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Strictly Confidential (FR)

Class I FOMC

MONETARY POLICY ALTERNATIVES

Prepared for the Federal Open Market Committee By the staff

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL CLASS I - FOMC

(FR) February 1,

1991

MONETARY POLICY ALTERNATIVES

Recent Developments

(1) Immediately after the December FOMC meeting, the discount rate was cut 1/2 percentage point and Desk operations were adjusted so that about half of this decline would show through to the federal funds rate.

Another easing step of 25 basis points was taken in early Janu-

ary, with the funds rate expected to decline to 6-3/4 percent in response to indications that the monetary aggregates were very weak at a time when the economy was continuing to exhibit considerable softness. 2

Most

recently, after the employment data for January and other indicators portrayed the economy as slackening further and inflation pressures as abating, the discount rate was lowered another 1/2 percentage point, to 6 percent, with the expectation that all of this decline would be transmitted to the federal funds rate. (2) The actual funds rate fluctuated widely around its intended levels, however, with rates as high as 100 percent and as low as zero registered during the period.

An important factor in the additional

volatility was the phase-out of the nontransaction reserve requirement, which reduced required reserve balances to levels that proved at times to be insufficient for clearing purposes--that is, to avoid overnight overdrafts.

At those times, for many banks the marginal dollar of reserve

1. The formal allowance for adjustment plus seasonal borrowing was increased $25 million as a part of this policy change. 2. The borrowing allowance was reduced $25 million, to $100 million, in this action.

balances was held to meet clearing needs, leaving banks less willing to arbitrage the funds rate across time and demanding additional excess reserves.

This phenomenon has seemed especially important in the current

maintenance period as required reserve balances reach their seasonal low. Other forces contributing to volatility in earlier maintenance periods were balance sheet maneuvering around year-end and occasional shortfalls of reserves near the ends of maintenance periods.

On a maintenance-period

average basis, the federal funds rate ranged only from a high of 7-1/4 percent in the period ended December 26 to a low of about 6-3/4 percent in the subsequent period.

So far in the current maintenance period, clearing

demands for balances have pulled the funds rate up to an average of about 7-1/4 percent. (3) The monetary policy easings and the passing of year-end were the dominant influences on other short-term credit markets over the intermeeting period.

Treasury bill rates have fallen about 75 basis

points since mid-December, somewhat less than the size of the System's easing actions.

Private money market rates are down by more, reflecting a

reduction in the pronounced risk premiums that had been built into them ahead of year-end.

Long-term markets, by contrast, were more affected by

developments surrounding the outbreak of war in the Middle East.

Prices

in bond and stock markets declined appreciably in the weeks leading up to

3. In the first eight days of the current maintenance period, adjustment plus seasonal borrowing has averaged $240 million. In general since the last meeting, borrowing has averaged well above the levels built into the reserve paths, owing to a minor degree to special situation borrowing and to a major degree to reserve shortfalls against the background of the lower required reserves and the need for additional balances to meet clearing needs.

the U.N. deadline on January 15.

Those losses were reversed in a single

day when initial reports engendered optimism that the war would be brief and have minimal impact on global oil supplies.

Broad indexes of stock

prices have risen about 4 percent on balance over the intermeeting period. Treasury bond yields, however, are down only 8 basis points since the December meeting, despite both a $6 net drop in oil prices and the System's easing actions.

Some of the stickiness in yields may reflect

concerns about upcoming supplies of Treasury securities, given upward revisions to expected federal deficits, as well as a sense that, partly because of Federal Reserve actions, the length and depth of the recession will be limited. (4) Dollar exchange rates fluctuated widely over the intermeeting period.

The dollar's weighted average exchange value rose about

3 percent from the December meeting through mid-January, primarily on the basis of safe-haven demands associated with developments in the Middle East and turmoil in the Soviet Union.

In the flush of optimism generated

by reports out of the Persian Gulf on the first day of the war, the dollar declined by 2 percent as the safe-haven effect diminished.

After drifting

lower in subsequent days, the dollar dropped sharply following the Bundesbank's 1/2 percentage point increase in its official lending rates and the next day's cut in the Federal Reserve's discount rate.

Only the Nether-

lands and Austria followed the German rate action, and short-term market rates abroad remain down about 35 basis points on average over the period, helping to limit the dollar's decline to just 1-1/4 percent on balance. Foreign long-term rates fell about 30 basis points, on average.

(5) M2 growth remained weak, at a 1-1/4 percent annual rate in January, off a bit from the 1-3/4 percent rate registered in December; this aggregate thus is running below the 4 percent rate that the Committee had expected for the November-to-March period.

The aggregate was held

down by declines in RPs and demand deposits, both of which were affected by an unusually pronounced seasonal pattern around year-end.

On the other

hand, currency increased sharply, likely owing to stepped-up shipments overseas.

M2 growth excluding these items (and Eurodollars holdings as

well) picked up to roughly a 3 percent rate in December and 3-3/4 percent in January, buoyed by narrowing opportunity costs.

Even so, growth likely

was held down by heightened concerns both about the Bank Insurance Fund, and about depository institutions generally, in the wake of the closing of privately insured banks and credit unions in Rhode Island and the failure of the Bank of New England.

Noncompetitive tenders at Treasury auctions

have been unusually strong in recent weeks, and, within M2 (as adjusted above), all the increase was accounted for by money funds, which grew at a 30 percent pace.

Core deposits remained stagnant last month, despite the

downward movement in market interest rates. (6) Although bank credit edged lower in January, M3 growth picked up to a 4 percent rate.

Over the last two months, M3 has grown at

4. The money data presented in this document reflect the results of the annual benchmark and seasonal review--discussed in Appendix A--and should be treated as confidential until their release to the public, planned for February 7. 5. The surge in currency lifted growth of the monetary base to a 16-1/4 percent rate in January. The drop in transaction balances, however, restrained M1 growth to a 1-1/4 percent pace and led to a 6 percent rate of decline in total reserves. (Reserves have been adjusted to remove the effects of the change in reserve requirements.)

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about a 2 percent average rate, compared with the Committee's expectation of 1 percent for the November-to-March period.

The strength in M3 rela-

tive to M2 resulted from a pickup in large CD issuance, reflecting a shifting of bank funding patterns, and from very rapid inflows to money funds. (7) Preliminary data indicate that bank loans contracted in January, with the drop most evident in the C&I category.

To an extent,

this decline may be the paydown of business loans taken out late last year, when some corporations that faced a cool reception from the commercial paper market ahead of year-end turned to their backup lines of credit at banks.

Also likely contributing to the reduction in C&I loans were

weak loan demand related to the slump in economic activity and tighter loan supply conditions, as reflected in responses to the Federal Reserve's latest survey of senior loan officers.

On average in December and Janu-

ary, bank business loans fell at a 1-3/4 percent rate.

The prime rate was

lowered by 1/2 percentage point after the turn of the year, and many banks reduced it again when the discount rate was cut to 6 percent; nevertheless, the prime rate remains exceptionally high relative to other shortterm interest rates.

Outstanding commercial paper of nonfinancial firms

moved lower on balance over the last two months; bond offerings became scarcer in January, but surged as the market rallied on February 1. Longterm issuance by state and local governments in recent weeks has been quite limited.

Consumer debt growth slowed in the fourth quarter and bank

data for January suggest continued weakness.

The survey of lending

officers conducted last month showed still small, but growing, reluctance

-6to lend to consumers and a tightening of standards in home mortgages. Federal borrowing, by contrast, has remained quite robust and is estimated to be supporting total debt growth through January at around the midpoint of its 4-1/2 to 8-1/2 percent provisional monitoring range.

MONEY, CREDIT, AND RESERVE AGGREGATES

(Seasonally adjusted annual rates of growth)

Nov.

Dec.

Jan. p

QIV '90 to January p

Money and credit aggregates M1

3.1

2.9

1.3

2.1

0.3

1.7

1.3

0.1

0.2

4.1

2.1

Domestic nonfinancial debt

6.9

Bank credit

1.5

2.5

-0.8

0.6

6.9

13.5

-9.8

0.7

Total reserves

3.1

15.4

-6.0

2.6

Monetary base

4.4

7.1

16.2

206

303

492

945

1667

1841

Reserve measures Nonborrowed reserves

Memo:

11.2

(Millions of dollars)

Adjustment plus seasonal borrowing Excess reserves p - preliminary.

1. Data on the monetary aggregates incorporate the 1991 benchmark and seasonal review. 2. Includes "other extended credit" from the Federal Reserve. NOTE:

Monthly reserve measures, including excess reserves and borrowing, are calculated by prorating averages for two-week reserve maintenance periods that overlap months. Reserve data incorporate adjustments for discontinuities associated with changes in reserve requirements.

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Long-Run Strategies (8) Three long-run strategies are presented in the table below as background for Committee consideration of ranges for money and credit growth for 1991.

The first, or baseline, strategy takes the staff's

greenbook forecast of output and inflation over 1991 and 1992.

The eco-

nomic indicators received since the greenbook would seem to suggest slightly greater weakness currently, but the half-point reduction in the funds rate should be sufficient to offset that weakness and to restore output to its greenbook level by the latter part of this year.

Indeed, to

hold GNP to the greenbook path in late 1991 and 1992, interest rates need to begin to edge higher later this year, reaching the levels assumed in the greenbook.

For 1993-1995 the baseline strategy extends the logic of

the greenbook forecast--the maintenance of a small margin of slack in the economy to achieve a gradual deceleration of prices--out for three more years.

Strategy II embodies a tighter monetary policy, as indexed by

1 percentage point slower M2 growth each year, while strategy III involves an easier policy, indexed by 1 percentage point faster M2 growth.

The

baseline forecast for years beyond 1992 is based on simulations using the Board's large-scale econometric model; the other strategies are derived from the baseline using that econometric model. (9) In all of these strategies, growth of M2 remains restrained in 1991 and 1992 relative to income after allowing for the influence of market interest rates, owing to continued contraction in depository credit and investor concerns about the health of the banking system.

Subse-

quently, with the economic recovery progressing and unusual restrictions

on credit availability and credit terms gradually lifting, bank lending strengthens and banks begin to compete more actively for retail deposits. As a result, M2 quickens after 1992 in each of the strategies as growth of this aggregate returns to a more normal relationship with the expansion of income.

The effects of the easing of credit stringency in the last three

years are offset by tighter fiscal policy--as war-related outlays diminish and the budget procedures adopted last fall take hold--leaving, on balance, a small damping influence on the economy in these years. Alternative Strategy Simulations (QIV to QIV percent change)

M2 I II

(baseline) (tighter)

III

1990

1991

1992

3.9

4-1/2 3-1/2 5-1/2

4.7

4 4 4

(easier)

Prices: GNP fixedweight price index I II III Real GNP I II III

Unemployment rate (QIV level) I II III

(10)

1993

1994

1995

3-3/4 3-1/4 4-1/4

3-1/2 2-3/4 4-1/4

3-1/4 2-1/4 4-1/2

3 1-3/4 4-3/4

2 1-1/4 2-1/2

2-1/2 1-3/4 3-1/4

2-1/4 1-3/4 3

2-1/4 2 2-1/2

2-1/4 2-1/2 1-3/4

6 6-1/4 5-3/4

6 6-1/2 5-1/2

6 6-3/4 5

6 7 5

6 6-3/4 5-1/4

In the baseline strategy, the economy begins to recover

by midyear, and by 1993 settles into a 2-1/4 percent growth rate, the

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staff's estimated rate of growth of potential GNP.

The modest amount of

slack that accompanies this strategy, as indicated by the 6 percent unemployment rate--about a half percentage point above the estimated natural rate--is sufficient to yield a deceleration of costs and prices of about 1/4 percentage point per year; the inflation rate drops to 3 percent in 1995.

After 1992, nominal interest rates drift lower in line with the

decline in inflation and increased fiscal restraint.

This decline in

interest rates buoys M2 growth relative to that of nominal GNP, and the abatement of the velocity shift keeps M2 growth steady even as nominal income slows with inflation. (11)

Under the tighter strategy II, the drop in inflation is

more pronounced, to below 2 percent in 1995.

Slower M2 growth is achieved

by higher nominal and real interest rates than in the baseline in the first couple years.

These higher rates and the accompanying firmer dollar

damp the economic recovery sufficiently to raise the unemployment rate through 1994, putting additional downward pressure on inflation.

Nominal

interest rates, while higher than in the baseline in the first two years, thereafter move below those in the baseline as inflation comes down more. This scenario, along with the others, assumes that the public's outlook for inflation is based on current and recent inflation experience and does not allow for credibility effects.

To the extent that the public believes

the Federal Reserve's commitment to a disinflation policy, lower inflation would come with less slack in resource markets. (12)

Under the easier strategy III, output growth would be fast-

er until late in the period but inflation would edge higher.

The upward

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tilt to inflation owes to the stronger economy which pushes the unemployment rate below the natural rate.

The pickup in nominal income boosts

demands for M2; to hold M2 growth at only 1 percentage point above the baseline, interest rates need to rise later in the period, to well above current levels.

This easier strategy thus leads to appreciably higher

nominal interest rates than those embodied in strategies I and II, although real interest rates remain lower. (13)

The next table presents inflation rates derived from two

different sets of simulations using the P* model, which has been augmented with a relative price of oil variable.

The upper panel uses the P* model

with historical long-run equilibrium velocity, V*, to derive the inflation implications of the M2 growth rates used in the large-scale model simulations above.

These money growth rates, fed through the P* model, yield

greater restraint on prices because this P* simulation, unlike the above simulations, assumes the recent and prospective unusual strength of velocity associated with the disruption of the depository intermediation process is transitory, and velocity returns to an unchanged V* over time. In contrast, the P* simulations presented in the lower panel assume that the velocity shifts built into the greenbook and into the large-scale model exercise are permanent, i.e., imply rising V*.

The results are very

close to those of the large-scale model simulations for strategies I and II. For the easier strategy III, however, the adjusted P* model suggests noticeably less inflation pressure, perhaps reflecting the more disinflationary starting point for the P* simulation; P* is appreciably below P at the end of 1990 even with the upward adjustment to V*.

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P* Model Simulations of Inflation (QIV to QIV percent change) 1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

4.7

3-3/4 3-3/4 4

2-1/2 2-1/2 3

1-1/2 1 2-1/4

1 0 1-3/4

1/2 -3/4 1-3/4

4 4 4-1/4

3-1/2 3-1/4 4

3-1/4 2-1/2 3-3/4

3 2 4

2-3/4 1-1/2 4

Prices: GNP fixedweight price index A. With no adjustment for velocity shifts I (baseline II (tighter) III (easier) B. With adjustment for velocity shifts I II III

1. V* is assumed to increase each year at the same rate as M2 demand is assumed to shift relative to model forecasts. These shifts are 1-3/4 percent in 1990, 1-1/2 percent in 1991 and 1992, 1-1/4 percent in 1993, 1/2 percent in 1994, and 1/4 percent in 1995.

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Long-Run Ranges (14)

The table below presents three alternative sets of ranges

for growth of money and debt over 1991.

(Appendix B gives the ranges and

outcomes for money and debt growth since 1979.)

Alternative I represents

the provisional ranges selected by the Committee last July; the staff projections for M2 and debt growth consistent with the greenbook forecast fall at the midpoint of these ranges.

The staff projection of M3, how-

ever, is lower in the provisional range.

Alternative II allows for a

somewhat tighter policy stance by reducing the ranges uniformly by 1/2 percentage point.

This alternative could be interpreted as more consis-

tent with the 1 percentage point slower M2 growth of longer-run strategy II in the preceding section.

Alternative III permits a somewhat easier

policy through comparably higher limits for money and debt growth.

Alt. I (Tentative Ranges)

Alt. II

Alt. III

Memo: Staff Forecast

Growth from QIV '90 to QIV '91 M2

2-1/2 to 6-1/2

2 to 6

3 to 7*

1 to 5*

1/2 to 4-1/2

1-1/2 to 5-1/2

4-1/2 to 8-1/2

4 to 8

5 to 9*

Debt Memo:

M1 Nominal GNP

*Range used for QIV '89 to QIV '90.

This

4-1/2 2 6-1/2 5 6

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alternative could be viewed as more consistent with longer-run strategy III discussed above, which embodies M2 growth 1 percentage point faster than in the staff forecast. (15)

The staff forecast of 4-1/2 percent M2 growth over the four

quarters of 1991 implies a pickup in growth of the aggregate after the weak expansion evidently in train for the first quarter.

Expansion for

the year as a whole is a little higher than last year, given the stimulus from more rapid nominal GNP growth that is projected and from the recent policy easings. as last year.

Even so, M2 growth will be limited by similar influences The sum of bank and thrift assets should decline even more

than last year; RTC activity is projected to pick up further and bank caution in the latter part of 1990 is carried over into 1991, with perhaps added restraint on the pricing of retail deposits.

Higher premiums or

special assessments on deposits to replenish the FDIC fund would reinforce this tendency.

In addition, depositors probably will remain chary about

the health of depository institutions, at least for a time.6

Thus,

despite the drop in interest rates, M2 growth is expected to fall short of nominal GNP growth by about 1-1/2 percentage points in 1991, as shown by the increase in M2 velocity on the chart.7 (16)

The speed-up in M2 does not show through to M3 because of

the steeper decline in depository credit. around 2 percent again in 1991.

Hence, M3 growth is expected at

Many of the retail deposits coming from

thrifts will be picked up by banks, who will use them mainly to pay down

6. Their concerns might be intensified by legislative proposals to significantly restrict deposit insurance coverage. 7. Projected M2 in 1991 is about 1-1/2 percentage points below that of the staff M2 demand model--a bit less than the 1990 model miss.

Chart 1

ACTUAL AND PROJECTED VELOCITY OF M2 AND M3* M2 VELOCITY Ratio scale -"

11111 1960

1965

11111 1970

IIlII 1975

1980

itI 1985

M3 VELOCITY

2.5

-I

-4

1.5

I 1990

Ratio scale -'

2.5

-4 1.5 I

I 1I I I I I I I I I 111I I I I I I I 1I I I I I I I I 1I 1960

1965

1970

Projectons are based on staff forecasts of NP and money.

1975

1980

1985

1990

Chart 2

ACTUAL AND PROJECTED VELOCITY OF M1 AND DEBT* M1 VELOCITY Ratio scale

-- 4.5

LLIUI 1960

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1I I I I I I I I 1965

1970

1975

1980

1985

DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL DEBT VELOCITY

1990

Ratio scale -

1111111111 IIIIII1tIII 1960 1965 1970 1975 SProjections ae based on staff forecasts of NP, money, and debt

iItIlll*1 1980

1985

1990

1.25

0.75

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high cost managed liabilities rather than expand their own lending as they continue their efforts to bolster capital ratios and limit risk exposure. The ongoing contraction of depository credit in the face of accelerating income growth is mirrored in an even more rapid gain in M3 velocity (see chart). (17)

Growth of domestic nonfinancial debt is projected at 6-1/2

percent over 1991.

Federal government debt is anticipated to expand

around 12 percent, up a bit from last year, with about 3 percentage points of this total accounted for by RTC-related outlays.

Growth of the debt of

nonfederal domestic sectors this year is likely to decline to a 4-3/4 percent rate, unusually slow relative to GNP.

This configuration follows

in part from the prominence of net exports and thus spending by foreign sectors in projected GNP; nominal gross domestic purchases rise only 1 percent this year, with credit restriction damping borrowing and creditintensive spending by domestic sectors.

The moderation in debt growth is

particularly marked for households, accompanying weak housing activity and slow spending for durables.

In the nonfinancial business sector, borrow-

ing at banks and in the commercial paper market also will continue to be damped in part by cautious lender attitudes.

Issuance of long-term debt

is anticipated to edge up slightly, and be tilted toward higher quality issuers in a less favorable environment for restructuring activity.

The

worsening credit market situation of many states and localities is expected to restrain their offerings of debt instruments. (18)

As noted above, the provisional ranges of alternative I

would seem to be broadly consistent the money and debt paths embodied in

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the staff economic forecast.

This alternative already represents a

reduction from the ranges of 1990 for M2 and debt.

Should the Committee

wish to signal an even stronger commitment to an anti-inflation policy, alternative II would reduce the ranges a further 1/2 percentage point. The lower ceilings under this long-run alternative would call for a prompter tightening of policy should the rebound in economic activity and associated inflation outcome prove stronger than now anticipated by the staff and carry through to more rapid money growth.

The upper bounds of

this alternative also would inhibit a very vigorous easing in response to an unexpectedly weak economy.

At the same time, the reduced floors for

money growth would indicate a willingness of the Committee to tolerate rather slow monetary expansion. (19)

Alternative III reverts to the M2 and debt ranges used for

1990, rather than affirming the 1/2 percentage point reductions agreed to in July, and contains an M3 range 1/2 percentage point higher than the range used last year and tentatively set for this year.

This alternative

would seem most appropriate if the Committee were primarily concerned about the risk of a deep and sustained recession, especially if that risk were seen to arise from disruptions to the credit intermediation process and the associated shortfall in M2 last year.

Raising the lower bounds

would suggest a greater willingness to ease policy in the event that slow M2 and M3 growth were to continue.

The upper bounds would ensure more

scope for a pickup in money growth in response to any additional policy easing that may be warranted by economic developments.

And, as the

economy recovers this year, the higher ranges would allow more scope

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The increases in all the ranges from their tentative specifica-

tion last July could raise questions about Federal Reserve resolve to contain inflation, though such questioning would be muted in the context of a recession.

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Short-Run Policy Alternatives (20)

Two near-term policy alternatives are presented below for

Committee consideration.

Under alternative B, federal funds trading would

be expected to average around 6-1/4 percent, with the assumption for adjustment plus seasonal borrowing remaining at $100 million.

Under alter-

native A, the funds rate would decline to the area of 5-3/4 percent. Alternative A could be implemented by a reduction of the borrowing assumption of $25 million to $75 million.8

Such an approach, while technically

feasible, would place the funds rate below the discount rate and the low levels of borrowing could add marginally to funds rate volatility.

alternative approach to achieving the money market conditions of alternative A would be through another half-point cut in the discount rate combined with maintenance of the borrowing assumption at $100 million.

Bor-

rowing has been running somewhat higher, partly as difficulties in adapting to lower reserve requirements more often necessitated use of the discount window on non-settlement days to avoid overdrafts.

Some of these

difficulties will be alleviated as required reserve balances rise seasonally and banks opt for higher required clearing balances.

Still, the

Desk will have to take account of the possibility that demands for excess reserves could continue to be high and variable.

At least for a time,

such demands are likely to continue to be rather unpredictable day to day,

8. Because of the low levels of borrowing at present, the difference in borrowing between alternatives A and B remains unusually small. Seasonal borrowing is expected to remain low through much of the intermeeting period, but an adjustment to the borrowing assumption may be needed in March as seasonal borrowing begins its yearly uptrend.

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implying more frequent spikes in borrowing and volatility in the federal funds rate. (21)

Following the recent series of policy moves by the Federal

Reserve, market participants probably are not anticipating much if any further easing in the near term.

Consequently, maintenance of current

reserve market conditions under alternative B likely would have relatively little impact on interest rates.

The dollar would remain around the lower

levels reached recently, though subject to an unusual extent to political and military developments.

Over a more extended period, however, long-

term interest rates could back up a bit if information suggesting some revitalization of the economy, as in the staff forecast, led market participants to conclude that the easing of monetary policy had run its course for the current business cycle. (22)

With little market anticipation of an immediate further

easing, money market rates under alternative A are likely to fall roughly in line with the decline of the federal funds rate.

The decrease of pri-

vate rates could be a bit larger than that for Treasury bill rates, as market participants viewed the policy easing process as providing increased assurance of a near-term resumption of economic growth and improved creditworthiness of borrowers in the foreseeable future.

The

prime rate would be lowered another 1/2 percentage point, helping to Judging from recent experience, bond

stimulate growth of bank credit. rates might not decline very much. icant further downward pressures.

The dollar would come under signif-

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(23)

Projected growth of the monetary aggregates under the two

short-term alternatives is shown in the table below.

(Detailed data

appear on the tables and charts on the following pages.)

Alt. A

Alt. B

4 4 6

3-1/2 3-3/4 5

3-1/2 3 5

3 3 4-1/2

Growth from December to March M2 M3 Ml Growth from Q4 1990 to March M2 M3 M1 (24)

While money growth will continue to be damped by the

restructuring of depository institutions, the staff expects the lower market interest rates and opportunity costs of recent months to begin providing some lift to monetary growth in the near term.

Some hints of a

pickup of M2 were already in evidence in January, and an acceleration to an average pace of about 4-1/2 percent over February and March would be expected under alternative B.

Under the lower money market rates of al-

ternative A, the acceleration would be even greater, to 5-1/2 percent over the two months.

To a large degree, the greater flows into M2 would be

direct toward money market funds, as investors likely will continue to look askance at depository institutions and the institutions themselves continue to post relatively unattractive rates.

Alternative B would leave

Alternative Levels and Growth Rates for Key Monetary Aggregates M2

Alt. A

Alt. B

Alt. A

Alt. B

Alt. A

Alt. B

3324.9 3325.7 3330.5

4110.5 4111.0 4111.8

821.2 823.3 825.3

3334.1 3347.4 3364.5

3334.1 3345.8 3360.0

4125.8 4141.7 4153.7

4125.8 4140.6 4151.0

826.2 831.7 837.4

826.2 830.9 835.3

1.3 0.3 1.7

0.8 0.1 0.2

-0.9 3.1 2.9

1.3 4.8 6.1

1.3 4.2 5.1

4.1 4.6 3.5

4.1 4.3 3.0

1.3 8.0 8.2

1.3 6.8 6.4

Quarterly Ave. Growth Rates 1990 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 1991 Q1

6.2 3.9 2.9 2.3 2.6

6.2 3.9 2.9 2.3 2.4

2.9 1.3 1.5 1.1 2.9

2.9 1.3 1.5 1.1 2.7

5.2 4.2 3.7 3.4 4.1

5.2 4.2 3.7 3.4 3.7

Nov. 90 to Mar. 91 Dec. 90 to Mar. 91 Jan. 91 to Mar. 91

3.5 4.1 5.5

3.1 3.5 4.7

3.1 4.1 4.1

2.9 3.8 3.7

5.1 5.9 8.1

4.4 4.9 6.6

Q4 Q4 Q4 Q4 Q4

3.9 2.6 1.3 2.5 3.4

3.9 2.4 1.3 2.3 3.0

1.7 2.9 2.2 3.0 3.1

1.7 2.7 2.2 2.9 2.9

4.2 4.1 2.1 4.1 5.1

4.2 3.7 2.1 3.7 4.4

Levels in billions 1990 October November December 1991 January February March Monthly Growth Rates 1990 October November December 1991 January February March

89 90 90 90 90

to to to to to

Q4 90 Q1 91 Jan. 91 Feb. 91 Mar. 91

1990 Target Ranges: 1991 Target Ranges:

3.0 to 7.0 2.5 to 6.5

1.0 to 5.0 1.0 to 5.0

Chart 3

ACTUAL AND TARGETED M2

Billions of dollars

3550

Actual Level * Short-Run Alternatives The range for 1991 Is the povonal

-- 3500

ranoe adopted a the Jly meeing.

-- 3450

2.5%]- 3400

-1 3350

3300

3250

--I 3200

I I I ON D J 1989

I F

I MA

I M

J J 1990

I A

I S

I O

I N

I D

I J

I F

I MA

I M

I J J 1991

I A

I S

3150 ON

Chart 4

ACTUAL AND TARGETED M3

Billions of dollars 4350

Actual Level * Short-Run Alternatives

-- 4300 The range for 1991 b Is proviional mae adopted a th July meing.

-- 1 4250

-- 4200

--1 4150

I D

1989

IIIIllIIII

IIIl

J J 1990

J J 1991

4100

-I

4050

4000

3950

Chart 5

Billions of dollars

875

------- Growth from 1989:Q4 - Short-Run Altemalivesl

850

825

800

-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

D 1989

I MA 1989

I M

I J190J

1990

I A

I O

I N

I D

I J

I F

- - -- - - -- - - -- - - 0%-

I I I I I I I I MA M J199 J A S O N 1991

775 D

Chart 6

DEBT

Billions of dollars

11500

8.5% Level * Projected Level SActual

The range for 1991 is Ih provialonal rage adopted at the Jiy mealing.

4.5%/-

11000

10500

-- 10000

I O

N D 1989

J J 1990

I L1i

1 I

J J 1991

1__

9500

-22-

M2 in March only a little above the lower bound of its 2-1/2 to 6-1/2 percent provisional target range.

However, given the lags between changes

in interest rates and money demand, the effects of the recent policy easings still would be boosting money growth through the second quarter, bringing M2 closer to the middle of its provisional range by June.

Under

alternative A, M2 still would be in the lower portion of its range by March, but would be on a trajectory to move around the midpoint by June. (25)

M3 would be expected to expand at a 3-3/4 percent pace over

the December-to-March period under alternative B and a little more under alternative A.

In both cases this would represent a considerable pickup

from its pace over the previous three months and would leave this aggregate 3 percent at an annual rate above its fourth-quarter base, in the middle of its 1 to 5 percent provisional range for 1991.

The acceleration

mainly reflects greater flows to both M2- and M3-type money funds, given the temporary boost in their returns relative to market rates.

Bank

credit is projected to remain sluggish, increasing at only about a 2 percent rate in the first three months of the year.

Thrifts, in turn, are

expected to continue to shrink, though at a slower pace given constraints on RTC resources.

These constraints will hold down Federal debt growth

relative to late last year, and expansion of nonfederal debt is projected to remain depressed.

Overall, the debt of domestic nonfinancial sectors

should increase in the middle portion of its provisional 4-1/2 to 8-1/2 percent range.

-23-

Directive Language (26)

Presented below for Committee consideration is draft

language relating to the Humphrey-Hawkins ranges for 1991 and to the operating paragraph for the intermeeting period. 1991 RANGES The Federal Open Market Committee seeks monetary and financial conditions that will foster price stability, promote A RESUMPTION OF SUSTAINABLE growth in output on a sustainable basis, and contribute to an improved pattern of international transactions.

In furtherance of these

objectives, the Committee at THIS [DEL: its]meeting [DEL: in July reaffirmed the range it

had]established RANGES [DEL: in February]

for GROWTH OF M2 AND M3 OF ____ TO ____ PERCENT AND ____ TO

____

[DEL: growth of 3 to 7]percent, RESPECTIVELY, measured from the fourth quarter of 1990 [DEL: 1989]to the fourth quarter of 1991 [DEL:1990]. The [DEL: Committee in July also retained the]monitoring range [DEL: of 5 to 9 percent for the year that it had set] for growth of total domestic nonfinancial debt WAS SET AT ____ TO ____ PERCENT FOR THE YEAR.

With regard to M3, the

Committee ANTICIPATED [DEL: recognized] that the ongoing restructuring of thrift depository institutions WOULD CONTINUE TO had depressed]its growth relative to spending and DEPRESS [DEL: more than anticipated. total credit [DEL:

Taking account of the

unexpectedly strong M3 velocity, the Committee decided in July to reduce the 1990 range to

1 to 5 percent.

For

-24-

1991,

the Committee agreed on provisional ranges

for

monetary growth, measured from the fourth quarter of 1990 the fourth quarter of 1991, to for M2 and

of 2-1/2 to 6-1/2 percent

to 5 percent for M3. 1

The Committee

tentatively set the associated monitoring range for growth of t o tal d o mestic n o nfinancial debt at 4-1/2

t o

percent for 1991.] The behavior of the monetary aggregates will continue to be evaluated in the light of progress toward price level stability, movements in their velocities, and developments in the economy and financial markets. OPERATIONAL PARAGRAPH In the implementation of policy for the immediate future, the Committee seeks to decrease slightly (SOMEWHAT)/MAINTAIN/INCREASE

SLIGHTLY

(SOMEWHAT)

the

existing degree of pressure on reserve positions,[DEL: taking account of a possible change in the discount rate.] Depending upon progress toward price stability, trends in economic activity, the behavior of the monetary aggregates, and developments in foreign exchange and domestic

financial markets, slightly (SOMEWHAT) greater reserve restraint (WOULD) might or (SLIGHTLY) somewhat lesser reserve restraint would (MIGHT) be acceptable in the intermeeting period.

The contemplated reserve conditions

are expected to be consistent with growth of [DEL:both]M2 and

-25M3 over the period from DECEMBER November through March at annual rates of about ____ AND ____[DEL: 4 and 1] percent, respec-

tively.

APPENDIX A MONEY STOCK REVISIONS

Measures of the money stock have been revised to incorporate the results of the annual benchmark and seasonal factor review. The attached tables compare growth rates of the old and revised series. These data should be regarded as strictly confidential until their release scheduled for February 7. Benchmark Revisions Data for the monetary aggregates have been benchmarked using call reports through June 1990 and other sources. These benchmark revisions boosted growth rates of all three monetary aggregates by about 1/4 point over 1990 but had only minor effects on the quarterly pattern of growth within the year. Also, estimates of deposits at institutions that do not file deposits reports were revised back to 1984, resulting in minor changes to annual growth rates of the monetary aggregates back to that year. Seasonal Factor Revisions Seasonal factors for the monetary aggregates continued to be estimated by the X-11 ARIMA procedure. Beginning with January 1990, the deposits components of the monetary aggregates--OCDs, savings deposits, MMDAs, small time deposits, and large time deposits--have each been adjusted with seasonal factors computed from data aggregated over banks and thrifts. Our previous procedure had been to seasonally adjust the deposit components at banks and thrifts separately, and add up the adjusted bank and thrift series to arrive at seasonally adjusted deposit totals. This remains the procedure used for computing seasonal factors applied to historical deposits data up to December 1989. The new procedure is applied to data after that month because (1) transfers of deposits from thrifts to banks have distorted bank and thrift deposit data individually more than their sum, and (2) staff analysis reveals that the seasonal patterns of nontransactions deposits at banks and thrifts are much more similar in the 1980s than they were in earlier years. Under the new procedure, the same seasonal factors are applied beginning in January 1990 to both the commercial bank and thrift components of the following series: MMDAs, other savings deposits, small time deposits, and large time deposits. With OCDs, where seasonal patterns show more differences between banks and thrifts, commercial bank data are seasonally adjusted directly, and seasonally adjusted thrift OCDs are computed as a residual between the seasonally adjusted bank OCD series and seasonally adjusted total OCDs. Overall, revisions to seasonal factors had little effect on the broad pattern of growth during 1990. For M1 and M2, the new seasonal factors shift growth into the second quarter of 1990, while M3 growth is boosted in the fourth quarter and slightly reduced over the balance of the year.

Table A.1 Comparison of Revised and Old M1 Growth Rates (percent changes at annual rates)

Revised (1)

Old (2)

Difference (1) - (2) (3)

Difference due to Benchmark Seasonals (4) (5)

Monthly 8.0 2.0 8.2

1989--Oct.

Nov. Dec. 1990--Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July

Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

2.7 8.6 5.4 4.5 -0.3 5.9 -1.2 8.6 7.8 -0.9 3.1 2.9

0.0 10.0 5.1 3.7 -2.8 6.0 -0.6 10.2 9.3 -3.1 3.7 4.2 -1.6

1991--Jan.

1.4

1.9 -0.9

-1. 1

-0.5 0.4 0.2

2.7 -1.4 0.3 0.8 2.5 -0.1 -0.6 -1.6 -1.5 2.2 -0.6 -1.3

0.5 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 -0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0

2.2 -1.7 0.0 0.5 2.2 0.1 -0.7 -1.5 -1.5 2.0 -0.8 -1.3

2.9

0.2

2.7

-0.5

-1.3

Quarterly 1989--QIV

5.0

-0.1

1990--QI QII QIII QIV

5.2 4.2 3.7 3.4

0.4 0.7 -0.4 0.0

4.8

0.6

0.3

3.6

-0.2

0.3 0.3 0.0 0.1

0.0 0.1 0.4 -0.4 -0.1

Semi-Annual 1990--QIV '89 QII '90 QII '90 to QIV '90 Annual (OIV TO OIV) 1989 1990

4.2

0.6 4.0

4.2

4.0

0.6

0.0 0.0

Table A.2 Comparison of Revised and Old M2 Growth Rates (percent changes at annual rates)

Difference

Difference due to

Revised

Old

(1) - (2)

Benchmark

Seasonals

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Monthly 1989--0ct. Nov. Dec.

7.7 7.7 7.4

1990--Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug.

3.9 7.9 5.4 3.8 1.1 2.9 1.5 5.1 4.5 1.3 0.3 1.7

Sept.

Oct. Nov. Dec. 1991--Jan.

0.8 0.4 -0.2

0.8 0.2 -0.3

3.5 9.2 5.6 2.6 -2.0 3.0 1.7 6.4 5.2 0.6 -0.4 2.0

0.4 -1.3 -0.2 1.2 3.1 -0.1 -0.2 -1.3 -0.7 0.7 0.7 -0.3

-0.2 0.1 0.0 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.2

0.6 -1.4 -0.2 0.6 2.4 -0.4 -0.4 -1.3 -0.7 0.7 0.4 -0.5

0.6

0.7

0.0

0.7

0.0

Quarterly 1989--QIV

7.2

0.1

1990--QI QII QIII QIV

6.2 3.9 2.9 2.3

-0.2 0.9 -0.1 0.1

0.0 0.4 0.2 0.1

-0.2 0.5 -0.3 0.0

Semi-Annual 1990--QIV '89 to QII '90

0.2

QII '90 to QIV '90

-0.2

Annual (OIV TO OIV) 1989 1990

4.7 3.9

Table A.3 Comparison of Revised and Old M3 Growth Rates (percent changes at annual rates)

Revised (1)

Qd (2)

Difference (11 - (21 (3)

Difference due to Benchmark Seasonals (4) (5)

Monthly 1989--Oct.

Nov. Dec. 1990--Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

2.8 4.1

4.2 1.8 3.5 1.2 1.6 0.0 0.9

0.8 4.1

1.6 0.8 0.1 0.2

1991--Jan.

1.4 3.9 4.0

1.2 0.0 -0.1

1.2 4.7 1.4 1.4 -2.1 1.4 1. 1 4.7 0.8 -0.4 -0.2 0.6

0.6 -1.2 -0.2 0.2 2.1 -0.5 -0.3 -0.6 0.8 1.2 0.3 -0.4

0.5 -0.5 -0.1 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.2 -0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.2 -0.2

0.1 -0.7 -0.1 -0.5 1.3 -1.2 -0.5 -0.5 0.9 1.2 0.1 -0.2

3.7

0.4

0.3

0.1

Quarterly 1989--QIV

2.9

0.9

0.5

1990--QI QII QIII QIV

2.9 1.3 1.5 1.1

0.0 0.3 -0.1 0.5

-0.1 -0.1 -0.3 0.5

Semi-Annual 1990--QIV '89 to QII '90

2.0

-0.2

QII '90 to QIV '90

1.1

0.0

Annual (QIV TO OIV) 1989 1990

3.5 1.7

3.3 1.5

0.2 0.2

0.0 0.0

Table A.4 Revisions to the Monetary Aggregates (4th quarter-to-4th quarter growth rates) (in percent) M1 seasonally adjusted Old

New

1983

10.4

1984 1985 1986

5.4 12.0 15.5

1987 1988

6.3 4.3

1989 1990

.6 4.0

Diff

M2 seasonally adjusted

M3 seasonally adjusted

Old

New

12.2

9.8

7.9 8.9 9.3

8.0 8.7 9.2

+.1 -.2 -.1

10.6 7.8 9.1

10.7 7.6 9.0

+.1 -.2 -.1

6.3 4.3

4.3 5.2

5.8 6.3

.6 4.2

+.2

4.6 3.7

4.7 3.9

+.1 +.2

3.3 1.5

3.5 1.7

+.2 +.2

Diff

Old

New

Diff

APPENDIX B

ADOPTED LONGER-RUN GROWTH RATE RANGES FOR THE MONETARY AND CREDIT AGGREGATES (percent annual rates; numbers in parentheses are actual growth rates as reported at and of policy period in February Monetary Policy Report to Congress)

Domestic Nonfinancial Debt

QIV

1978 - QIV

19792

3 - 6

(5.5)

5 - 8

(8.3)

6 - 9

(8.1)

QIV

1979 - QIV

1980

4 - 6.5

(7.3)3,4

6 - 9

(9.8)

6.5 - 9.5

(9.9)

QIV

1980 - QIV

1981

3.5 - 6

(2.3) 3 ,

6 - 9

(9.4)

QIV

1981 - QIV

1982

2.5 - 5.5

(8.5)

6 - 9

QIV

1982 - QIV

1983

5 - 98

(7.2)

QIV

1983 - QIV

1984

4 - 8

(5.2)

QIV

1984 - QIV

1985

QIV

1985 - QIV

1986

QIV

1986 - QIV

1987

n.s

QIV

1987 - QIV

1988

QIV

1988 - QIV

1989

QIV

1989 - QIV

1990

7.5 -

10.5

6 -9

(7.9)

6.5 - 9.5 (11.4)

6 - 9

(8.8)6

(9.2)

6.5 - 9.5

(10.1)

6 -

(7.1)

7 - 109

(8.3)

6.5 - 9.5

(9.7;

8.5 - 11.5

(10.5)

6 - 9

(7.7)

6 - 9

(10.5)

8 - 11

(13.4)

3 - 810 (12.7)

6 - 9

(8.6)

6 - 9.5

(7.4)

9 - 12

(13.5)

3 - 8

(15.2)

6 - 9

(8.9)

6 - 9

(8.8)

8 - 11

(12.9)

(6.2)

5.5 - 8.5

(4.0)

5.5 - 8.5

(5.4)

8 - 11

(9.6)

n.s

(4.3)

4 - 8

(5.3)

4 - 8

(6.2)

7 - 11

(8.7)

n.s

(0.6)

3 - 7

(4.6)

(3.3)

6.5 - 10.5

(8.1)

n.s

(4.2)

3 - 7

(3.9)

(1.7)

5 - 9

(6.9)

3.5 - 7.5 1 - 512

QIV

1990 - QIV

1991

(12.2)

2.5 - 6.5

1 - 5

4.5-

8.5

n.s.--not specified.

*Growth rates in parentheses are current estimates. **Provisional growth ranges specified at July 1990 meeting of the FOMC. 1.Targets are for bank credit until 1983; from 1983 onward targets are for domestic nonfinancial sector debt. 2. At the February 1979 meeting the FOMC adopted a QI'78 to QIV'79 range for M1 of 1-1/2 to 4-1/2 percent. This range anticipated that shifting to ATS and NOW accounts in New York State would slow M1 growth by 3 percentage points. At the October meeting it was noted that ATS/NOW shifts would reduce M1 by no more than 1-1/2 percentage points. Thus, the longer-run range for M1 was modified to 3-6 percent. 3. The figures shown reflect target and actual growth of M1-B in 1980 and shift-adjusted M1-B in 1981. M1-B was relabeled M1 in January 1982. The targeted growth for M1-A was 31/2 to 6 percent in 1980 (actual growth was 5.0 percent); in 1981 targeted growth for shift-adjusted Mi-A was 3 to 5-1/2 percent (actual growth was 1.3 percent). 4. When these ranges were set, shifts into other checkable deposits in 1980 were expected to have only a limited effect on growth of Mi-A and Ml-B. As the year progressed, however, banks offered other checkable deposits more actively, and more funds than expected were directed to these accounts. Such shifts are estimated to have decreased MlA growth and increased M1-B growth each by at least 1/2 percentage point more than had been anticipated. (Footnotes are continued on next page)

5. Adjusted for the effects of shifts out of demand deposits and savings deposits into other checkable deposits. At the February FOMC meeting, the target ranges for observed M1-A and M1-B in 1981 on an unadjusted basis, expected to be consistent with the adjusted ranges, were -4-1/2 to -2 and 6 to 8-1/2 percent, respectively. Actual M1-B growth (not shift adjusted) was 5.0 percent. 6. Adjusted for shifts of assets from domestic banking offices to International Banking Facilities.

7. Range for bank credit is annualized growth from the December 1981-January 1982 average level through the fourth quarter of 1982. 8. Base period, adopted at the July 1983 FOMC meeting, is QII'83. At the February 1983 meeting the FOMC had adopted a QIV'82 to QIV'83 target range for M1 of 4 to 8 percent. 9. Base period is the February-March 1983 average. 10. Base period, adopted at the July 1985 FOMC meeting, is QII'85. At the February 1985 meeting the FOMC had adopted a QIV'84 to QIV'85 target range for M1 of 4 to 7 percent. 11. No range for M1 has been specified since the February 1987 FOMC meeting because of uncertainties about its underlying relationship to the behavior of the economy and its sensitivity to economic and financial circumstances. 12. At the February 1990 meeting the FOMC specified a range of 2-1/2 to 6-1/2 percent. This range was lowered to 1 to 5 percent at the July 1990 meeting.

February 4, 1991

SELECTED INTEREST RATES (percent) I

Short Term

I funds

secondary

secondary market

market

- 1

-mo i

-month i

3-mon i __

COs

Treasury bils

federal

-45-

I money

I comm

mutual

papal

1-mgh I I--a--

market

prime

loan

d I 7

I bank

Long Term

I corporate I U S government constant maturity yields 3v ear I 10 vea 30 veal

A utility I recently | oered

I conventional home mongages | municipal I secondary I Bonad maike prrnary market | Buyer | lined rail I lied rat I_ ARM

I-

89 --

High Low

9.95 8.38

10.23 8.24

9.19 7.87

11.50 10.50

9.77 7.60

9.46 778

9.26 7.85

10.47 9.26

795 719

1173 992

11.22 9.68

941 834

90 --

High Low

8.33 7.16

8.58 7.63

8.06 7.16

10.50 10.00

9.09 7.42

9.07 794

9.13 8.00

10.50 9.55

7.83 7.28

10.99 991

10.67 956

8.63 7.86

Monthly Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90

8.24 8.28 8.26 8.18 8.29 8.15 8.13 8.20 8.11 7.81 7.31

8.22 8.35 8.42 8.35 8.23 8.10 7.97 8.06 8.06 8.03 7.82

7.94 7.95 7.99 7.98 7.96 7.64 7.49 7.47 7.45 7.34 7.20

10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00

8.39 8.63 8.78 8.69 8.40 8.26 8.22 8.27 8.07 7.74 7.47

8.47 8.59 8.79 8.76 8.48 8.47 8.75 8.89 8.72 8.39 8.07

850 8.56 8.76 8.73 8.46 8.50 8.86 9.03 8.86 8.54 8.24

9.84 9.92 10.09 10.04 9.85 9.96 10.29 10.28 10.23 10.07 9.95

7.52 7.53 7.62 7.59 7.47 7.40 7.57 7.72 7.74 745 7 34

1049 1061 1075 1068 1037 10.26 1041 10.45 1047 1025 995

10.20 10.27 10.37 10.48 1016 10.04 10.10 1018 1018 10.01 9.67

846 8.53 8.55 8.59 850 843 835 8.28 8.21 810 7.93

Jan

6.91

7.17

6.92

9.52

7.38

8.09

8.27

9.83

7.32

9.89

964

774

Weekly Nov 7 90 Nov 14 90 Nov 21 90 Nov 28 90

7.97 S7.94 7.80 7.56

7.95 7.98 7.96 8.11

7.38 7.34 7.35 7.27

10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00

7.84 774 7.70 7.66

8.55 845 8.32 8.28

8.68 8.60 8.48 8.44

1015 1003 10.03 10.03

753 7.42 7.41 7.35

1041 10.17 1014 10.19

10.09 10.02 9.93 990

8.09 811 8.08 8.08

Dec 5 90 Dec 12 90 Dec 19 90 Dec 26 90

7.60 7.25 7.29 7.16

8.18 7.63 7.69 8.01

7.26 7.21 7.16 7.16

10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00

7.64 7.43 7.42 7.48

8.23 8.01 801 8.13

8.38 8.17 8.17 8.29

9.91 9.92 9.96 9.99

7.33 7.28 7.36 7.39

9.94 9.91 9.96 9.97

9.81 956 9.64 9.68

8.04 7.91 786 7 92

Jan 2 91 Jan 9 91 Jan 16 91 Jan 23 91 Jan 30 91

7.17 6.40 6.77 6.88 7.46

7.75 7.32 7.32 7.13 6.91

7.37 7.08 6.91 6.79 6.76

9.93 9.50 9.50 9.50 9.50

7.41 7.38 7.43 7.38 7.35

807 8 10 8.21 805 8.04

8.24 8.29 8.40 8.20 8.22

9.85 9.96 9.77 9.80 9.65

7.32 7.40 734 7.31 7.24

980 9.97 993 984 9.70

9.56 9.63 9.75 961 9.56

7.78 7.76 7.74 7.69 775

736 7.30 7 .10p

8.06 8,03 7.89p

8.24 8.21 8.07 p

Daily Jan 25 91 Jan 31 91 Feb 1 91

7.59 8.18 6.7 5 p

6.17 6.19 6.00

6.23 6.20 5.97

6.21 6.13 5,91

6.87 6.88 651

6.84 6.99 6.73

NOTE Weekly data lor columns 1 Ihrough 11 are statement week averages Data In column 7 are taken from Donoghue s Money Fund Report Columns 12 13 and 14 are 1 day quotes for Friday Thursday or Friday respectively following the end of he statement week. Column 13 Is the Bond Buyer revenue Index Column 14 Is the FNMA purchase yield plus loan servicing fee on 30-day mandatory delivery commitments Column 15 is the average contract rate on new commitments tor fxed-rate montgages(FRMs ) wth 80 pecent loan-to-value ratros at major instltuttonal lenders Column 16 is the average Initlal contract rae on new commitments flor year aoustabtle late mongages|ARMs) at major Insilltutonal tenders offering Doh FRMs and ARMs wilhtme same number of discount points p - preliminary data

Strictly Confidential (FR)

Class II FOMC

Money and Credit Aggregate Measures Seasonally adjusted

FEB.

n'nm~irt; s Mone

stock

in M2

QUARTERLY AVERAGE 1990-lst QTR. 1990-2nd QTR. 1990-3rd QTR. 1990-4th QTR. MONTHLY 1990-JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEP. OCT. NOV. DEC. 1991-JAN.

LEVELS ($BILLIONS) : MONTHLY 1990-AUG. SEP. OCT. NOV. DEC. MEEKLY 1990-DEC.

1991-JAN.

7 14 p 21 p

Bank

----

in M3 only

credit

total loans and investments

___

non

nancia

~^l'I e.

U.s

government' --

other'

total

5.2 4.7 3.9

5.5 6.1 3.8

10.7 -0.6 -6.4

6.3 3.5 1.7

7.2 4.8

7.7 7.5 5.2

8.0 7.5 11.0

9.5 7.8 5.6

9.2 7.7 6.9

6.2 3.9 2.9 2.3

6.5 3.8 2.6 1.9

-9.6 -9.0 -4.0 -3.6

2.9 1.3 1.5 1.1

2.8

3.7 3.4

5.3 6.5 6.6 2.1

6.8 9.7 14.3 11.8

6.0 6.1 5.3 4.7

6.1 6.9 7.4 6.4

2.7 8.6 5.4 4.5 -0.3 5.9 -1.2 8.6 7.8 -0.9 3.1 2.9

3.9 7.9 5.4 3.8 1.1 2.9 1.5 5.1 4.5 1.3 0.3 1.7

4.3 7.7 5.4 3.5 1.5 1.8 2.3 4.1 3.4 2.1 -0.6 1.3

-6.3 -13.8 -15.4 -7.1 -4.3 -7.1 -2.3 -0.2 -10.6 -1.5 -0.5 -6.1

1.8 3.5 1.2 1.6 0.0 0.9 0.8 4.1 1.6 0.8 0.1 0.2

1.3 1.9 2.9 1.4 -4.2 4.8 1.2 2.7 6.0 0.8 2.4

4.1 8.3 12.8 7.6 7.5 14.9 13.8 18.6 11.1 6.2 16.2 12.9

5.3 6.8 7.1 6.6 4.6 4.5 6.0 5.5 5.3 4.4 3.9 5.0

5.0 7.2 8.4 6.8 5.3 6.9 7.8 8.6 6.7 4.9 6.9 6.9

t---

: 4.2

0.6 4.2 5.2 4.2

816.5

3308.8 3321.2 3325.7 3330.5

793.6 786.6 785.6 785.3 781.3

4102.4 4107.8 4110.5 4111.0 4111.8

821.9 822.8 825.7 827.7 826.8

3326.2 3327.6 3331.1 3331.2 3334.6

2504.3 2504.8 2505.4 2503.4 2507.9

780.2 780.6 786.2 781.2 778.0

4106.4 4108.2 4117.3 4112.3 4112.6

824.9 821.9 826.1

3326.4 3326.3 3334.8

2501.5 2504.5 2508.7

785.8 784.9 792.7

4112.2 4111.2 4127.4

3324.9

________

-I

_______

0.9

2.3

2.9 9.2 10.0 5.2 3.2 7.1 6.9 10.3 0.1 0.9 1.5 2.5

2492.3 2499.4 2503.7 2502.5 2505.2

821.8 821.2 823.3 825.3

________

--- nontransaclions component

Period ANN. GROWTH RATES 1%. ANNUALLY 1Q4 TO Q4) 1988 1989 1990

meas

1991

r^,t:;,r

_______I_______I

4939.3 4963.8 4967.0

4977.0

2707.8 2708.5 2710.9 2714.2 2719.8

1 ________

2438.9 2461.5 2474.3 2507.7 2534.7

7817.8 7852.1 7881.0 7906.8 7939.6

10256.6 10313.6 10355.3 10414.5 10474.4

Debt data are on a monthly average basis, derived by averaging end-of-month levels of adjacent months, and have been adjusted to remove discontinuities. p-preliminary pe-preliminary estimate

Data on this table include revisions from the 1991 benchmark and seasonal review.

Strictly Confidential (FR)

Components of Money Stock and Related Measures

ClassII

seasonally adjusted unless otherwise noted -1

Olher

Period

Currency

1 LEVELS I(BILLIONS) : ANNUALLY 14TH QTR.) 1988 1989 1990

chechlble

Demand deposits

I S-

deposill

I Overnlght RPs and Eurodollars NSA'

depolits

smill

money marke.

denomi nation time deposits'

Savings MMDAs

r_.

FEB.

mutual funds general nrlilupurpos lions and broker only dealer

Large

I Itrm Eurodollars NSA'

1991

Short

denomi nation time deposits'

FOMC

Savings bonds

-I

larm Treaury sectiriltie

14 --- Commercial paper'

fHankers accep lancs

ikR

210.8 220.9 245.0

287.3 278.9 277.0

280.1 282.9 292.8

83.4 76.1 78.2

505.8 482.0 506.4

424.5 402.9 411.1

1022.4 1142.4 1163.5

237.5 308.9 344.1

86.7 101.4 121.9

538.8 565.0 510.1

123.2 106.4 92.9

102.8 80.2 72.1

108.8 116.8

266.8 321.5

326.6 350.4

40.5 40.4

MONTHLY 1989-DEC.

222.2

278.7

285.2

77.3

486.1

404.1

1145.9

313.6

101.9

563.5

98.6

81.0

117.5

327.4

349.2

40.7

1990-JAN. FEB. MAR.

224.5 226.6 228.4

277.6 279.4 278.9

285.8 287.5 289.8

81.5 82.3 81.9

488.2 491.8 495.7

406.0 408.7 410.2

1146.5 1146.8 1149.9

318.4 324.2 325.9

102.5 103.4 105.2

560.0 554.9 549.3

97.4 100.4 98.4

74.2 68.4 66.7

117.9 118.4 119.2

330.7 327.3 336.9

345.0 345.6 344.1

40.3 38.5 37.2

APR. MAY JUNE

230.3 231.9 233.7

278.1 275.8 276.3

291.7 292.0 293.7

79.4 83.2 82.3

499.3 500.5 502.3

411.5 411.3 411.8

1152.2 1153.5 1154.6

327.0 325.3 327.5

106.9 107.6 108.1

543.7 540.5 538.0

98.2 99.3 102.2

65.3 67.1 64.4

119.9 120.7 121.4

330.0 315.5 332.0

351.9 349.1 349.1

36.0 35.4 34.7

JULY AUG. SEP.

235.7 238.4 241.5

275.6 278.0 279.1

291.7 292.1 293.0

84.0 82.7 81.6

503.4 505.9 507.4

412.7 412.7 412.3

1156.0 1157.7 1159.8

329.2 335.8 339.2

109.8 114.0 116.2

535.0 529.2 521.8

100.4 101.8 98.0

65.1 68.2 69.4

122.2 123.0 123.8

336.4 335.7 342.6

348.2 345.9 357.9

33.0 32.3 31.8

OCT. NOV. DEC.

243.9 244.9 246.3

277.1 277.1

291.8 292.9 293.8

83.5 77.5 73.6

506.7 506.7 505.9

411.5 411.1 410.7

1162.0 1163.2 1165.4

341.7 343.0 347.7

119.6 120.5 125.7

515.1 510.8 504.5

71.1 72.6 72.7

124.5 125.2

341.9 349.0

357.6 357.9

32.5 33.9

276.8

95.2 94.8 88.8

Net of money market mutual fund holdings of these items.

2. 3. 4.

Includes retail repurchase agreements. All IRA and Keogh accounts at commercial banks and thrift institutions are subtracted from small time deposits. Excludes IRA and Keogh accounts. Net of large denomination time deposits held by money market mutual funds and thrift institutions. p-preliminary

Data on this table include revisions from the 1991 benchmark and seasonal review.

STRICTLY CONFTENTIAL (FR) CLASS II-FOMC

1 NET CHANGES IN SYSTEM HOLDINGS OF SECURITIES

IMion of dollr,

February 1. 1991

1987 1988 1989 1989

-- 01 -- Q2 -- Q3 -- Q4

1990 -- Q1 -- 02 -- 03 -- 04

1990 January February March Apil

May June July August September October November December

13,233 7,635 1.468

9,329 2,200 12,730

3,905 5,435 -11.263

-3,842

2,200 2,400 3,200 4.930

-6,042 96 -9,650 4,333

-3,799 10,892 5,115 2,055

1,400

-1,065 -3,277 543 5,796 3,365 1,732 287 4.197 631 933 3.341 -2,219

1,000 400

2496 -6,450 9,264

3,000

3,359 2,176 327

9,779 4,685 946

2441 1,404 258

172

-228 1,361 -163

-20 287 -9

1.858

370

17,366

20,994 14,513 -10,390

-11,033 1.557 -1.683

-6,477 2,075 -9,921 3,934

-5,591 924 -893 3,877

-5,199 10,892 5,115 -945

-5.000 10,964 5,045 -755

-4,061 509 95 12,614

-2,065 -3,677 543 5,796 3,365 1,732 287 4,197 631 933 3,341 -5.219

-2065 3,677 742 5,818 3,365 1,782 254 4,160 631 899 3,666 -5,319

-8,435 4.417 -43 -1,260 -378 2,146 2,863 1,110 3.878 1.224 509 13,329

356 84 100

-3,137 6,460 3,975 3.500

3.105 -151 -1,781 -1,235

-3,851 1,844 -3,063 2,064

-2,151 -1,100

-1,374 -5.175 -854 2,847 -1.250

Weekly November November November November

7 14 21 28

December December December December

5 12 19 26

2,880 -151 -681 -235

1,000 1,000

2,880 -151 -1.681 -1,235

January 2 January 9 January 16 January 23 January 30

-1,151 100

1,000 1,000

-2,151 -1,100

Memo: LEVEL (bil. $) 7 January 30

not seaonlly adiusted

118.6

1. Change from end-of-period to end-of-period. 2. Outnght transactions in market and with foreign accounts. 3. Outright transactions in market and with foreign accounts, and short-term notes acquired in exchange for maturing bills. Excludes maturity shifts and rollovers of maturing issues. 4. Weekly net purchases of Treasury coupons are summed over al maturites.

-155

1,398

284

500

1,315 -248

2,104

--- -----172

13.3

9,665

...-

284

-24

58.5

500

24.7

-369

122.5

-5.1

247.5

5. Reflects net change in redemptions (-) ot Tre asury and agency securities. 6. Includes change in RPs (+), matched sale-piu rchase transactions (-), and matched purchase sale transactions (t) 7. The levels of agency issues were as follows: wi thin IIye

January 30

2.6

1-5 2.5

5-10 1.0

over 10 0.2

total 6.3

Cite this document

APA

Federal Reserve (1991, February 5). Bluebook. Bluebooks, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/bluebook_19910206

BibTeX

@misc{wtfs_bluebook_19910206,
  author = {Federal Reserve},
  title = {Bluebook},
  year = {1991},
  month = {Feb},
  howpublished = {Bluebooks, Federal Reserve},
  url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/bluebook_19910206},
  note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}