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CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS II - FOMC
May 20,
SUPPLEMENT
CURRENT ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Prepared for the
Federal Open Market Committee
By the Staff
Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
1983
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Revised GNP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Budget Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
TABLES:
Real gross national product and related items . . .
Budget estimates for fiscal 1984 . . . . . . . . . .
THE DOMESTIC FINANCIAL ECONOMY
TABLES:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Monetary aggregates
Commercial bank credit and short- and intermediateterm business credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Selected financial market quotations . . . . . . . .
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Revised GNP
Real GNP is now estimated to have increased at a 2.5 percent annual
rate in the first quarter, compared with a preliminary figure of 3.1 percent (annual rate).
The downward revision was entirely due to a faster
rate of inventory liquidation than originally published;
partly offset by an upward revision to final sales.
this was only
Within final sales,
the revisions to business fixed investment were particularly noteworthy:
the preliminary estimate of real spending on structures had shown a
moderate gain but the revised estimate records a decline, while for producers' durable equipment the estimate of first quarter growth was raised
from an annual rate of 1-1/2 percent to 10 percent.
Reflecting the re-
vision to real GNP, the revised estimate of nominal GNP growth has been
lowered from 9.1 percent to 8.3 percent.
The estimate of inflation, as
measured by the gross business product fixed-weighted price index, remained unchanged at 2.8 percent.
The Commerce Department also released preliminary estimates of
corporate profits for the first quarter.
Reported (book value) profits,
after taxes, fell $5 billion as inventory profits fell sharply reflecting
the drop in inflation.
But economic profits, which include inventory
valuation and capital consumption adjustments, rose $13 billion after
taxes--the largest gain since early 1981.
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Budget Developments
The Senate passed a budget resolution on May 19 that calls for an
estimated federal government deficit of about $179 billion in fiscal
1984.
Relative to current law, the resolution requires an increase in
receipts of $9 billion compared with more than $30 billion of additional
revenue in the House resolution passed earlier.
The next step in the
Congressional budget process is for the House and Senate to try to
reach agreement on the resolution through a conference committee.
REAL GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT AND RELATED ITEMS
(Percent change from previous period at compound annual rate;
based on seasonally adjusted data)
1982
Q1
Q2
1983
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q1
Prelim. Revised
1. Gross national product
2.
Final sales
3.
Personal consumption
expenditures
4.
Business fixed invest.
Structures
Prod. durable equip.
5.
Residential
investment
Government purchases
Federal
State and local
6.
.7
-5.1
-1.1
.2
-. 9
2.5
2.5
-5.0
1.3
-7.6
-11.8
1.6
-17.4
-7.6
-5.2
-8.8
-6.0
-4.8
-6.5
12.9
-5.3
39.3
83.1
79.6
-5.3
-13.5
.4
8.4
23.1
-.2
12.0
32.8
-.4
-8.9
-21.1
.7
-8.5
-19.1
-.3
-10.2
-2.9
-5.5
-1.1
-1.3
.6
.9
4.5
1.3
2.6
5.6
-3.3
10.1
7. Change in business
inventories1
-15.4
-4.4
3.4
-20.3
-12.4
-16.1
8. Net exports1
Exports
Imports
36.9
-12.7
-17.5
35.7
7.5
14.5
27.5
-16.8
4.6
27.2
-21.6
-25.4
24.0
-.7
23.5
-.8
11.0
13.0
-1.0
6.8
5.8
4.3
4.6
5.0
4.4
3.8
5.9
6.6
6.7
6.9
ADDENDA:
9. Nominal GNP
10. GNP implicit
price deflator
11.
Gross domestic business
product fixed-weighted
price index
12. Saving rate (percent)
1.
Billions of constant dollars.
-4-
BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL 1984
(Unified basis, billions of dollars)
Administration
April
January
Congressional resolutions
House1
Senate2
Receipts
660
654
689
671
Outlays
849
844
864
850
Deficit
189
190
174
179
Note: Underlying economic assumptions of the Administration and Congress
differ slightly.
1. First Concurrent Budget Resolution, as passed by the House in March 1983.
2. First Concurrent Budget Resolution, as passed by the Senate May 19, 1983.
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(Based
MONETARYAGGREGATES
on seasonally adjusted data unless otherwise noted)1
1983
1982
Q3
2. (M)
3.
4.
6.1
(4.3)
10.9
12.5
3
M2
M3
Q1
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.P
- Percentage change at annual rates
Money stock measures
1.
M1
Q4
Growth from
base period
to April 19832
13.1
(14.5)
9.3
9.5
14.1
(13.8)
19.8
9.8
22.4
(24.2)
24.0
13.3
15.9
(19.6)
11.1
8.2
-3.1
(-0.5)
3.1
4.5
11.5
(12.5)
5.8
8.8
Level in billions
of dollars
April 1983
Selected components
5.
Currency
7.2
7.4
10.9
12.5
12.4
6.
Demand deposits
0.0
8.4
2.7
-3.5
7.0
-6.5
238.8
7.
Other checkable deposits
21.6
34.0
46.2
91.9
37.3
-10.3
115.0
8.
M2 minus M1 (9+10+11+14)
12.4
8.1
21.6
24.5
9.6
5.1
1576.3
28.6
Overnight RPs and Eurodollars, NSA
General purpose and broker/dealer money
23.9
34.2
40.7
-2.5
41.9
50.4
35.0
12.6
15.3
9.9
-57.5
57.3
-51.1
44.6
-42.1
17.5
-56.9
10.1
146.7
660.0
-1.8
18.7
5.7
35.3
-0.4
4.1
295.3
-48.6
13.6
189.9
-63.6
22.9
79.6
-39.1
15.0
39.5
-19.8
11.5
338.6
321.4
726.7
2.8
6.9
30.1
-5.9
166.0
-50.3
170.0
-62.5
78.8
-29.3
36.6
-7.9
321.2
405.5
20.0
10.4
-36.4
-40.9
-7.9
11.8
381.1
13.4
12.9
15.6
4.2
-1.5
29.3
-43.0
-49.7
-14.6
-49.4
-60.1
-7.6
-6.4
-17.9
36.4
18.2
-1.0
87.3
300.8
231.5
69.3
109.3
-11.9
32.7
34.4
-32.7
19.4
-23.4
5.9
-45.1
26.5
-69.0
40.3
41.0
43.1
4
market mutual fund shares, NSA
Commercial banks
Savings deposits, SA, plus
5
MMDAs, NSA
Small time deposits
Thrift institutions
Savings deposits, SA, plus
5
MMDAs, NSA
Small time deposits
17.
M3 minus M2 (18+21+22)
18.
19.
20.
21.
Large time deposits
6
At commercial banks, net
At thrift institutions
Institution-only money market
22.
Term RPs, NSA
mutual fund shares,
NSA
-
8.8
138.0
Average monthly change in billions of dollars -
MEMORANDA:
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Managed liabilities at commercial
banks (24+25)
Large time deposits, gross
Nondeposit funds
Net due to related foreign
inscitutions, NSA
7
Other
U.S. government deposits at commercial
8
banka
1.9
5.7
-3.8
-5.3
-6.5
1.2
-19.3
-17.1
-2.2
-12.9
-16.2
3.3
-7.1
-7.0
-0.1
4.7
0.1
4.6
376.2
296.1
80.1
-4.6
0.8
-0.7
2.0
-4.6
2.4
0.4
3.0
0.0
-0.2
0.1
4.7
-62.0
0.2
0.3
0.2
-6.9
3.7
1.0
13.5
142.1
Dollar mounts shown under memoranda for
1. Quarterly growth rates are computed on a quarterly average basis.
quarterly changes are calculated on an end-month-of-quarter basis.
The base period for the M2 target is the
2. The base for MI and M3 targets is the fourth-quarter 1982 average.
February-March 1983 average.
3. HI seasonally adjusted using an experimental model-based procedure applied to weekly data.
4. Overnight and continuing contract RPs issued to the nonbank public by commercial banks plus overnight
Eurodollar deposits issued by branches of U.S. banks to U.S. nonbank customers, both net of amounts held by
Excludes retail RPs, which are in the small time deposit component.
money market mutual funds.
5. Beginning December, 1982, growth rates are for savings deposits, seasonally adjusted, plus money market
Savings deposits excluding MMDAs declined at cmiercial
deposit accounts (MMDAs), not seasonally adjusted.
At
banks at annual rates of 56.3 percent in February, 18.3 percent in March and 10.1 percent in April.
thrift
institutions, savings deposits excluding MMDAs declined during February and March at annual rates of
21.2 percent, and 7.4 percent respectively, and increased in April by 6.8 percent.
6. Net of large-denomination time deposits held by money market mutual funds and thrift
institutions.
7. Consists of borrowings from other than commercial banks in the form of federal funds purchased, securities
for borrowed money (including borrowings from the
sold under agreements to repurchase and other liabilities
Federal Reserve and unaffiliated foreign banks), loans sold to affiliates,
loan RPs and other minor items.
Data are partially estimated.
8. Consists of Treasury demand deposits at commercial banks and Treasury nots balances.
p-preliminary.
-6COMMERCIAL
CREDIT
BANK
AND SHORT- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM BUSINESS CREDIT
1
at
changes
(Percentage
annual rates, based on seasonally adjusted data)
1982
Q3
Q4
Q1
-----------------------1.
Total loans and investments
2 ,3
at banks
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
Levels in
bil. of dollars
April 1983
Commercial Bank Credit -----------------------
5.8
6.3
10.7
7.6
11.2
8.7
1463.7
3
4.8
15.9
25.1
14.1
17.9
22.2
401.2
3.
Treasury securities
8.3
43.0
61.1
40.3
53.1
54.0
157.8
4.
Other securities
-1.5
-2.0
2.5
243.4
3.8
1062.5
2.
5.
Investments
3
2 3
Total loans ,
2
3
6.
Business loans ,
7.
Security loans
8.
9.
3.0
2.5
5.7
6.2
3.0
5.7
5.4
8.9
9.0
-.2
3.9
1.5
1.7
-26.4
21.6
15.9
22.9
-34.0
-11.3
395.3
63.6
37.2
Real estate loans
2.8
4.9
7.2
6.7
7.0
7.4
311.4
Consumer loans
3.0
4.6
6.5
1.9
11.2
7.4
196.0
Short- and Intermediate-Term Business Credit -----------10.
11.
12.
Total short- and intermediateterm business credit (sum of
lines 14, 15 and 16)3
9.2
9.2
-2.9
-2.9
-3.3
-0.6
-6.7
Business loans net of bankers
3
acceptances
9.0
.6
3.5
3.0
-0.3
-11.3
Commercial paper issued by non4
financial firms
n.a.
n. a.
386.4
-6.2
-39.6
-33.1
12.7
-7.5
-27.7
46.5
-0.5
4.0
-0.8
-13.3
432.9
-13.6
448.9
13.
Sum of lines 11 & 123
7.0
-4.5
14.
Line 13 plus loans at foreign
3
branches ,5
8.4
-4.8
0.2
4.6
-1.5
15.8
-15.2
4.0
5.9
4.4
n.a.
n.a.
-30.9
-38.8
-51.3
n.a.
n.a.
15.
16.
6
Finance company loans to business
Total bankers acceptances outstanding
6
6.6
22.9
1. Average of Wednesdays for domestically chartered banks and average of current and preceding ends of months for
foreign-related institutions.
2. Loans include outstanding amounts of loans reported as sold outright to a bank's own foreign branches, unconsolidated nonbank affiliates of the bank, the bank's holding company (if not a bank), and unconsolidated nonbank
subsidiaries of the holding company.
3. Adjusted for shifts of assets and liabilities to International Banking Facilities (IBFs) which affected flows
from December 1981 to September 1982.
4. Average of Wednesdays.
5. Loans at foreign branches are loans made to U.S. firms by foreign branches of domestically chartered banks.
6. Based on average of current and preceding ends of month.
n.a.--not available.
SELECTED FINANCIAL MARKET QUOTATIONS 1
(Percent)
1982
FOMC
Highs Dec. 21
1983
Intermeeting
FOMC
Low
Mar. 29
May
19
Change from:
FOMC
FOMC
Dec. 21 Mar. 29
Short-term rates
Federal funds 2
15.61
8.69
8.88
8.48
8.59
-.10
Treasury bills
3-month
6-month
1-year
14.57
14.36
13.55
7.90
8.01
8.11
8.63
8.63
8.56
7.96
8.14
7.97
7.95
8.25
.24
.24
.17
-.49
-.38
-. 28
Commercial paper
1-month
3-month
15.73
15.61
8.48
8.43
9.03
8.94
8.17
8.39
8.13
8.36
-.09
-. 07
-.64
-. 58
Large negotiable CDs 3
1-month
3-month
6-month
15.94
16.14
16.18
8.59
8.62
8.78
8.99
8.26
8.26
8.29
8.50
8.53
8.68
-.09
9.06
9.18
-. 49
-. 53
Eurodollar deposits 2
1-month
3-month
16.36
16.53
Q.44
9.56
9.59
9.54
8.68
8.71
8.81
8.89
-.63
-. 67
17.00
11.50
10.50
10.50
10.50
-1.00
13.97
13.97
8.25
8.98
8.73
7.87
8.21
8.42
9.06
8.76
.17
-.22
-.31
-.30
9.87
10.54
10.53
10.05
10.60
10.66
9.36
10.12
10.27
9.74
10.49
10.67
-.13
-. 05
.14
-.31
-.11
.01
9.29
-. 76
11.46P
-. 50
Bank prime rate
Treasury bill futures
June 1983 contract
Dec. 1983 contract
8.28
-.09
-.10
-. 29
-. 50
-.78
-. 65
Intermediate- and long-
term rates
U.S. Treasury (constant maturity)
15.16
3-year
14.95
10-year
14.80
30-year
Municipal (Bond Buyer)
13.44
10.054
9.154
8.78
Corporate--Aaa utility
Recently offered
16.34
11.96e
11.79e
11.03
17.66
1982
13.635
12.865
-. 33
S&L fixed-rate mort-
gage commitment
Stock prices
Dow-Jones Industrial
NYSE Composite
AMEX Composite
Lows
FOMC
Mar. 29
776.92
58.80
237.29
1131.19
87.24
383.76
12.59
1983
Intermeeting
High
268.77
159.14
NASDAO (OTC)
1. One-day quotes except as noted.
2. Averages for statement week closest to date shown.
3. Secondary market.
1232.59
95.50
451.96
12.595
May 19
1191.37
93.67
449.25
-1.04
-.27
Percent change from:
1982
FOMC
Lows Mar. 29
53.3
59.3
89.3
5.3
7.4
17.1
12.7
304.34
302.82
90.3
4. One-day quotes for preceding Thursday.
5. One-day quotes for preceding Friday.
p--preliminary. e--estimated.
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APA
Federal Reserve (1983, May 23). Greenbook/Tealbook. Greenbooks, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19830524_part1
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_greenbook_19830524_part1,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Greenbook/Tealbook},
year = {1983},
month = {May},
howpublished = {Greenbooks, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19830524_part1},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}