Not for Publication decotooiled after siz months. H.lU March 8, 1956 CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

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1 Not for Publication decotooiled after siz months H.lU March 8, 1956 CAPITAL MARKET DEVELOPMENTS Large security issues offered for new capital during the week ending March 2 represented State and local government financing only,- and totaled $153 million. Corporations are expected to float 0123 million of large public issues this week, and State and local governments are scheduled to offer $59 million. There has been a substantial increase over the past week in the volume of large public issues scheduled to be offered by corporations during the remainder of the. month; as a result, the March estimate of total corporate new capital issues has been raised to $900 million as may be seen in Exhibit D. Bond yields - Yields on State and local government Aaa and revenue bonds and on U. S. Government long-term (old series) obligations rose slightly last week. Other bond yields remained stable. Daily figures show an increase in the Treasuiy obligation yields during the first part of this week. Yields on newly-offered electric utility bond issues with Aa-rating are currently three basis points above, and those with A-rating are three basis points below, yields on outstanding bonds of corresponding quality and similar terms as shorn in Exhibit G. In mid-february the offering yield on an A-rated bond was eight basis points below the seasoned.yields. Stock prices - Stock prices, as measured by the SEC index of 265 common stocks, rose to a new high of 27k.5 in the week ending March 2, in an average trading volume of 2.8 million shares a day. According to daily indexes, prices increased moderately on Monday and decreased very slightly on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. State and Local Government Security Offerings in 1955 State and local governments offered $6.0 billion of longterm security^issues in 1955, compared to $7.0 billion of such financing int.95u, as shown in the attached table. As in the previous year, the major type of issuing authority in 1955 was State governments which floated $1.U billion of issues, #600 million less than in 195U«Municipal and special authority offerings were also down substantially from the 195U volume. On the other hand the volume of school district and county and township issues increased.

2 H. lit -2- Long-Term Security Issues of State and Local Governments (In millions of dollars) k J Issuing authority: State 1,W8 2,Ok County and tornship U72 kk Municipality 1,313 1,601 1, School district 1, k 537 Special authority 1,097 1,163 2,091 1,305 Unidentified l/ 68} 587 5k3 6lU Total 5,976 6,969 5,558 k,klo Purpose of issue: New capital total 5,911 &T89 hhzl kj096 Schools 1,516 1,132 1, Highways, bridges, tunnels 1,362 2,136 1, Residential buildings 570 U h2k Hospitals and institutions Sewer and water k 6U7 U19 Misc. public service enterprises Recreation ill 58 k5 2k Port and airport k9 60 Veterans aid lkl 100 Industrial buildings u Other kk 28 3 Unidentified 1/ 680 5# 5U2 61k Refunding k Total 5,976 6,969 5,558 k,klo Type of issue: General obligation 1,109 3,72k 3,123 2,9k7 Revenue 1,732 3,21k 1,567 l,k63 General revenue 2/ Total 5,976 6,969 5,558 k,klo J./ Issues of less than >500,000 not further classified. 2/ Total of issues with proceeds of ys million or over. Note. Details may not add to totals because of rounding. Source Bond Buyer and Federal Reserve.

3 H.lU -3- Purpose New capital issues totaled $5*9 billion in 1955# 13 per cent less than in the year earlier but still the second largest volume.on record. Refunding accounted for slightly more than one per cent of total offerings last year. Most of the decline in State and local government security offerings last year occurred in highway, bridge and tunnel issues, which dropped from 2.1 billion to $1.4 billion reflecting a smaller number of toll road issues. "Only one toll highway issue of over tloo million was offered in 1955 compared with six in 1954* Miscellaneous public service enterprise offerings were also considerably less than in 1954, totaling $170 million in contrast to ' almost $600 million. However, most of this difference can be accounted for by the $335 million issue which the New York State Power Authority floated in December 195*4 School construction issues are among the few groups of offerings which have shorn a steady increase in volume since Proceeds from such issues grew to $1.5 billion in 1955, from $1.4 billion in 1954 and $1,0 billion in Offerings for other purposes were generally at about the same level as in the three earlier years. Type The volume of revenue issues and its relationship to total volume was much smaller in 1955 than in the previous year $1.7 billion or 29 per cent in contrast to 33-2 billion or 46 per cent in 1954 but near that of This was the result of the heavy volume of toll road issues floated in 1954 but not in 1952, 1953 or 1955* General revenue issues increased $100 million from 1954 to 1955» but the volume did not approach that of 1953 when almost 3570 million of such issues were floated. More detailed information concerning recent capital market developments is presented in the attached exhibits. Business Finance and Capital Markets Section, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

4 EXHIBIT A HIGH-GRADE BOND YIELDS CORPORATE Aao U. S. GOVERNMENT-I GOVERNMENT Aao jj U. S. Govt.,.long-term g/" Spread between State and U. S. Govt. local govt. (old series) and Aaa 3/ Corporate Aaa 1/ Old series New series 3-U2 (6/19) 3.15 (6/6) 2.99 (1/9) 2.78 (12/2i 3.09 (1/8) 2.7U (1/9) 2.85 (U/23) 2.B (8/7) 3.17 (12/23) 2.9k (8/5) 2.91 (1/7) 2.62 (1/7) 3.1U (1/6) 2.90 (1/6) 3.07 (3/2) 2.80 (2/17) :8 (Per cent) 3.03 (8/5) 2.89 (6/10) 2.96 (1/6) 2.92 (2/3) IS 2.9U CorporateIstate i Aaa [local Aaa 2.73 (6/25).38 8lt 1.98 (1/8) (6/10) U (9/2) U (9/8) 3U (5/26).13 5U 2.29 (1/5) (2/23) * h / Weekly average of daily figures. Average term of bonds included is ^ 2/ Weekly averages of daily figures. The old series includes fully taxable, marketable 2 1/2 per cent bonds due or first callable after 12 years through September 1955, and those due or callable in years thereafter; the average term to first call of the bonds included declined ftom Hi years in early 1953 to 11 1/2 years in early The new series is comprised of the 3 per cent bond of 1995 and the 3 1/h per cent bond of * V Thursday figures. Only general obligation bonds are included; average term Ts 20 years. Note. Highs and lows are for individual series and may be on different dates for different series.

5 LOWER-GRADE BOND YIELDS Per cent per annum CORPORATE Boo ' t i l STATE AND LOCAL GOVT. Boo I - I STATE AND LOCAL GOVT. REVENUE Dow-Jon \W-L-I Date Corporate Baa 1/ State and local govt. Baa 2/ State and local govt, rev. 3/. - (Per cent) High Low 195U - High 1955 " High High Low February 3 February 10 February 17 February 2ii March (9A8) 3-50 (1/2) 3.7k (1/8) 3.UU (12/31) 3.63 (12/30) 3.U5 (I/Hi) 3.62 (1/6) 3-58 (3/2) i $ (6/25) 2.96 (1/8) 3-32 (1/7) 2.93 (8/5) 3.26 (12/29) 3.02 (1/6) 3.26 (1/5) 3.20 (3/1) fi cr n t*p<s (6/26) 2.71 (1/2) 3.00 (1/1) 2.72 (8/13) 2.99 (12/30) 2.76 (1/7) 2.9k (1/6) 2.89 (2/2U) Averai?e term of bonds included is years. _ 2/ Thursday figures. Only general obligation uonds are included; average term is 20 years.. V Friday figures. Average rating of bonds included is between Baa and Aj average term is 20 years- Note. Highs and lows are for individual series and may be on different dates for different series.

6 1/ SEC index of 265 common stocks, weekly closing prices, ; converted to 19U7-li9*100 by Federal Reserve. The conversion factor is " 2/ Averages of daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange. 1/ Moody's 200 common stocks; end of month figures. TxJ Bid of month figures for member firms of the New York Stock Exchange which carry margin.accounts; excludes balances secured by U. S. Government obligations. 5/ Wednesday figures for weekly reporting member banks. Excludes loans for purchasing or carrying U. S. Government securities at banks in New York and Chicago. Weekly reporting banks account for about 72 per cent of loans to others. Note. Highs and lows are for individual series and may be on different dates for different series. STOCK MARKET Date Stock price index 1/ - Trading 1. Common volume 2/ stock (millions lyields 3/ of shares)1(per cent) Stock market customer, credit Customers' Bank debit balances loans to V "others" 5/ (Millions of dollars) High (1/2) M5 1,665 / 780 1W.0 (9/18) ,055 1,31U 66U 195k - High- 221.lt (12/31) ,136. 2,388 1, (1/6) 1.U ii.20 2,105 1, High (12/30) 1*.6 h.22 U,030 2,805 1,2U1 Low 217.U (1/1U) ,537 2,517 1, High (3/2) 2.8 U.08 1,267 Low 257.h (1/20) n.a. n.a. 1,214 January U.08 U,0U0 2,786 1,25U February February lt 2.1 1,252' February 2h ,2U9 March 2 27U n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.

7 H.lk Exhibit D Corporate and State and Local Government Security Offerings and Placements (In millions of dollars) Net; capital Corporate State and local k k January e/735 5k6. Shi e/koo 5# 396 February e/675 1x36 k26 e/ kll March e/900 1, e/l25 5# 565 April k9k. k97 k27 73k May k8. June 697 8U2 Shi. 853, July h August 65k 335 2k9 261 September 680 7k7 k06 6k9 October - 1,207 y 1, k November k23 December k st quarter e/2,310 2,213 1,608 e/l,k75 1,385 1,372 2nd" quarter 2,09k 1,995 1,U18 2,33k 3rd quarter 1,917 1,991 1,12k 1,138 kth quarter " 2,760 1,896 1,98k 1,89k Year 9,01k 7,k90 " 5,911 6,789 Excluding finance companies 2/ 1st quarter e/1,810 1,791 1,527 2nd quarter 1,912 1,927 3rd quarter l,kkl 1,911 kth quarter 2,619 1,792 Year 7,762 7,158 1/ Includes $637*2 million AT&T convertible debenture issue..2/ Total new capital issues excluding offerings of sales and personal finance companies. "Note. Details may not add to totals due to rounding.

8 H.1U Exhibit E Large Public Security Issues for New Capital (Other than U. S. Treasury) 1/ Proceeds of Large Issues Offered (Millions of dollars). Month Corporate State and local government Other 2/ February March April May k June 175 U03 July August Uo5 65. September U October November December January February 212 U33 Large Individual Issues Offered February 1 through March 2 Amount Coupon Issuer Type 3/ (millions rate or Maturity of tret interdollars) est cost CORPORATE Offering yield Rating Northwestern Bell Telephone Deb A 3.15 Aai Reynolds Metals Pfd. stk. lio.o Chemical Corn Exchange Bank stk So. Calif. Edison Pfd. stk M. Lowenstein & Sons Conv. sub. ebb L 3/8 U.38 Ba Hoppers Co., Inc. Com. stk Tennessee Gas Transmission Pfd. stk 1*0.0 STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Public Housing Auth. New Orleans, Louisiana ,10 A Aaa A P

9 H.lU E-2 Large Individual Issues Offered February 1 through March 2 (Cont'd).. Issuer Type 3/ STATS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Cont'd) Amount (millions Maturity of dollars) Coupon rate or net interest cost Offering yield Rating Metropolitan Water Dist. of So. Calif. Lubbock, Texas. New York State Thruway Chicago, Illinois Puerto Rico Los Angeles, Calif. Montgomery Co., Md. Indianapolis, Ind. Rochester, New York Weber Basin "Water Cons. District/ Utah Fort Worth, Texas Connecticut' Expressway Los Angeles Co., Calif. State of California ' San Antonio, Texas Rev. t.o.-rev. G.R. Rev. Rev..O.-Rev. Rev U *h 5-U U ,, ^' ,, / h U hi k 2.7U UO / & Aa A Aaa A Aa Baa Aaa Aaa A A Aa Aa- Baa OTHER " l/lncludes corporate and other security offerings of 315 million and over; State - *and local government security offerings of $5 million and over. 2!/ Includes foreign government and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development issues. 3/ In the case of State and local government securities, denotes general obligation; Rev., revenue bonds; G.R., general obligations additionally se- cured by facilities revenues; L.L., limited liability obligations secured trypledge of designated revenues. h/ 1981t-86 maturities not reoffered.!>/ Not publicly reoffered. 6/ 1982 maturities not reoffered.

10 H.lU Exhibit F. Forthcoming Large Public Security Offerings for New Capital (Other than U. S. Treasury) 1/ Expected Proceeds ft-om Forthcoming Large Issues Date of. computation During month following date shorn Corporate State and other 2/ local govt. ' - Subsequent to date shown Corporate State and l Qther 2/ local govt Feb U 1,395 1,978 Mar ,009 Apr , ,917 Hay ,861 June hh 830 1,816 July 29 U ,135 2,018 Aug U 920 1,971 Sept it ,205 Oct U12 1,650 Nov Dec Jan , Feb Issuer Forthcoming Large Offerings, as of March 2 Type Amount (millions of dollars) Approximate date of offering CORPORATE Bell.Telephone of Pennsylvania Deb March 6 Westcoast Transmission, Ltd." Sub. deb March 7 Houston Lighting and Power 1st mtg. bds.' 30.0 March 7 Fruehauf Trailer Co. Conv. sub. deb March 7 ttwhirlpool-seeger SF deb March 20 *Tide Water Associated Oil SF deb March 20 New York Telephone Ref. mtg. bds April 30 Southern California Gas Mtg. bds. ho.o May Sheraton Corporation of America Deb *Scott Paper Conv. deb STATE AND LOCAL"GOVERNMENT Penn Tom ship School District, Pa. St. Louis, Missouri Santa Clara, California Denver, Colorado, School Dist. #1 Bethlehem Authority, Pa. L.L. Rev March 6 March 6 March 6 March 7 March 8

11 H.lU F-2 Forthcoming Large Offerings, as of March 2 (Cont'd) Issuer STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Cont'd) Type Amount (millions of dollars) Approximate date of offering State of Alabama L.L March lit State of Mew Hampshire 19.3 March 15 San Diego, California Rev. 6.0 March 15 -Kiilwaukee, Wisconsin 8.0 March 20 -estate of New Mexico 5-0. March 20 Dallas,.Texas 8.5 March 26 -Washington State Toll Bridge Auth. Rev. 9.3 March 27 * Lexandria, Louisiana Rev. 8.3 March 29 Inter-American Center Auth., Fla. Rev March Georgia Rural Roads Authority- Rev May Florida State Turnpike Authority Late spring Oklahoma Turnpike Authority-. Rev Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Rev #56 Washington State Toll Bridge Auth. Rev Salt River Project, Arizona n.a None OTHER * Included in table for first time. n.a. Mot available. - 1/ Includes corporate and other issues of >15 million and over; State and local"government issues of! jnillion and over. 2/ Includes foreign government and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development issues.

12 Date Exhibit G Yields on New and Outstanding Electric Power Bonds, Rated Aa"and A 1/ Aa-rated offering yields. A-rated offering yields Actual I Amount above Actual I Amount above (per cent), [seasoned yields (per cent) (seasoned yields (basis points) ((basis points) 1952 average average 3-U U average average January * None February *3.1U 7 * March * U April None May * iu June * * July None None August None * September * *3.# 23 October * November * None ' ' December * None January None * None February c/ ' ~ -3 ' / Covers only 30-year first mortgage bonds, as reported in Moody's Bond Survey. Except where indicated, the actual yield figure and the amount above seasoned yields are averages of offerings during the indicated period and of the differences between these new offering yields and yields on seasoned issues of similar quality for the same day. The number of new issues included in the monthly averages varies from 2 to h except for October 195U when 6 A-rated issues were included. Average maturity for"the seasoned issues varies from 26 to 28 years. c/ Corrected.