

Bought
(5)

Written
(6)

Bought
(7)

Written
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange rate
(Japanese yen
per U.S. dollar)
(10)

2016 - Dec ..................

544,393

555,836

165,963

161,306

53,736

51,991

66,242

69,150

101

116.78

2017 - Dec ..................

504,078

520,500

122,567

108,990

24,449

23,590

46,603

47,891

-88

112.69

2018 - July. .................

564,657

580,989

133,566

121,835

35,445

35,654

60,419

62,113

102

111.88

Aug .................

586,192

600,428

113,116

92,199

36,972

36,437

62,154

64,426

158

110.98

Sept ................

573,132

585,026

127,174

102,773

35,387

36,314

60,748

62,798

131

113.48

Oct ..................

608,157

616,642

120,163

97,247

37,029

37,669

61,992

63,642

139

112.86

Nov .................

654,425

667,269

120,171

97,991

34,359

34,711

57,627

58,544

76

113.54

Dec .................

563,910

575,977

148,629

116,910

32,541

33,380

53,035

53,747

122

109.70

2019 – Jan. ................

605,134

611,246

143,459

112,211

33,906

34,999

57,953

57,340

123

108.84

Feb .................

614,469

624,963

154,848

115,624

34,037

34,501

55,716

55,745

107

111.38

Mar .................

576,499

588,375

138,745

119,149

34,184

33,947

57,532

59,442

81

110.68

Apr. .................

582,292

593,294

148,804

118,428

31,483

31,046

55,195

57,116

80

111.40

May.................

594,183

605,407

147,694

123,962

35,930

35,432

59,775

61,455

106

108.66

June................

571,660

584,948

145,197

126,866

35,444

34,475

56,015

58,105

76

107.84

TABLE FCP-II-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In billions of Japanese yen. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date
2016 - Dec ...................

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)
7,108

5,182

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)
7,472

6,167

Calls
Bought
(5)

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange rate
(Japanese yen
per U.S. dollar)
(10)

352

303

1,006

912

n.a.

116.78

2017 - Mar ...................

9,579

6,990

8,034

6,134

420

486

841

554

-1

111.41

June .................

8,848

7,755

6,915

6,245

n.a.

438

539

386

-1

112.40

Sept ..................

6,536

6,008

7,693

6,769

800

670

609

n.a.

46

112.64

Dec ...................

6,451

6,017

7,824

6,224

n.a.

373

537

n.a.

3

112.69

2018 - Mar ...................

7,528

5,557

8,133

5,332

n.a.

568

568

312

-1

106.20

June .................

8,528

6,807

8,813

6,062

371

432

446

259

-4

110.71

Sept ..................

8,632

8,294

9,056

6,455

432

518

387

145

-9

113.48

Dec ...................

8,255

5,873

8,065

6,269

489

505

440

153

49

109.70

2019 - Mar ...................

7,770

7,173

9,217

6,776

276

500

423

120

3

110.68

September 2019

50

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION III—Swiss Franc Positions
TABLE FCP-III-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Net options positions
(3)

Exchange
rate (Swiss
francs per
U.S. dollar)
(4)

01/02/19 ..................................................................

894,239

940,374

n.a.

0.9884

01/09/19 ..................................................................

910,166

955,698

n.a.

0.9767

01/16/19 ..................................................................

869,442

909,617

266

0.9899

01/23/19 ..................................................................

853,033

897,545

266

0.9946

01/30/19 ..................................................................

884,123

925,286

283

0.9988

02/06/19 ..................................................................

842,098

893,137

275

1.0009

02/13/19 ..................................................................

918,954

958,688

282

1.0073

02/20/19 ..................................................................

906,262

945,426

282

0.9990

02/27/19 ..................................................................

955,667

998,527

257

1.0003

03/06/19 ..................................................................

942,022

989,907

244

1.0038

03/13/19 ..................................................................

1,043,230

1,086,237

240

1.0046

03/20/19 ..................................................................

844,562

889,004

177

0.9974

03/27/19 ..................................................................

882,560

922,888

172

0.9946

04/03/19 ..................................................................

907,760

944,329

175

0.9970

04/10/19 ..................................................................

873,258

917,455

208

1.0019

04/17/19 ..................................................................

868,634

910,216

296

1.0099

04/24/19 ..................................................................

861,957

903,056

290

1.0184

05/01/19 ..................................................................

924,618

967,241

313

1.0137

05/08/19 ..................................................................

884,603

920,804

303

1.0181

05/15/19 ..................................................................

890,404

938,100

299

1.0090

05/22/19 ..................................................................

903,847

946,669

306

1.0090

05/29/19 ..................................................................

912,860

961,425

296

1.0066

06/05/19 ..................................................................

1,004,106

1,049,197

260

0.9919

06/12/19 ..................................................................

1,035,731

1,080,540

272

0.9944

06/19/19 ..................................................................

896,539

943,293

234

0.9960

06/26/19 ..................................................................

981,208

1,041,842

210

0.9760

September 2019

51

FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION III—Swiss Franc Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-III-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date
2016 - Dec ...................

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)
856,367

886,180

95,226

75,142

Calls
Bought
(5)
71,537

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)
71,228

91,631

Exchange rate
Net delta (Swiss francs per
equivalent
U.S. dollar)
(9)
(10)

91,542

n.a.

1.0160

2017 - Dec ...................

802,799

840,898

108,582

88,094

46,025

44,500

79,500

79,164

139

0.9738

2018 - July. ..................

946,543

999,710

107,330

78,980

50,602

50,248

79,032

77,102

n.a.

0.9895

Aug ..................

1,058,787

1,114,088

94,730

65,061

51,395

47,821

85,298

85,046

129

0.9698

Sept .................

945,254

993,633

89,891

60,365

51,926

49,358

92,461

92,049

198

0.9758

Oct ...................

1,005,618

1,041,500

99,519

71,698

52,501

49,847

91,974

88,355

n.a.

1.0057

Nov ..................

1,117,061

1,162,679

93,743

68,314

47,514

47,221

82,957

77,005

n.a.

0.9987

Dec ..................

903,658

958,551

140,373

74,358

41,440

40,908

71,023

66,935

n.a.

0.9832

2019 – Jan. .................

952,015

1,036,320

110,522

74,672

41,418

38,629

76,378

73,015

n.a.

0.9938

Feb ..................

1,018,227

1,069,995

123,326

86,978

40,250

37,296

76,260

73,824

n.a.

0.9974

Mar ..................

975,496

1,023,289

115,202

89,181

43,406

40,066

77,792

74,693

n.a.

0.9962

Apr. ..................

934,384

991,240

118,813

83,548

44,305

41,186

78,202

75,617

198

1.0200

May..................

1,028,678

1,085,179

110,214

80,443

45,064

42,094

78,182

74,937

211

1.0034

June.................

1,034,100

1,092,763

121,387

84,378

46,932

44,671

78,949

76,146

196

0.9758

TABLE FCP-III-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In millions of Swiss francs. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date
2016 - Dec ...................

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

14,939

14,888

98,271

2017 - Mar ...................

16,299

18,151

June .................

14,015

16,797

Sept ..................

16,715

Calls
Bought
(5)

16,029

-

73,924

16,435

n.a.

15,161

14,386

n.a.

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange rate
(Swiss francs per
U.S. dollar)
(10)

n.a.

n.a.

1.0160

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9998

-

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

-

0.9586

18,437

47

25

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9688

Dec ...................

13,981

15,244

137,271

21,087

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9738

2018 - Mar ...................

16,766

16,882

n.a.

16,258

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9532

June .................

16,890

20,470

142,369

20,256

447

n.a.

n.a.

18

8

0.9922

Sept ..................

19,130

19,387

123,956

18,990

1,571

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9758

Dec ...................

15,097

18,571

n.a.

21,413

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

0.9832

2019 - Mar ...................

22,347

25,493

116,641

17,824

n.a.

n.a.

1,002

n.a.

n.a.

0.9962

September 2019

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SECTION IV—Sterling Positions
TABLE FCP-IV-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Net options positions
(3)

Exchange
rate (U.S.
dollars per
pound)
(4)

01/02/19 ..................................................................

2,658,983

2,850,838

-187

1.2598

01/09/19 ..................................................................

2,741,301

2,911,394

-171

1.2764

01/16/19 ..................................................................

2,737,266

2,903,542

-100

1.2862

01/23/19 ..................................................................

2,723,456

2,868,665

-145

1.3074

01/30/19 ..................................................................

2,961,870

3,121,049

30

1.3062

02/06/19 ..................................................................

2,849,513

2,993,890

27

1.2956

02/13/19 ..................................................................

2,936,527

3,079,432

21

1.2865

02/20/19 ..................................................................

2,969,700

3,104,400

9

1.3084

02/27/19 ..................................................................

3,221,981

3,373,115

-34

1.3318

03/06/19 ..................................................................

3,163,694

3,316,740

-11

1.3148

03/13/19 ..................................................................

3,308,984

3,464,428

8

1.3230

03/20/19 ..................................................................

2,902,864

3,056,139

10

1.3191

03/27/19 ..................................................................

3,002,803

3,170,719

-95

1.3192

04/03/19 ..................................................................

2,977,041

3,140,080

-118

1.3181

04/10/19 ..................................................................

2,989,616

3,144,862

-194

1.3100

04/17/19 ..................................................................

2,896,526

3,053,362

-249

1.3036

04/24/19 ..................................................................

2,914,780

3,063,655

-124

1.2947

05/01/19 ..................................................................

3,126,335

3,275,274

-99

1.3091

05/08/19 ..................................................................

2,968,793

3,111,362

-134

1.3014

05/15/19 ..................................................................

2,918,933

3,065,344

-176

1.2878

05/22/19 ..................................................................

3,073,930

3,204,071

-193

1.2674

05/29/19 ..................................................................

3,093,536

3,233,150

-203

1.2631

06/05/19 ..................................................................

3,060,936

3,205,210

-158

1.2706

06/12/19 ..................................................................

3,214,096

3,359,608

-187

1.2693

06/19/19 ..................................................................

2,934,397

3,078,121

-127

1.2625

06/26/19 ..................................................................

3,110,831

3,254,398

-136

1.2697

September 2019

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SECTION IV—Sterling Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-IV-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Bought
(5)

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)

Calls

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange rate
(U.S. dollars
per pound)
(10)

2016 - Dec ................... 2,634,404

2,776,318

843,327

802,250

93,749

86,150

122,705

123,603

289

1.2337

2017 - Dec ................... 2,423,244

2,623,676

926,696

893,568

117,539

122,752

76,952

84,254

n.a.

1.3529

2018 - July. .................. 2,967,834

3,159,403

957,533

917,466

122,448

121,877

79,918

85,054

83

1.3125

Aug .................. 3,041,722

3,228,784

861,939

786,260

126,336

123,696

100,171

100,615

4

1.2964

Sept ................. 2,856,448

3,044,326

861,721

789,295

141,280

131,361

111,425

112,115

79

1.3053

Oct ................... 3,049,957

3,242,052

867,443

801,628

159,596

154,111

107,455

100,852

-25

1.2779

Nov .................. 3,194,276

3,390,525

869,880

836,790

193,216

192,777

120,934

114,656

-42

1.2772

Dec .................. 2,689,988

2,890,865

1,007,091

949,828

140,974

136,398

113,570

106,149

-93

1.2763

2019 – Jan. ................. 3,045,921

3,254,190

997,584

955,082

n.a.

n.a.

137,273

131,860

-50

1.3135

Feb .................. 3,275,482

3,442,418

970,893

965,259

199,014

199,124

139,245

135,702

-137

1.3274

Mar .................. 3,227,245

3,419,644

1,000,478

996,831

198,387

199,967

141,230

140,648

-133

1.3032

Apr. .................. 3,169,915

3,315,090

1,002,569

993,808

140,329

142,290

93,057

91,047

-171

1.3030

May.................. 3,315,203

3,454,978

1,042,948

1,003,506

116,239

116,843

96,352

85,658

-226

1.2620

June................. 3,105,878

3,303,765

991,342

967,864

105,432

105,933

95,688

84,616

-158

1.2704

TABLE FCP-IV-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In millions of pounds sterling. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Calls
Bought
(5)

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange rate
(U.S. dollars
per pound)
(10)

2016 - Dec ...................

28,041

50,392

166,414

66,551

n.a.

428

2,686

1,577

4

1.2337

2017 - Mar ...................

32,627

57,900

173,010

73,491

1,446

n.a.

2,643

1,825

-20

1.2537

June .................

31,555

58,169

200,516

65,150

1,498

1,355

2,837

1,910

50

1.2995

Sept ..................

34,429

63,757

199,533

58,382

1,369

1,380

2,032

1,755

81

1.3402

Dec ...................

25,399

53,184

191,984

55,362

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

47

1.3529

2018 - Mar ...................

30,475

53,016

199,384

59,382

981

1,011

2,162

n.a.

41

1.4027

June .................

29,048

52,235

194,834

55,851

1,208

1,396

2,551

n.a.

-26

1.3197

Sept ..................

41,040

58,126

201,492

60,050

1,700

1,559

2,739

2,481

33

1.3053

Dec ...................

35,192

56,491

196,698

56,905

7,323

5,123

2,941

2,060

118

1.2763

2019 - Mar ...................

34,141

55,988

212,271

66,402

5,781

4,704

1,953

1,594

39

1.3032

September 2019

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SECTION V—U.S. Dollar Positions
TABLE FCP-V-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Net options
positions
(3)

Exchange
rate
(4)

01/02/19 ................................................................

25,182,309

24,480,425

514

n.a.

01/09/19 ................................................................

25,926,046

25,259,154

-300

n.a.

01/16/19 ................................................................

25,658,579

25,014,654

-39

n.a.

01/23/19 ................................................................

25,560,710

24,819,364

279

n.a.

01/30/19 ................................................................

27,371,539

26,571,577

-154

n.a.

02/06/19 ................................................................

26,918,399

26,114,071

-104

n.a.

02/13/19 ................................................................

27,266,268

26,517,572

429

n.a.

02/20/19 ................................................................

27,203,154

26,491,656

105

n.a.

02/27/19 ................................................................

29,164,152

28,480,706

38

n.a.

03/06/19 ................................................................

28,500,064

27,792,962

1,057

n.a.

03/13/19 ................................................................

29,857,001

29,107,594

726

n.a.

03/20/19 ................................................................

26,651,290

25,926,524

123

n.a.

03/27/19 ................................................................

27,456,334

26,698,683

879

n.a.

04/03/19 ................................................................

27,343,001

26,606,566

206

n.a.

04/10/19 ................................................................

27,609,878

26,835,335

152

n.a.

04/17/19 ................................................................

27,169,574

26,455,675

379

n.a.

04/24/19 ................................................................

27,420,449

26,696,183

231

n.a.

05/01/19 ................................................................

28,321,071

27,635,420

619

n.a.

05/08/19 ................................................................

27,394,490

26,757,696

64

n.a.

05/15/19 ................................................................

27,229,242

26,598,312

7

n.a.

05/22/19 ................................................................

27,947,769

27,234,512

127

n.a.

05/29/19 ................................................................

28,622,824

27,902,713

-100

n.a.

06/05/19 ................................................................

29,465,422

28,722,062

-563

n.a.

06/12/19 ................................................................

30,418,785

29,624,115

-356

n.a.

06/19/19 ................................................................

27,329,070

26,559,040

-1,125

n.a.

06/26/19 ................................................................

28,706,737

27,880,463

-1,263

n.a.

September 2019

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SECTION V—U.S. Dollar Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-V-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

2016 - Dec .............. 24,428,323

23,781,344

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)
-

-

Options positions
Puts
Bought
Written
(7)
(8)

Calls
Bought
(5)

Written
(6)

2,238,378

2,263,923

1,522,790

1,502,724

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange
rate
(10)

-8,477

n.a.

2017 - Dec .............. 22,947,777

22,020,668

-

-

1,381,708

1,385,483

1,129,488

1,104,281

-217

n.a.

2018 - July. ............. 27,744,921

26,834,815

-

-

1,746,534

1,940,579

1,426,768

1,363,967

-436

n.a.

Aug ............. 28,609,702

27,808,885

-

-

1,764,399

2,007,984

1,468,404

1,438,512

44

n.a.

Sept ............ 26,791,475

25,978,559

-

-

1,677,063

1,658,552

1,467,630

1,412,115

372

n.a.

Oct .............. 28,034,953

27,250,201

-

-

1,808,732

1,782,706

1,466,629

1,437,620

654

n.a.

Nov ............. 30,070,310

29,297,565

-

-

1,751,890

1,729,057

1,505,681

1,483,572

477

n.a.

Dec ............. 25,392,480

24,612,467

-

-

1,523,947

1,488,815

1,300,684

1,276,938

1,281

n.a.

2019 – Jan. ............ 28,153,345

26,817,450

-

-

1,581,411

1,519,164

1,388,454

1,354,611

281

n.a.

Feb ............. 29,141,143

28,325,390

-

-

1,612,538

1,562,054

1,436,922

1,403,943

505

n.a.

Mar ............. 27,788,010

26,936,972

-

-

1,630,632

1,581,428

1,465,592

1,412,243

434

n.a.

Apr. ............. 27,616,883

26,839,549

-

-

1,582,336

1,839,408

1,356,414

1,316,661

312

n.a.

May............. 29,276,005

28,458,773

-

-

1,754,795

1,686,563

1,357,582

1,319,015

213

n.a.

June............ 28,149,837

27,217,934

-

-

1,664,320

1,612,362

1,349,305

1,298,206

-1,095

n.a.

TABLE FCP-V-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In millions of U.S. dollars. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Calls
Bought
Written
(5)
(6)

Options positions
Puts
Bought
Written
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange
rate
(10)
n.a.

2016 - Dec ..................

389,471

318,849

-

-

31,554

21,574

15,484

23,106

4,224

2017 - Mar ..................

431,337

407,589

-

-

28,169

17,729

20,518

20,835

1,350

n.a.

June ................

425,050

402,427

-

-

21,559

14,688

16,157

19,475

1,982

n.a.

Sept .................

409,209

386,483

-

-

23,061

17,456

25,252

25,799

5,034

n.a.

Dec ..................

413,086

391,712

-

-

22,767

13,886

11,689

15,952

3,468

n.a.

2018 - Mar ..................

409,805

388,908

-

-

22,041

14,030

17,127

23,531

2,909

n.a.

June ................

453,783

396,708

-

-

27,521

21,915

18,996

22,059

3,559

n.a.

Sept .................

460,821

345,464

-

-

23,367

20,128

14,757

15,794

3,811

n.a.

Dec ..................

427,106

370,983

-

-

23,014

25,224

26,202

25,804

2,684

n.a.

2019 - Mar ..................

433,583

327,533

-

-

21,089

21,385

21,276

20,719

1,955

n.a.

September 2019

56

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SECTION VI—Euro Positions
TABLE FCP-VI-1—Weekly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Net options positions
(3)

Exchange
rate
(Euros per
U.S. dollar)
(4)

01/02/19 .............................................................................

6,740,569

6,935,216

5

0.8805

01/09/19 .............................................................................

7,067,087

7,251,842

-92

0.8678

01/16/19 .............................................................................

6,889,473

7,079,232

-129

0.8766

01/23/19 .............................................................................

6,772,427

6,963,197

-195

0.8780

01/30/19 .............................................................................

7,152,882

7,325,686

-273

0.8758

02/06/19 .............................................................................

7,000,309

7,198,302

-474

0.8787

02/13/19 .............................................................................

7,246,359

7,454,602

-432

0.8859

02/20/19 .............................................................................

7,125,261

7,318,513

-463

0.8797

02/27/19 .............................................................................

7,680,012

7,844,993

-459

0.8795

03/06/19 .............................................................................

7,389,993

7,563,606

-360

0.8834

03/13/19 .............................................................................

7,898,959

8,070,042

-509

0.8842

03/20/19 .............................................................................

7,036,073

7,204,478

-478

0.8809

03/27/19 .............................................................................

7,287,087

7,475,285

-425

0.8889

04/03/19 .............................................................................

7,246,647

7,398,087

-326

0.8895

04/10/19 .............................................................................

7,294,947

7,462,305

-573

0.8876

04/17/19 .............................................................................

7,109,290

7,274,039

-446

0.8852

04/24/19 .............................................................................

7,119,299

7,291,530

-564

0.8935

05/01/19 .............................................................................

7,593,632

7,776,290

-511

0.8892

05/08/19 .............................................................................

7,112,117

7,254,810

-569

0.8924

05/15/19 .............................................................................

7,091,967

7,269,213

-603

0.8922

05/22/19 .............................................................................

7,237,618

7,418,911

-596

0.8964

05/29/19 .............................................................................

7,343,142

7,515,655

-661

0.8980

06/05/19 .............................................................................

7,507,394

7,687,811

-325

0.8895

06/12/19 .............................................................................

7,812,664

8,019,739

-430

0.8842

06/19/19 .............................................................................

7,049,521

7,213,831

-632

0.8917

06/26/19 .............................................................................

7,381,935

7,565,704

-265

0.8780

September 2019

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FOREIGN CURRENCY POSITIONS

SECTION VI—Euro Positions, continued
TABLE FCP-VI-2—Monthly Report of Major Market Participants
[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Bought
(5)

Written
(6)

Calls

Options positions
Puts
Bought
Written
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange
rate
(10)

2016 - Dec ................... 7,257,059

7,454,411

2,288,818

2,253,384

424,184

420,117

671,763

677,997

2,729

0.9477

2017 - Dec ................... 6,140,523

6,462,865

2,184,607

2,013,841

514,987

502,218

334,292

341,940

1,078

0.8318

2018 - July. .................. 7,504,964

7,720,309

2,413,861

2,158,422

574,120

561,431

453,795

464,797

225

0.8543

Aug .................. 7,876,139

8,058,243

1,992,299

1,771,150

606,973

595,540

476,927

489,516

293

0.8624

Sept ................. 7,374,345

7,548,078

1,932,331

1,752,645

587,763

588,776

451,691

458,075

461

0.8604

Oct ................... 7,623,833

7,854,980

2,001,726

1,851,558

580,474

575,787

452,874

443,859

706

0.8825

Nov .................. 8,223,877

8,417,443

2,140,096

1,977,647

585,145

587,287

438,586

432,353

534

0.8832

Dec .................. 6,855,887

7,081,645

2,342,011

2,797,839

504,551

499,156

366,025

351,874

654

0.8729

2019 – Jan. ................. 7,614,568

7,785,062

2,408,851

2,860,784

533,299

527,125

399,161

381,167

644

0.8731

Feb .................. 7,969,397

8,194,567

2,285,143

2,908,559

511,692

503,844

429,346

416,955

348

0.8788

Mar .................. 7,656,329

7,863,511

2,449,565

3,107,815

527,745

510,394

445,727

435,873

341

0.8906

Apr. .................. 7,505,497

7,742,184

2,468,047

3,084,871

516,150

506,554

433,560

414,440

247

0.8928

May.................. 7,782,004

7,995,132

2,548,407

2,720,992

517,166

506,370

423,223

402,692

242

0.8969

June................. 7,488,424

7,703,732

2,503,573

2,452,292

549,949

536,835

396,163

385,268

352

0.8792

TABLE FCP-VI-3—Quarterly Report of Large Market Participants
[In millions of euros. Source: Treasury Foreign Currency Reporting]

Report date

Spot, forward
and future contracts
Purchased
Sold
(1)
(2)

Foreign currency
denominated
Assets
Liabilities
(3)
(4)

Calls
Bought
(5)

Options positions
Puts
Written
Bought
Written
(6)
(7)
(8)

Net delta
equivalent
(9)

Exchange
rate
(10)

2016 - Dec ...................

132,047

123,382

352,547

221,574

5,059

3,453

17,431

9,210

-392

0.9477

2017 - Mar ...................

145,378

146,517

374,527

245,027

9,239

7,718

15,482

8,084

197

0.9347

June .................

170,683

151,125

421,092

237,263

9,781

8,505

9,977

4,992

n.a.

0.8763

Sept ..................

138,547

134,715

418,632

224,298

13,624

13,030

11,161

6,860

n.a.

0.8465

Dec ...................

132,848

141,002

424,027

221,785

7,219

5,647

6,446

3,750

1,410

0.8318

2018 - Mar ...................

121,906

133,637

438,501

239,147

7,782

8,243

11,826

7,446

n.a.

0.8117

June .................

127,433

149,132

420,024

228,919

9,337

9,142

15,583

10,718

-38

0.8564

Sept ..................

148,337

150,159

420,886

233,535

6,139

6,305

13,161

7,093

n.a.

0.8604

Dec ...................

120,771

151,638

403,637

243,374

9,724

9,224

14,938

10,156

219

0.8729

2019 - Mar ...................

113,779

142,999

389,681

221,676

6,158

6,074

12,830

8,899

n.a.

0.8906

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INTRODUCTION: Exchange Stabilization Fund
To stabilize the exchange value of the dollar, the
Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) was established pursuant
to chapter 6, section 10 of the Gold Reserve Act of January
30, 1934 codified at 31 United States Code 5302, which
authorized establishment of a Treasury fund to be operated
under the exclusive control of the Secretary, with approval
of the President.
Subsequent amendment of the Gold Reserve Act
modified the original purpose somewhat to reflect
termination of the fixed exchange rate system.
Resources of the fund include dollar balances, partially
invested in U.S. Government securities, special drawing
rights -SDRs, and balances of foreign currencies. Principal
sources of income -+ or loss -- for the fund are profits -+ or
losses -- on SDRs and foreign exchange, as well as interest
earned on assets.

 Table ESF-1 presents the assets, liabilities, and
capital of the fund. The figures are in U.S. dollars or their
equivalents based on current exchange rates computed
according to the accrual method of accounting. The capital
account represents the original capital appropriated to the fund
by Congress of $2 billion, minus a subsequent transfer of $1.8
billion to pay for the initial U.S. quota subscription to the
International Monetary Fund. Gains and losses are reflected in
the cumulative net income -+ or loss -- account.
 Table ESF-2 shows the results of operations by
quarter. Figures are in U.S. dollars or their equivalents
computed according to the accrual method. “Profit -+ or loss
-- on foreign exchange” includes realized profits or losses.
“Adjustment for change in valuation of SDR holdings and
allocations” reflects net gain or loss on revaluation of SDR
holdings and allocations for the quarter.

TABLE ESF-1—Balances as of Mar. 31, 2019, and June 30, 2019
[In thousands of dollars. Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management]

Assets, liabilities, and capital

Mar. 31, 2019

Apr. 1, 2019,
through
June 30, 2019

June 30, 2019

Assets
U.S. dollars:
Held with Treasury:
Fund Balance ...................................................................
U.S. Government securities .............................................
Special drawing rights 1 ...........................................................
Foreign exchange and securities:
European euro .....................................................................
Japanese yen.......................................................................
Accounts receivable .................................................................

22,479,611
50,766,297

78,653
131,822

22,558,264
50,898,119

12,223,282
8,448,101
168,409

215,405
222,423
-14,721

12,438,687
8,670,524
153,688

Total assets..........................................................................

94,085,700

633,582

94,719,282

Liabilities and capital
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable.................................................................

90,371

137

90,508

Total current liabilities ......................................................

90,371

137

90,508

Other liabilities:
SDR certificates ...................................................................
SDR allocations ...................................................................

5,200,000
49,026,994

69,219

5,200,000
49,096,213

Total other liabilities .........................................................

54,226,994

69,219

54,296,213

Capital:
Capital account ....................................................................
Net income -+ or loss -- -see Table ESF-2 ..........................

200,000
129,533

564,227

200,000
693,760

Total capital ......................................................................

39,768,335

564,226

40,332,561

Total liabilities and capital ............................................

94,085,700

633,582

94,719,282

See footnote on the following page.

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TABLE ESF-2—Income and Expense
[In thousands of dollars. Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management]

Current quarter
Apr. 1, 2019,
through
June 30, 2019

Fiscal year to date
Oct. 1, 2018
through
June 30, 2019

Income and expense

Profit -+ or loss-- on:

Foreign exchange ..........................................................

430,257

308,935

Adjustment for change in valuation
of SDR holdings and allocations 1 ....................................

2,658

-5,895

SDRs ..............................................................................

4,513

13,739

U.S. Government securities ...........................................

134,261

398,592

Foreign exchange ..........................................................

-7,462

-21,611

Income from operations .................................................

564,227

693,760

Net income (+) or loss (-) ...........................................

564,227

693,760

Net income (+) or loss (-):

1 Beginning July 1974, the International Monetary Fund adopted a technique for valuing the
SDRs based on a weighted average of exchange rates for the currencies of selected
member countries. The U.S. SDR holdings and allocations are valued on this basis
beginning July 1974.

Note—Annual balance sheets for fiscal years 1934 through 1940 appeared in the 1940
“Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury” and those for succeeding years
appeared in subsequent reports through 1980. Quarterly balance sheets beginning with
December 31, 1938, have been published in the “Treasury Bulletin.” Data from inception
to September 30, 1978, may be found on the statements published in the January 1979
“Treasury Bulletin.”

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TRUST FUNDS

63

TABLE TF-6A—Highway Trust Fund
The following information is released according to the
provisions of the Byrd Amendment [codified at 26 United
States Code 9503(d)] and represents data concerning the
Highway Trust Fund. The figure described as “unfunded
authorizations” is the latest estimate received from the DOT.

The 48-month revenue estimates for the highway and
mass transit accounts, respectively, include the latest
estimates received from Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis
for excise taxes, net of refunds. They represent net highway
receipts for those periods.

Highway Account
[In billions of dollars. Source: DOT]

Commitments (unobligated balances plus unpaid obligations, fiscal year 2020) ..............................................................................................................

80

less:
Cash balance (fiscal year 2020) .........................................................................................................................................................................................

14

Unfunded authorizations (fiscal year 2020) ........................................................................................................................................................................

66

48-month revenue estimate (fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024) ............................................................................................................................

151

Mass Transit Account
[In billions of dollars. Source: DOT]

Commitments (unobligated balances plus unpaid obligations, fiscal year 2020) ..............................................................................................................

31

less:
Cash balance (fiscal year 2020) .........................................................................................................................................................................................

4

Unfunded authorizations (fiscal year 2020) ........................................................................................................................................................................

27

48-month revenue estimate (fiscal years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024) ...........................................................................................................................

26

Note—Detail may not add due to rounding.

Note—Assumes the revenues and spending levels prescribed in the Public Law 114-94.

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Glossary
With References to Applicable Sections and Tables
Source: Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Amounts outstanding and in circulation (USCC)—Includes
all issues by the Bureau of the Mint purposely intended as a
medium of exchange. Coins sold by the Bureau of the Mint at
premium prices are excluded; however, uncirculated coin sets
sold at face value plus handling charge are included.
Average discount rate (PDO-1, -2)—In Treasury bill auctions,
purchasers tender competitive bids on a discount rate basis.
The average discount rate is the weighted, or adjusted,
average of all bids accepted in the auction.
Budget authority (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Congress
passes laws giving budget authority to Government entities,
which gives the agencies the power to spend Federal funds.
Congress can stipulate various criteria for the spending of
these funds. For example, Congress can stipulate that a given
agency must spend within a specific year, number of years, or
any time in the future.
The basic forms of budget authority are appropriations,
authority to borrow, contract authority, and authority to
obligate and expend offsetting receipts and collections. The
period of time during which Congress makes funds available
may be specified as 1-year, multiple-year, or no-year. The
available amount may be classified as either definite or
indefinite; a specific amount or an unspecified amount can
be made available. Authority also may be classified as
current or permanent. Permanent authority requires no
current action by Congress.
Budget deficit—The total, cumulative amount by which
budget outlays (spending) exceed budget receipts (income).
Cash management bills (PDO-1)—Marketable Treasury
bills of irregular maturity lengths, sold periodically to fund
short-term cash needs of Treasury. Their sale, having higher
minimum and multiple purchase requirements than those of
other issues, is generally restricted to competitive bidders.
Competitive tenders (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—
A bid to purchase a stated amount of one issue of Treasury
securities at a specified yield or discount. The bid is accepted
if it is within the range accepted in the auction. (See
Noncompetitive tenders.)

Second Liberty Loan Act of 1917, the nature of the limitation
was modified until, in 1941, it developed into an overall limit
on the outstanding Federal debt.
Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3101(b). By the Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2018 and Bipartisan Budget Act, 2018,
Public Law 115-119, the Statutory Debt Limit was suspended
through March 1, 2019.
Discount—The interest deducted in advance when purchasing
notes or bonds. (See Accrued discount.)
Discount rate (PDO-1)—The difference between par value
and the actual purchase price paid, annualized over a 360-day
year. Because this rate is less than the actual yield (couponequivalent rate), the yield should be used in any comparison
with coupon issue securities.
Dollar coins (USCC)—Include standard silver and nonsilver
coins.
Domestic series (FD-2)—Nonmarketable, interest- and noninterest-bearing securities issued periodically by Treasury to
the Resolution Funding Corporation (RFC) for investment of
funds authorized under section 21B of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Act (12 United States Code 1441b).
Federal intrafund transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Intrabudgetary transactions in which payments and
receipts both occur within the same Federal fund group
(Federal funds or trust funds).
Federal Reserve notes (USCC)—Issues by the U.S.
Government to the public through the Federal Reserve banks
and their member banks. They represent money owed by the
Government to the public. Currently, the item “Federal
Reserve notes—amounts outstanding” consists of new series
issues. The Federal Reserve note is the only class of currency
currently issued.

Currency no longer issued (USCC)—Old and new series
gold and silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes, national
bank notes, and 1890 Series Treasury notes.

Foreign-targeted issue (PDO-2)—Foreign-targeted issues
were notes sold between October 1984 and February 1986 to
foreign institutions, foreign branches of U.S. institutions,
foreign central banks or monetary authorities, or to
international organizations in which the United States held
membership. Sold as companion issues, they could be
converted to domestic (normal) Treasury notes with the same
maturity and interest rates. Interest was paid annually.

Debt outstanding subject to limitation (FD-6)—The debt
incurred by the Treasury subject to the statutory limit set by
Congress. Until World War I, a specific amount of debt was
authorized to each separate security issue. Beginning with the

Government account series (FD-2)—Certain trust fund
statutes require the Secretary of the Treasury to apply monies
held by these funds toward the issuance of nonmarketable
special securities. These securities are sold directly by

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GLOSSARY
Treasury to a specific Government agency, trust fund, or
account. Their rate is based on an average of market yields on
outstanding Treasury obligations, and they may be redeemed
at the option of the holder. Roughly 80 percent of these are
issued to five holders: the Federal Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance Trust Fund; the civil service retirement and
disability fund; the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund; the
military retirement fund; and the Unemployment Trust Fund.
Interfund transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—
Transactions in which payments are made from one fund
group (either Federal funds or trust funds) to a receipt account
in another group.
International Monetary Fund transactions (“Exchange
Stabilization Fund”, ESF-1)—(IMF) Established by the
United Nations, the IMF promotes international trade, stability
of exchange, and monetary cooperation. Members are allowed
to draw from the fund.
Intrabudgetary transactions (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—
These occur when payment and receipt both occur within the
budget, or when payment is made from off-budget Federal
entities whose budget authority and outlays are excluded from
the budget totals.
Noncompetitive tenders (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—This is a tender or bid to purchase a stated par
amount of securities at the highest yield or discount rate
awarded to competitive bidders for a single-price auction.
Obligations (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—An unpaid
commitment to acquire goods or services.
Off-budget Federal entities (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—
Federally owned and controlled entities whose transactions are
excluded from the budget totals under provisions of law. Their
receipts, outlays, and surplus or deficit are not included in
budget receipts, outlays, or deficits. Their budget authority is
not included in totals of the budget.
Outlays (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Payments on
obligations in the form of cash, checks, the issuance of bonds
or notes, or the maturing of interest coupons.
Par value—The face value of bonds or notes, including
interest.
Quarterly financing (“Treasury Financing Operations”)—
Treasury has historically offered packages of several
“coupon” security issues on the 15th of February, May,
August, and November, or on the next working day. These
issues currently consist of a 3-year note, a 10-year note, and a
30-year bond. Treasury sometimes offers additional amounts
of outstanding long-term notes or bonds, rather than selling
new security issues. (See Reopening.)
Fractional coins (USCC)—Coins minted in denominations
of 50, 25, and 10 cents, and minor coins (5 cents and 1 cent).

65

Receipts (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—Funds collected
from selling land, capital, or services, as well as collections
from the public (budget receipts), such as taxes, fines, duties,
and fees.
Reopening (PDO-2)—The offer for sale of additional
amounts of outstanding issues, rather than an entirely new
issue. A reopened issue will always have the same maturity
date, CUSIP-number, and interest rate as the original issue.
Special drawing rights (“Exchange Stabilization Fund,”
ESF-1)—International assets created by IMF that serve to
increase international liquidity and provide additional
international reserves. SDRs may be purchased and sold
among eligible holders through IMF. (See IMF.)
SDR allocations are the counterpart to SDRs issued by
IMF based on members’ quotas in IMF. Although shown in
Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) statements as liabilities,
they must be redeemed by ESF only in the event of
liquidation of, or U.S. withdrawal from, the SDR department
of IMF or cancellation of SDRs.
SDR certificates are issued to the Federal Reserve
System against SDRs when SDRs are legalized as money.
Proceeds of monetization are deposited into an ESF account
at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Spot (“Foreign Currency Positions”)—Due for receipt or
delivery within 2 workdays.
State and local government series (SLGS) (FD-2)—Special
nonmarketable certificates, notes, and bonds offered to State
and local governments as a means to invest proceeds from
their own tax-exempt financing. Interest rates and maturities
comply with IRS arbitrage provisions. SLGS are offered in
both time deposit and demand deposit forms. Time deposit
certificates have maturities of up to 1 year. Notes mature in 1
to 10 years and bonds mature in more than 10 years. Demand
deposit securities are 1-day certificates rolled over with a rate
adjustment daily.
Statutory debt limit (FD-6)—By Act of Congress there is a
limit, either temporary or permanent, on the amount of public
debt that may be outstanding. When this limit is reached,
Treasury may not sell new debt issues until Congress
increases or extends the limit. For a detailed listing of changes
in the limit since 1941, see the Budget of the United States
Government. (See debt outstanding subject to limitation.)
STRIPS (PDO-2)—Separate Trading of Registered Interest
and Principal Securities. Long-term notes and bonds may be
divided into principal and interest-paying components, which
may be transferred and sold in amounts as small as $1,000.
STRIPS are sold at auction at a minimum par amount, varying
for each issue. The amount is an arithmetic function of the
issue’s interest rate.

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GLOSSARY

Treasury bills—The shortest term Federal security (maturity
dates normally varying from 3 to 12 months), are sold at a
discount.
Trust fund transaction (“Federal Fiscal Operations”)—
An intrabudgetary transaction in which both payments and
receipts occur within the same trust fund group.

September 2019

United States—Includes the 50 States, District of Columbia,
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Midway
Island, Virgin Islands, Wake Island, and all other territories
and possessions.
U.S. notes (USCC)—Legal tender notes of five different
issues: 1862 ($5-$1,000 notes); 1862 ($1-$2 notes); 1863 ($5$1,000 notes); 1863 ($1-$10,000 notes); and 1901 ($10 notes).

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