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USFinancialData
November 25, 2005
Final Edition
Calendar of Releases
Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases.
MONDAY*
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY*
FRIDAY
November 21
November 22
November 23
November 24
November 25
Leading Indicators (Oct)
A: 0.9%
P: 0.8%
FOMC Minutes
(previous meeting)
December 1
December 2
Initial Claims (11/19)
A: 335K
P: 315K
Help Wanted Index (Oct)
November 28
November 29
Existing Home Sales (Oct)
F: 7.20M
P: 7.20M
New Home Sales (Oct)
F: 1188K
P: 1200K
Durable Goods (Oct)
F: 1.2%
P: 1.2%
Cons Confidence (Nov)
F: 91.0
P: 90.0
November 30
Initial Claims (11/26)
F: 320K
P: 312K
Nonfarm Payroll (Nov)
F: 210K
P: 180K
Corporate Profits (Q3)
Construct Spending (Oct)
F: 0.3%
P: 0.4%
Unemployment Rate (Nov)
F: 5.0%
P: 5.0%
Current Economic
Conditions (Beige Book)
Personal Income (Oct)
F: 0.4%
P: 0.4%
Latest issue:
National Economic Trends
F: 4.1%
GDP (Q3)
P: 4.0%
Consumption (Oct)
F: 0.2%
P: 0.2%
ISM Index (Nov)
F: 57.8
P: 57.2
December 5
ISM Non Mfg Index (Nov)
F: 58.0
December 6
Factory Orders (Oct)
F: 1.2%
December 7
Consumer Credit (Oct)
F: $4.0B
December 8
December 9
Initial Claims (12/3)
F: 320K
Productivity (Q3)
F: 4.2%
Unit Labor Costs (Q3)
F: –0.5%
DEFINITIONS: A, actual value; P, previous week’s forecast; F, current week’s forecast; K, thousand; M, million; B, billion.
*The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System provides H.3, H.4.1, and H.6 releases each Thursday and H.10 and H.15 releases
each Monday.
Forecast data are from Thomson Financial. ©Thomson Financial, 2005. All Rights Reserved. Use, duplication, or sale of this service or the
data contained herein, except as described in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Subscription Agreement, is strictly prohibited.
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Contents
Page
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
Adjusted Monetary Base
Adjusted Reserves
MZM
M2
Yields on Selected Securities
Yields on Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Treasury Securities
Federal Funds Futures Market
Equity Price Indices
Crude Oil Prices
Natural Gas Prices
Exchange Rates
Currency, Savings, and Small Time Deposits
Large Time Deposits, Retail Money Funds, and Borrowings from Federal Reserve Banks
Bank Loans
Commercial Paper
Reference Tables
Notes
Conventions used in this publication:
1. Unless otherwise indicated, figure and table data are weekly and seasonally adjusted.
2. For pages 7, 10, 12 (top chart), 13, and 18 (top and bottom right tables), the last observation is a daily average that
incorporates all available data at the time of publication, which usually includes observations for the first three trading
days of the week (Monday through Wednesday). The previous observations signify that week’s average.
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updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Adjusted Monetary Base
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
830
820
810
800
790
780
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Adjusted Monetary Base
To the average of
two maintenance
periods ending:
Compounded annual rates of change, average of two maintenance periods ending:
11/24/04
04/27/05
02/16/05
04/27/05
05/25/05
06/22/05
07/20/05
08/31/05
09/28/05
2.6
05/25/05
2.4
0.2
06/22/05
2.6
1.1
2.7
07/20/05
2.7
1.5
2.9
3.7
08/31/05
3.0
2.2
3.5
4.2
4.2
09/28/05
3.5
2.9
4.4
5.1
5.3
6.2
10/26/05
3.1
2.4
3.4
3.8
3.8
3.9
3.2
11/23/05
2.8
2.2
3.0
3.3
3.1
3.1
2.2
-0.7
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
3
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Adjusted Reserves
Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
102
100
98
96
94
92
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Adjusted Reserves
To the average of
two maintenance
periods ending:
Compounded annual rates of change, average of two maintenance periods ending:
11/10/04
02/02/05
04/13/05
05/11/05
06/08/05
07/06/05
08/17/05
04/13/05
-4.7
05/11/05
-3.8
-14.1
06/08/05
-0.8
-7.3
10.6
07/06/05
-3.4
-9.9
-1.0
-2.1
08/17/05
-3.0
-8.0
-0.8
-1.4
-9.1
09/14/05
-0.9
-4.7
2.9
3.3
-1.2
7.9
10/12/05
0.7
-2.2
5.5
6.2
3.3
11.3
21.1
11/09/05
-0.8
-3.8
2.1
2.2
-0.9
4.2
6.6
09/14/05
-0.3
Research Division
4
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
MZM
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
6900
6800
6700
6600
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
MZM
To the average
of four weeks
ending:
Compounded annual rates of change, average of four weeks ending:
11/15/04
04/18/05
0.6
05/16/05
-0.1
-1.9
06/13/05
-0.1
-1.5
07/11/05
0.6
-0.2
0.6
2.9
08/22/05
1.0
0.5
1.4
2.9
4.1
09/19/05
1.6
1.4
2.5
4.0
5.2
02/07/05
04/18/05
05/16/05
06/13/05
07/11/05
08/22/05
09/19/05
-2.0
5.0
10/17/05
2.2
2.2
3.5
4.9
6.0
6.0
8.4
11/14/05
2.2
2.2
3.3
4.5
5.3
5.3
6.4
5.6
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
5
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
M2
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
6700
6600
6500
6400
6300
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
M2
To the average
of four weeks
ending:
Compounded annual rates of change, average of four weeks ending:
11/15/04
04/18/05
3.6
05/16/05
2.9
0.7
06/13/05
2.7
0.9
02/07/05
04/18/05
05/16/05
06/13/05
07/11/05
08/22/05
09/19/05
0.2
07/11/05
3.1
1.8
2.2
3.8
08/22/05
3.2
2.2
2.6
3.7
4.6
09/19/05
3.4
2.6
3.1
4.0
4.8
4.2
10/17/05
3.8
3.3
4.0
4.9
5.7
5.6
7.1
11/14/05
3.8
3.3
4.0
4.8
5.4
5.2
6.0
6.5
Research Division
6
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Yields on Selected Securities
Averages of Daily Figures
Percent
8
7
6
Corporate Aaa
5
Prime Rate
4
2-Year Swap
3
Commercial Paper
2
1
Nov
Oct
Sep
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Oct
Nov
2005
Percent
5
10-Year Treasury
4
|
|
|
|
3
Intended Federal Funds Rate
3-Month Treasury
|
|
|
2
Federal Funds Rate
1
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
2005
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
7
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
10-Year Treasury Note Yield
Averages of Daily Figures
Percent
6
5
4
3
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2005
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2005
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
May
Jun
2005
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2004
10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield
Averages of Daily Figures
Percent
4
3
2
1
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
2004
10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield Spread
Averages of Daily Figures
Percent
4
3
2
1
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Research Division
8
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Rates on Federal Funds Futures Contracts
Daily Data
Percent
4.4
Jan 2006
4.2
Dec 2005
4.0
Nov 2005
3.8
3.6
3.4
Intended Target Rate
3.2
3.0
2.8
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Nov
Oct
2005
Rates on Federal Funds Futures on Selected Dates
Percent
4.7
4.6
Week Ending:
09/27/05
10/26/05
11/23/05
4.5
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.1
4.0
3.9
Nov 2005
Dec 2005
Jan 2006
Feb 2006
Mar 2006
Apr 2006
Contract Month
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
9
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ Composite
Averages of Daily Figures
Closing Price
February 5, 1971 = 100
11500
2300
Dow Jones (left scale)
10750
2150
10000
2000
NASDAQ (right scale)
9250
1850
8500
1700
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
Jun
May
2004
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Wilshire 5000 and Standard & Poor's 500
Averages of Daily Figures
January 2, 1980 = 1078.29
1941-43 = 10
12500
1250
S&P* (right scale)
12000
1200
11500
1150
Wilshire** (left scale)
11000
1100
10500
1050
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
*Copyright 2003 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Standard & Poor's including its subsidiary corporations ("S&P") is a division of
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Reproduction of this data in any form is prohibited without S&P's prior written permission.
**Source: Wilshire Associates Incorporated, www.wilshire.com
Research Division
10
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Crude Oil Spot Prices
West Texas Intermediate, Averages of Daily Figures
Dollars per barrel
70
66
62
58
54
50
46
42
38
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Oct
Sep
Nov
2005
Crude Oil Futures Prices
West Texas Intermediate
Dollars per barrel
61
60
11/23/2005
59
11/16/2005
58
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2006
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
11
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Natural Gas Spot Prices
Henry Hub, Averages of Daily Figures
Dollars per million btu
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Oct
Sep
Nov
2005
Note: Spot prices for Henry Hub were temporarily suspended from Friday, September 23, 2005, through Thursday, October 6, 2005, due to Hurricane Rita.
Natural Gas Futures Prices
Henry Hub
Dollars per million btu
14
11/16/2005
13
12
11/23/2005
11
10
Dec
2005
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2006
Research Division
12
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Trade-Weighted Exchange Rate Indexes
Averages of Daily Figures
March 1973=100
January 1987=100
100
120
95
115
Broad Index (right scale)
90
110
85
105
80
100
Major Index (left scale)
75
95
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Exchange Rates
Averages of Daily Figures
Euro/US$
Yen/US$
0.95
120
0.90
116
Japan (right scale)
0.85
112
0.80
108
Euro (left scale)
0.75
104
0.70
100
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
13
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Currency Component of M1
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
720
710
700
690
680
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Savings and Small Time Deposits
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
Billions of dollars
980
4100
960
4000
940
3900
920
3800
900
3700
880
3600
860
3500
Savings (right scale)
840
3400
820
3300
Small Time (left scale)
800
3200
780
3100
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Research Division
14
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Large Time Deposits and Retail Money Funds
Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
Billions of dollars
1350
1050
1300
1000
1250
950
1200
900
Large Time (left scale)
1150
850
1100
800
1050
750
Retail Money (right scale)
1000
700
950
650
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Nov
Oct
Sep
2005
Total Borrowings from Federal Reserve Banks
Averages of Daily Figures
Billions of dollars
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
15
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Bank Loans and Credit
All Commercial Banks in the United States, Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
Billions of dollars
7600
5900
7400
5700
7200
5500
7000
5300
Bank Credit (left scale)
6800
5100
6600
4900
Loans and Leases (right scale)
6400
4700
Nov
Oct
Sep
Dec
Feb
Jan
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Commercial and Industrial Loans
Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
Billions of dollars
1050
600
1025
575
1000
550
975
525
950
500
All Banks (left scale)
925
475
Large Banks (right scale)
900
450
875
425
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Research Division
16
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Commercial Paper of Nonfinancial Companies
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
Sep
Nov
Oct
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
2004
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
2005
Commercial Paper of Financial Companies
Not Seasonally Adjusted
Billions of dollars
1500
1450
1400
1350
1300
1250
1200
1150
Sep
Nov
Oct
2004
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2005
Research Division
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
17
updated through
11/25/05
U.S. Financial Data
Interest Rates
Percent
Sep
Oct
Nov
2-Year
Interest
Corporate Corporate Municipal
Rate Swap Aaa Bonds Baa Bonds
Bonds
Federal
Funds
3-Month
Treasury
Bill
2-Year
Treasury
Securities
5-Year
Treasury
Securities
10-Year
Treasury
Securities
20-Year
Treasury
Securities
4.18
3.55
3.43
3.87
3.94
4.09
4.36
4.26
3.51
3.42
3.86
3.93
4.13
4.44
6.03
4.30
3.49
3.40
3.91
3.98
4.19
4.53
5.17
6.06
4.30
3.65
3.44
3.97
4.03
4.23
4.56
5.21
6.12
4.39
3.77
3.44
4.11
4.13
4.30
4.59
30-Day
Comm.
Paper
90-Day
CDs
2
3.54
3.81
4.24
4.95
5.84
9
3.55
3.77
4.21
5.05
5.96
16
3.61
3.84
4.26
5.13
23
3.70
3.91
4.33
30
3.72
3.99
4.50
7
3.74
4.05
4.60
5.25
6.19
4.40
3.85
3.53
4.20
4.24
4.37
4.64
14
3.79
4.10
4.66
5.35
6.29
4.51
3.68
3.66
4.24
4.31
4.45
4.72
21
3.84
4.14
4.66
5.35
6.31
4.47
3.76
3.77
4.26
4.32
4.46
4.75
28
3.95
4.19
4.73
5.41
6.38
4.56
3.76
3.82
4.35
4.42
4.55
4.82
4
3.99
4.24
4.86
5.48
6.44
4.63
3.94
3.87
4.44
4.51
4.61
4.89
11
3.98
4.27
4.89
5.47
6.43
4.61
4.00
3.88
4.46
4.52
4.60
4.89
18
3.98
4.32
4.86
5.39
6.37
4.52
3.98
3.92
4.43
4.46
4.52
4.81
25 *
4.04
4.35
4.78
5.34
6.34
.
4.00
3.87
4.36
4.37
4.45
4.77
*Averages of rates available
Money Stock and Components
Reserves and Base
Billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted
Billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted
Oct
Nov
Savings
Large
Time
Retail
Money
Adjusted
Monetary
Base
Adjusted
Reserves
M2
MZM
Currency
Small
Time
3
6622.5
6797.7
716.4
946.4
3568.5
1320.6
710.8
Aug 31
812.889
96.115
10
6610.8
6780.4
715.8
947.8
3596.3
1337.3
709.8
Sep 14
810.746
96.615
17
6635.8
6815.5
715.7
949.5
3626.4
1337.2
712.5
28
821.024
100.25
24
6635.7
6812.8
716.6
952.2
3588.9
1342.4
718.6
12
813.254
95.251
26
816.615
96.342
9
811.957
96.295
23
818.115
.
31
6632.4
6808.3
716.9
954.3
3573.3
1344.6
721.2
7
6645.4
6805.0
716.7
956.5
3611.0
1337.9
721.6
14
6632.1
6794.6
718.0
959.0
3595.5
1345.2
721.0
Bank Loans and Credit
Oct
Nov
Exchange Rates
Billions of dollars, seasonally adjusted
Oct
Nov
Broad
Major
Exchange
Rate:
Exchange Exchange
Rate Index Rate Index
Euro/$
Bank
Credit
Loans and
Leases
C&I
Loans
(All)
C&I
Loans
(Large)
Comm.
Paper
(nsa)
Total
Borrowings
12
7398.5
5327.6
1030.5
507.0
147.5
0.269
14
85.2
111.9
0.832
114.4
19
7425.0
5337.4
1032.2
507.3
149.1
0.226
21
85.5
112.1
0.835
115.5
26
7415.5
5351.1
1032.1
508.0
152.9
0.222
28
85.0
111.8
0.828
115.3
2
7398.1
5341.3
1031.3
508.2
163.0
0.154
4
85.8
112.1
0.835
117.0
9
7410.2
5343.5
1031.3
507.7
166.1
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86.7
112.8
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117.6
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Nov
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167.2
0.152
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87.3
113.1
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119.0
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167.4
0.118
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86.8
112.8
0.851
119.0
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Definitions
M1: The sum of currency held outside the vaults of depository
institutions, Federal Reserve Banks, and the U.S. Treasury; travelers
checks; and demand and other checkable deposits issued by financial
institutions (except demand deposits due to the Treasury and depository
institutions), minus cash items in process of collection and Federal
Reserve float.
M2: M1 plus savings deposits (including money market deposit
accounts) and small-denomination (less than $100,000) time deposits
issued by financial institutions; and shares in retail money market mutual
funds (funds with initial investments of less than $50,000), net of
retirement accounts.
M3: M2 plus large-denomination ($100,000 or more) time deposits;
repurchase agreements issued by depository institutions; Eurodollar
deposits, specifically, dollar-denominated deposits due to nonbank
U.S. addresses held at foreign offices of U.S. banks worldwide and all
banking offices in Canada and the United Kingdom; and institutional
money market mutual funds (funds with initial investments of $50,000
or more).
Notes
Cover Page: Economic forecasts are median responses from the
Thomson Financial Weekly Economic Survey, which is sent out to 20
to 25 Wall Street economists each week (usually on Tuesday). These
forecasts are released on Friday—at which time, Thursday’s USFD
cover page will be updated.
Page 3: Adjusted Monetary Base equals the sum of currency in
circulation outside Federal Reserve Banks and the U.S. Treasury,
deposits of depository financial institutions at Federal Reserve Banks,
and an adjustment for the effects of changes in statutory reserve
requirements on the quantity of base money held by depositories.
This series is a spliced chain index; see Anderson and Rasche (1996a,
1996b, 2001, 2003).
Page 4: Adjusted Reserves is defined as the sum of vault cash and
Federal Reserve Bank deposits held by depository institutions and an
adjustment for the effects of changes in statutory reserve requirements
on the quantity of base money held by depositories. This series, a
spliced chain index, is numerically larger than the Board of Governors’
measure, which excludes vault cash not used to satisfy statutory reserve
requirements and Federal Reserve Bank deposits used to satisfy required
clearing balance contracts; see Anderson and Rasche (1996a, 2001,
2003).
Page 5: MZM includes the zero maturity, or immediately available,
components of M3. MZM equals M2 minus small-denomination time
deposits, plus institutional money market mutual funds (that is, the
money market mutual funds included in M3 but excluded from M2).
The label MZM, or “Money, Zero Maturity,” was coined by William
Poole (1991) for this aggregate, proposed earlier by Motley (1988).
Readers are cautioned that since early 1994 the level and growth of
M1 have been depressed by retail sweep programs that reclassify
transactions deposits (demand deposits and other checkable deposits)
as savings deposits overnight, thereby reducing banks’ required
reserves; see Anderson and Rasche (2001) and
research.stlouisfed.org/aggreg/swdata.html.
Page 7: Current data appear in the Federal Reserve Board’s H.15
release, except for the Intended Federal Funds Rate. Federal Funds
Rate represents seven-day averages for the week ending two days
earlier than the date shown in the release.
Page 8: 10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield is the most
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recently issued inflation-indexed bond of 10-year original maturity.
10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield Spread equals the difference between the yield on the most recently issued 10-year inflationindexed bond and the unadjusted 10-Year Treasury Note Yield of
similar maturity.
Page 9: Rates on Federal Funds Futures Contracts trace through
time the yield on three specific contracts. Rates on Federal Funds
Futures on Selected Dates displays a single day’s snapshot of yields
for contracts expiring in the months shown on the horizontal axis.
Page 11: Crude Oil (West Texas intermediate) spot and futures prices
are listed in the Wall Street Journal. Spot Prices are weekly averages
of daily prices; Futures Prices are usually taken on Wednesday.
Page 12: Natural Gas (Henry Hub) spot and futures prices are listed
in the Wall Street Journal. Spot Prices are weekly averages of daily
prices; Futures Prices are usually taken on Wednesday.
Page 13: Data appear in the Federal Reserve Board’s H.10 release.
The Major Index comprises 7 currencies. The Broad Index comprises
the Major Index plus 19 additional currencies. Further details may
be found at www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/summary/.
Page 14: Data appear in the Federal Reserve Board’s H.6 release.
Savings Deposits is the sum of money market deposit accounts and
passbook and statement savings. Small Time Deposits have a minimum
initial maturity of 7 days. Savings deposits and small time deposits
are at all depository institutions.
Page 15: Data appear in the Federal Reserve Board’s H.6 release.
Large Time Deposits are deposits of $100,000 or more. Retail Money
Funds are included in M2. Retail money funds were originally called
general purpose and broker/ dealer money market funds. Large time
deposits and retail money funds are at all depository institutions.
As of January 9, 2003, Total Borrowings includes primary, secondary,
and seasonal credit. Prior to that, borrowings include seasonal,
adjustment, and extended credit.
Page 16: Data appear in the Federal Reserve Board’s H.8 release.
Bank Loans and Credit include foreign-related institutions. Bank
Credit includes loans and leases and securities. All Banks includes
foreign-related institutions. Large Banks are domestically chartered
banks (adjusted for mergers) and report on a weekly basis.
Page 17: Current data appear at
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/cp/table1.htm.
Page 18: Treasury Security yields are Treasury constant maturities
as reported in the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System’s H.15 release.
The 3-Month Treasury Bill yield is the secondary market yield from
the H.15 release. Federal Funds represents seven-day averages for
the week ending two days earlier than the date shown in the table.
Municipal Bonds represents Bond Buyer’s Average Index of 20
municipal bonds, Thursday data.
Sources
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Monetary aggregates and components: H.6 release. Bank credit: H.8
release. Total Borrowings: H.4.1 release. Interest rates: H.15
release. Exchange rates: H.10 release. Commercial paper: Board
of Governors web site.
Chicago Board of Trade
Federal funds futures contract.
Dow Jones Indexes
Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adjusted monetary base, adjusted reserves, and MZM.
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NASDAQ Stock Market, Incorporated
NASDAQ Composite®.
Standard & Poor’s
Standard & Poor’s 500 composite index.
U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. inflation-indexed security yields.
____ and ____(2001). “Retail Sweep Programs and Bank Reserves,
1994-1999,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review,
January/February, pp. 51-72.
____ and ____ , with Jeffrey Loesel (2003). “A Reconstruction of the
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base and
Reserves,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review,
September/October, 85(5), pp. 39-70.
Wall Street Journal
Oil (West Texas intermediate) and natural gas (Henry Hub) spot
and futures prices.
Motley, Brian (1988). “Should M2 Be Redefined?” Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco Economic Review, Winter, pp. 33-51.
Wilshire Associates Incorporated (www.wilshire.com)
Wilshire 5000 ®.
Poole, William (1991). Statement before the Subcommittee on
Domestic Monetary Policy of the Committee on Banking, Finance
and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, November 6,
1991. Government Printing Office, Serial No. 102-82.
References
Anderson, Richard G. and Robert H. Rasche (1996a). “A Revised
Measure of the St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base,” Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, March/April, 78(2), pp. 3-13.
Note: Articles from this Bank’s Review are available on the Internet
at research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/.
____ and ____(1996b). “Measuring the Adjusted Monetary Base in
an Era of Financial Change,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Review, November/ December, 78(6), pp. 3-37.
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