Calendar of Releases. Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases. Housing Starts (Jun) Building Permits (Jun) CPI (Jun)

Similar documents
Calendar of Releases. Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases. Retail Sales (Sep) Business Inventories (Aug) PPI (Sep)

Calendar of Releases. Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases. September 27. New Home Sales (Aug) A: 1050K P: 1045K

Nearly all central banks, other than those that peg

As the figure s top panel shows, U.S. 10-year

As the figure s top panel shows, U.S. 10-year

MonetaryTrends. September 2013

MonetaryTrends. April 2013

On December 12, 2007, the Federal Reserve and four

MonetaryTrends. August 2012

With short-term interest rates at historic lows

After persistent decreases in the federal funds rate

Fluctuations in the price of oil and other apparently nonmonetary

All National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

MonetaryTrends. What is the slope of the yield curve telling us?

The financial press often links daily activity in financial

When stock market risk, or volatility, increases,

Despite the fact that the Federal Open Market

On November 14, 2007, the Federal Open Market

Recently, financial commentators and central bankers

MonetaryTrends. 30-Year Bond Faces Uncertain Future

Since the summer of 2007, financial market turmoil

Irving Fisher ( ), one of America s greatest

On October 14, 2008, the U.S. Treasury announced

The LIBOR-OIS spread has been a closely watched

In its response to the worsening financial crisis during

MonetaryTrends. September 11, November 2001

1 More information about the golden dollar can be found at 2 About 41 million SBAs were minted in As of December 31, 1999,

Bank loans to businesses typically fall during recessions

Despite the increasing use of electronic payments and

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports two

Incoming economic data this year have been encouraging,

Unless something is done, the United States faces the

The current housing crisis has been long and severe.

Mortgage loans are typically classified as either

Economic historians have long noted a high correlation

MonetaryTrends. e-cash

Paul Samuelson, who turns 90 on May 15, won the

Fundamental issues about bank size and the systemic

Emerging signs of stronger economic activity and the

Economists have often puzzled over the costs of inflation.

Increasing yet still much-debated evidence indicates the worst

There has been considerable discussion of the possibility

With the tax filing season in full swing, these summary

The relatively slow growth of employment has

The Federal Reserve has set the target range for the federal

House prices in the United States were 14.1 percent

Individual households and firms, as well as local, state,

On October 4, 2006, President Bush signed the

The chorus from Travis s 1947 song about the

Sharp declines in home prices, followed by a financial

In the past three decades, the share of foreign-born

Since the financial crisis began in mid-2007, media

In 2010, the first of the Baby Boom generation will

Recently the Federal Open Market Committee

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Real GDP Growth Compounded annual rates of change. Consumer Price Index Percent change

ncia THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS:

The effect that housing has on the economy has received

The U.S. economy s remarkable resilience in the face

NationalEconomicTrends

Many analysts have argued that a housing boom preceded

THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS:

Policymakers at the Federal Reserve wage preemptive

THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS:

The U.S. economy has experienced sustained trend

Trade and international capital flows have grown rapidly

For over a decade, the Heritage Foundation and the

tf:s. Financial Data

NationalEconomicTrends

ctrends Nominal Vs. Real Wage Growth Growth of Wages Percent Change From Year Ago August 1997

NationalEconomicTrends

IETSupplement. Cross-CountryComparison. August 2008

IETSupplement. Cross-CountryComparison. May 2008

IETSupplement. Cross-CountryComparison. May 2010

On September 21, 2007, the Canadian dollar nicknamed

InternationalEconomicTrends

Week ending: January 28, 1981

NationalEconomicTrends

Week ending: August 3, 1977

The U.S. trade deficit the excess of imports over

InternationalEconomicTrends

Since launching the euro in 1999, the European Central

Single-family home sales and construction are not expected to regain 2005 peaks

NationalEconomicTrends

March 22, 1990 THE FEDERAL A RESERVE. JSk llvnkof. or ST.1IM1S

The labor force participation rate (LFPR) is the ratio of

Investment OVERVIEW: 4 TH QUARTER 2017 DA N A LIMITED VOLATILITY BOND STRATEGY.

THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS:

THE CONFERENCE BOARD LEADING ECONOMIC INDEX (LEI) FOR GERMANY AND RELATED COMPOSITE ECONOMIC INDEXES FOR FEBRUARY

Economic Outlook June Economic Policy Division

THE CONFERENCE BOARD LEADING ECONOMIC INDEX (LEI) FOR GERMANY AND RELATED COMPOSITE ECONOMIC INDEXES FOR JANUARY

Week ending: December 17, 1975

THE WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS:

Common stock prices 1. New York Stock Exchange indexes (Dec. 31,1965=50)2. Transportation. Utility 3. Finance

Economic Outlook June Economic Policy Division

Nonfarm Payroll Employment

The First Phase of the U.S. Recovery and Beyond

FOR RELEASE: 10:00 A.M. AEST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2010

Monthly Mutual Fund Report

FOR RELEASE: 10:00 A.M. AEST, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009

Transcription:

USFinancialData July 12, 2007 Advance Edition MONDAY* July 9 Consumer Credit (May) A: $12.9B PF: $6.5B Calendar of Releases Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases. TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY* FRIDAY July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 Initial Claims (7/7) Retail Sales (Jun) A: 308K PF: 316K A: N/A PF: 0.1% Treasury Budget (Jun) Business Inventories (May) A: $27.5B PF: $31.0B A: N/A PF: 0.3% International Trade (May) A: -$60.0B PF: -$60.0B Import Prices (Jun) A: N/A PF: 0.5% July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 PPI (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 0.1% Core PPI (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 0.2% Industrial Production (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 0.4% Capacity Utilization (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 81.5% Latest Issue Monetary Trends Housing Starts (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 1.45M Building Permits (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 1.48M CPI (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 0.2% Core CPI (Jun) CF: N/A PF: 0.2% Initial Claims (7/14) CF: N/A PF: 315K FOMC Minutes (previous meeting) July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 Existing Home Sales (Jun) CF: N/A Current Economic Conditions (Beige Book) Initial Claims (7/21) CF: N/A Durable Goods (Jun) CF: N/A New Home Sales (Jun) CF: N/A GDP (Q2) CF: N/A DEFINITIONS: A, actual value; PF, previous week s forecast; CF, 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, 2007. All Rights Reserved. Use, duplication, or sale of this service or the data contained herein, except as described in the Subscription Agreement, is strictly prohibited. research.stlouisfed.org

Contents Page 3 Adjusted Monetary Base 4 Adjusted Reserves 5 MZM 6 M2 7 Yields on Selected Securities 8 Yields on Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Treasury Securities 9 Federal Funds Futures Market 10 Equity Price Indices 11 Crude Oil Prices 12 Natural Gas Prices 13 Exchange Rates 14 Currency, Savings, and Small Time Deposits 15 Institutional and Retail Money Funds, and Borrowings from Federal Reserve Banks 16 Bank Loans 17 Commercial Paper 18 Reference Tables 19 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. We welcome your comments addressed to: Editor, U.S. Financial Data P.O. Box 442 St. Louis, MO 63166-0442 or to: stlsfred@stls.frb.org U.S. Financial Data is published weekly by the of the. For more information on data in this publication, please visit research.stlouisfed.org/fred2 or call (314) 444-8590. To be added to our free email notification list, please visit our web site at research.stlouisfed.org/publications/usfd.

updated through U.S. Financial Data Adjusted Monetary Base Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 855 850 845 840 835 830 Adjusted Monetary Base To the average of two maintenance periods ending: Compounded annual rates of change, average of two maintenance periods ending: 07/05/06 09/27/06 12/06/06 01/03/07 01/31/07 02/28/07 04/11/07 05/09/07 12/06/06 1.2 01/03/07 0.5-0.3 01/31/07 2.8 3.8 7.3 02/28/07 2.1 2.4 3.6 7.4 04/11/07 1.9 2.1 2.8 4.6-0.7 05/09/07 2.0 2.2 2.8 4.3 0.3 1.8 06/06/07 2.0 2.2 2.7 3.8 0.7 1.9 2.5 07/04/07 1.7 1.9 2.1 3.1 0.3 1.2 1.2 0.4 3

U.S. Financial Data updated through Adjusted Reserves Seasonally Adjusted 100 98 96 94 92 90 88 Adjusted Reserves To the average of two maintenance periods ending: Compounded annual rates of change, average of two maintenance periods ending: 07/05/06 09/27/06 12/06/06 01/03/07 01/31/07 02/28/07 04/11/07 05/09/07 12/06/06 5.6 01/03/07 1.2-0.9 01/31/07 5.0 5.9 3.2 02/28/07-4.4-8.5-20.3-20.4 04/11/07-3.2-6.0-13.0-10.9-24.1 05/09/07-2.2-4.3-9.5-7.0-16.0 5.4 06/06/07-0.1-1.3-4.7-1.6-8.0 11.1 17.1 07/04/07-0.8-2.1-5.2-2.7-8.1 6.4 7.8 7.7 4

updated through U.S. Financial Data MZM Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 7600 7500 7400 7300 7200 7100 7000 6900 MZM To the average of four weeks ending: Compounded annual rates of change, average of four weeks ending: 07/03/06 09/25/06 12/04/06 01/01/07 01/29/07 02/26/07 04/09/07 05/07/07 12/04/06 6.2 01/01/07 7.3 9.9 01/29/07 7.1 8.9 9.4 02/26/07 6.8 8.1 7.8 5.2 04/09/07 8.2 9.9 10.6 9.9 11.6 05/07/07 8.4 9.9 10.6 10.0 11.3 14.0 06/04/07 8.3 9.7 10.1 9.6 10.5 12.2 9.1 07/02/07 8.4 9.7 10.1 9.6 10.3 11.6 9.2 8.6 5

U.S. Financial Data updated through M2 Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 7300 7200 7100 7000 6900 6800 6700 M2 To the average of four weeks ending: Compounded annual rates of change, average of four weeks ending: 07/03/06 09/25/06 12/04/06 01/01/07 01/29/07 02/26/07 04/09/07 05/07/07 12/04/06 5.5 01/01/07 6.0 7.6 01/29/07 6.2 7.5 8.1 02/26/07 6.0 7.0 7.0 6.0 04/09/07 6.8 8.0 8.4 8.3 8.7 05/07/07 6.6 7.5 7.7 7.4 7.4 8.5 06/04/07 6.3 7.0 6.9 6.6 6.4 6.9 3.6 07/02/07 6.2 6.8 6.7 6.4 6.2 6.5 4.1 4.0 6

updated through U.S. Financial Data Yields on Selected Securities Averages of Daily Figures Percent 9 Prime Rate 8 7 6 Corporate Aaa 5 Commercial Paper 2-Year Swap 4 3 Percent 5.50 5.25 Federal Funds Rate Intended Federal Funds Rate 3-Month Treasury 5.00 4.75 4.50 10-Year Treasury 4.25 7

U.S. Financial Data updated through 10-Year Treasury Note Yield Averages of Daily Figures Percent 6 5 4 3 10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield Averages of Daily Figures Percent 4 3 2 1 10-Year Inflation-Indexed Treasury Yield Spread Averages of Daily Figures Percent 4 3 2 1 8

updated through U.S. Financial Data Rates on Federal Funds Futures Contracts Daily Data Percent 5.4 5.3 5.2 5.1 Intended Target Rate Jul 2007 Aug 2007 5.0 Sep 2007 4.9 4.8 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2007 Rates on Federal Funds Futures on Selected Dates Percent 5.4 Week Ending: 05/15/07 06/13/07 07/11/07 5.3 5.2 5.1 5.0 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007 Contract Month 9

U.S. Financial Data updated through Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ Composite Averages of Daily Figures Closing Price February 5, 1971 = 100 13750 2750 13000 2600 12250 2450 Dow Jones (left scale) NASDAQ (right scale) 11500 2300 10750 2150 10000 2000 Wilshire 5000 and Standard & Poor's 500 Averages of Daily Figures January 2, 1980 = 1078.29 1941-43 = 10 16000 1600 15500 1550 15000 14500 Wilshire** (left scale) 1500 1450 14000 S&P* (right scale) 1400 13500 1350 13000 1300 12500 1250 12000 *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 1200 10

updated through U.S. Financial Data Crude Oil Spot Prices West Texas Intermediate, Averages of Daily Figures Dollars per barrel 78 74 70 66 62 58 54 50 Crude Oil Futures Prices West Texas Intermediate Dollars per barrel 74.0 73.5 73.0 72.5 07/11/2007 72.0 71.5 07/03/2007 71.0 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2007 2008 11

U.S. Financial Data updated through Natural Gas Spot Prices Henry Hub, Averages of Daily Figures Dollars per million btu 9 8 7 6 5 4 Natural Gas Futures Prices Henry Hub Dollars per million btu 9.0 8.5 8.0 07/03/2007 7.5 7.0 07/11/2007 6.5 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2007 2008 12

updated through U.S. Financial Data Trade-Weighted Exchange Rate Indexes Averages of Daily Figures March 1973=100 90.0 January 1987=100 110.0 Broad Index (right scale) 87.5 107.5 85.0 105.0 Major Index (left scale) 82.5 102.5 80.0 100.0 77.5 97.5 75.0 95.0 Exchange Rates Averages of Daily Figures Euro/US$ 1.00 Yen/US$ 124 0.95 120 0.90 116 Japan (right scale) 0.85 112 0.80 108 0.75 Euro (left scale) 104 0.70 100 13

U.S. Financial Data updated through Currency Component of M1 Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 760 755 750 745 740 735 Savings and Small Time Deposits Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 1220 4900 1180 4700 1140 4500 1100 Small Time (left scale) 4300 1060 4100 1020 980 Savings (right scale) 3900 3700 940 3500 900 3300 14

updated through U.S. Financial Data Institutional and Retail Money Funds Averages of Daily Figures, Seasonally Adjusted 1500 1200 1450 1150 1400 1100 1350 1300 Institutional Money (left scale) 1050 1000 1250 950 1200 900 1150 850 1100 1050 Retail Money (right scale) 800 750 1000 700 Total Borrowings from Federal Reserve Banks Averages of Daily Figures 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 15

U.S. Financial Data updated through Bank Loans and Credit All Commercial Banks in the United States, Seasonally Adjusted 8800 7100 8600 6900 8400 8200 Bank Credit (left scale) 6700 6500 8000 6300 7800 7600 Loans and Leases (right scale) 6100 5900 7400 5700 7200 5500 Commercial and Industrial Loans Seasonally Adjusted 1275 775 1250 750 1225 725 1200 1175 All Banks (left scale) 700 675 1150 650 1125 625 1100 1075 Large Banks (right scale) 600 575 1050 550 1025 525 16

updated through U.S. Financial Data Commercial Paper of Nonfinancial Companies Not Seasonally Adjusted 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 150 140 Commercial Paper: Financial and Asset-Backed Not Seasonally Adjusted 1200 1100 Asset-Backed 1000 900 800 Financial 700 600 17

U.S. Financial Data updated through Interest Rates Percent 30-Day 2-Year 3-Month 2-Year 5-Year 10-Year 30-Year Comm. 90-Day Interest Corporate Corporate Municipal Federal Treasury Treasury Treasury Treasury Treasury Paper CDs Rate Swap Aaa Bonds Baa Bonds Bonds Funds Bill Securities Securities Securities Securities Apr 20 5.21 5.31 5.07 5.44 6.37 4.24 5.24 4.86 4.67 4.60 4.69 4.85 27 5.23 5.31 5.03 5.43 6.35 4.26 5.23 4.83 4.63 4.56 4.67 4.84 May 4 5.22 5.31 5.08 5.40 6.31 4.25 5.25 4.77 4.65 4.55 4.65 4.82 11 5.21 5.31 5.09 5.42 6.31 4.24 5.23 4.75 4.70 4.56 4.65 4.82 18 5.23 5.31 5.16 5.46 6.38 4.29 5.27 4.69 4.76 4.66 4.74 4.90 25 5.23 5.31 5.25 5.55 6.47 4.38 5.24 4.77 4.84 4.77 4.84 4.99 Jun 1 5.24 5.32 5.33 5.58 6.51 4.41 5.28 4.68 4.92 4.86 4.90 5.02 8 5.22 5.32 5.43 5.67 6.62 4.54 5.24 4.67 4.99 4.98 5.02 5.12 15 5.26 5.33 5.49 5.89 6.79 4.64 5.26 4.53 5.06 5.13 5.20 5.29 22 5.24 5.33 5.45 5.85 6.73 4.63 5.25 4.56 4.96 5.04 5.14 5.25 29 5.24 5.33 5.38 5.80 6.68 4.60 5.25 4.67 4.90 4.97 5.09 5.19 Jul 6 5.23 5.33 5.40 5.80 6.69 4.61 5.28 4.81 4.93 5.00 5.10 5.19 13 * 5.24 5.33 5.41 5.80 6.68. 5.23 4.82 4.90 4.99 5.09 5.19 *Averages of rates available Money Stock and Components, seasonally adjusted Reserves and Base, seasonally adjusted Small Retail Institutional M2 MZM Currency Time Savings Money Money Adjusted Monetary Base Adjusted Reserves May 21 7229.9 7507.1 754.4 1174.4 3831.7 855.0 1451.6 28 7227.3 7506.5 754.7 1175.9 3818.0 857.2 1455.1 Jun 4 7226.1 7508.2 754.9 1175.5 3786.2 860.3 1457.6 11 7231.6 7521.8 754.7 1175.2 3812.5 866.3 1465.4 18 7252.4 7552.7 755.1 1175.3 3854.5 869.2 1475.6 25 7259.0 7556.7 755.3 1174.0 3862.7 874.7 1471.7 Jul 2 7263.5 7580.4 756.2 1174.8 3848.1 876.8 1491.7 Apr 11 845.824 91.366 25 849.820 91.171 May 9 850.521 93.934 23 851.865 93.268 Jun 6 851.056 95.246 20 851.790 93.150 Jul 4 849.561 94.070 Bank Loans and Credit, seasonally adjusted C&I C&I Comm. Bank Loans and Loans Loans Paper Total Credit Leases (All) (Large) (nsa) Borrowings May 30 8574.1 6280.1 1242.5 590.4 173.0 0.128 Jun 6 8555.0 6269.3 1255.1 597.9 180.7 0.119 13 8587.4 6268.9 1250.7 594.1 190.5 0.146 20 8587.1 6280.5 1266.1 602.3 209.8 0.283 27 8567.2 6273.0 1257.8 593.6 201.3 0.179 Jul 4.... 188.3 0.196 11.... 198.7 0.238 Exchange Rates Major Broad Exchange Exchange Exchange Exchange Rate: Rate: Rate Index Rate Index Euro/$ Yen/$ Jun 1 78.9 104.0 0.744 121.8 8 78.6 103.9 0.743 121.5 15 79.2 104.4 0.750 122.5 22 79.1 104.1 0.745 123.7 29 78.9 104.1 0.743 123.3 Jul 6 78.1 103.3 0.734 122.7 13 * 77.8 103.0 0.730 122.6 *Averages of rates available 18

U.S. Financial Data 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 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. Retail Money Funds are included in M2. Institutional Money Funds are not part of M2; they used to be included in M3, which was discontinued as of March 23, 2006. See www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/discm3.htm. 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/outstandings.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. Adjusted monetary base, adjusted reserves, and MZM. 19

U.S. Financial Data 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. Wall Street Journal Oil (West Texas intermediate) and natural gas (Henry Hub) spot and futures prices. Wilshire Associates Incorporated (www.wilshire.com) Wilshire 5000. 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. and (2001). Retail Sweep Programs and Bank Reserves, 1994-1999, Review, January/February, pp. 51-72. and, with Jeffrey Loesel (2003). A Reconstruction of the Adjusted Monetary Base and Reserves, Review, September/October, 85(5), pp. 39-70. Motley, Brian (1988). Should M2 Be Redefined? Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review, Winter, pp. 33-51. 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. 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, Review, November/ December, 78(6), pp. 3-37. 20