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CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS III - FOMC
July 2, 1987
SUPPLEMENT
CURRENT ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Prepared for the
Federal Open Market Committee
By the Staff
Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Page
Employment and unemployment in June . .............
1
Tables
Changes in employment .
. . . . . . . .
. . .
. . .
.
...
3
4
Hourly earnings index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . ..
THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY
Monetary aggregates and bank credit in June . . . . .
. . . ..
5
Tables
Monetary aggregates ....
. . . . .
. . . . . .
. ...
.
6
.
7
. ...........
8
Commercial bank credit and short- and intermediateterm business credit
.................
Selected financial market quotations
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Employment and Unemployment in June
Nonfarm employment, as measured by the establishment survey, grew
116,000 after a downward-revised increase of 74,000 in May. 1
Employment in
the service-producing sector, which only rose about 100,000 in June, has
slowed considerably from the pace in the first part of the year.
In June,
almost half of the job pickup in the service-producing sector occurred at
state and local governments, where 46,000 new jobs were added; a pickup of
47,000 in the services industry, and small gains in finance, insurance, and
real estate, and retail trade accounted for the balance of the growth.
Employment gains in the goods-producing industry were lackluster as manufacturing employment rose only 4,000; outside of manufacturing, construction
employment increased 13,000 and mining fell slightly.
Employment, as measured by the household survey, fell 190,000, but
the labor force dropped nearly half a million.
As a result, the civilian
unemployment rate declined 0.2 percentage points to 6.1 percent.
More than
two-thirds of the drop in unemployment was the result of fewer young people
than normal entering the labor force as of the early June survey week.
The
jobless rate for teenagers, a particularly volatile series, dropped almost
2 percentage points.
Unemployment also declined among adult women, with
their rate edging down 0.2 percentage points to 5.2 percent.
The unemploy-
ment rate for adult men remained unchanged in June.
1. The downward revision of 60,000 jobs to the May figure was more than
accounted for by the service-producing sector which was revised down 68,000.
The services industry was revised down 25,000, government 22,000 and retail
trade 16,000.
-2-
Wage rates, as measured by the hourly earnings index for production
and nonsupervisory workers, increased 0.2 percent after remaining flat in
May.
The small pickup in wages was widespread across industries.
Over the
past 12 months, the hourly earnings index has risen 2.3 percent for the private nonfarm economy and 1.5 percent in manufacturing.
-3CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT 1
(Thousands of employees; based on seasonally adjusted data)
1985
1987
Q1
1986
Q4
1986
1987
Q2
Apr.
1987
May
June
-- Average monthly changesNonfarm payroll employment 2
Manufacturing
Durable
Nondurable
Construction
Trade
Finance and services
Total government
Private nonfarm production
workers
Manufacturing production
workers
Total employment 3
Nonagricultural
254
8
0
8
32
57
124
18
153
11
2
9
-8
31
87
22
269
16
-1
17
-13
67
116
61
106
199
94
156
44
83
-7
18
6
19
14
14
29
174 e
174 e
217
210
244
203
296
332
467
461
612
567
-190
-33
213
-30
-22
-8
20
60
130
34
159
-14
-17
152
105
-27
162
182
4
13
31
110
30
1. Average change from final month of preceding period to final month of period
indicated.
Strike-adjusted data noted.
2. Survey of establishments.
3. Survey of households.
e--Adjusted by Board staff to eliminate distortions caused by the introduction of
revised population estimates.
SELECTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
(Percent; based on seasonally adjusted data)
1985
1986
1986
Q4
1987
Q1
1987
Q2
Civilian, 16 years and older
7.2
7.0
6.9
6.7
Teenagers
20-24 years old
Men, 25 years and older
Women, 25 years and older
18.6
11.1
5.3
5.9
18.3
10.7
5.4
5.5
17.8
10.5
5.4
5.3
White
Black
6.2
15.1
6.0
14.5
6.8
7.1
Fulltime workers
Memo:
Total national1
Apr.
1987
May
June
6.2
6.3
6.3
6.1
17.9
10.4
5.2
5.1
17.0
10.1
4.8
4.6
17.4
10.1
4.8
4.7
17.7
9.8
4.9
4.7
15.9
10.2
4.7
4.4
6.0
14.1
5.7
14.2
5.3
13.2
5.4
13.0
5.3
13.8
5.2
12.7
6.6
6.5
6.3
5.9
5.9
5.9
5.9
6.9
6.7
6.6
6.1
6.2
6.2
6.0
1. Includes resident Armed Forces as employed.
-4-
HOURLY EARNINGS INDEX 1
(Percentage change; based on seasonally adjusted data) 2
1986
1986
Q4
1987
Q1
Q2
--Annual rateTotal private nonfarm
Manufacturing
Durable
Nondurable
Contract construction
Transportation and
public utilities
Finance, insurance,
and real estate
Total trade
Services
Apr.
1987
May
June
--Monthly rate-
2.3
3.3
2.1
2.6
,3
.1
.2
1.7
1.3
2.3
2.2
1.4
.9
2.3
6.1
1.5
.3
3.5
-2.7
2.1
2.1
2.1
3.4
.4
.5
.3
.0
-.4
-.1
-.9
.3
.2
.3
.2
.4
2.8
3.6
3.2
4.1
.3
.4
.4
4.4
1.8
3.1
6.3
2.9
4.7
9.7
.7
4.2
.5
2.4
3.3
-.2
.4
.2
.1
.3
.2
-. 1
-. 1
.3
1. Excludes the effect of interindustry shifts in employment and
fluctuations in overtime hours in manufacturing.
2. Changes over periods longer than one quarter are measured from final
quarter of preceding period to final quarter of period indicated.
Quarterly changes are compounded annual rates.
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THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY
Monetary Aggregates and Bank Credit in June
Latest data indicate that growth in the monetary aggregates during
June was weaker than estimates presented in the Greenbook.
M1 is now esti-
mated to have contracted at a 10 percent annual rate in June, with particular weakness in demand deposits.
Estimated growth of M2 in June has been
reduced to a 1 percent rate, owing to downward revisions in both M1 and the
nontransactions component of M2.
Downward revisions to savings deposits,
overnight RPs and Eurodollars, and MMDAs more than offset an upward revision
in small time deposits.
M2 growth from the fourth quarter of 1986 to June
is now placed at 4 percent.
Slower growth in M2 was the principal contri-
butor to a downward revision in M3 growth in June to 6 percent.
This
change leaves M3 at about the low end of its target range.
Bank credit data for June also have been revised downward.
Total
loans and investments are now estimated to have expanded at an annual rate
of 4 percent.
The major revisions among components of bank credit include
securities holdings, now estimated to have declined at a 2-1/2 percent
annual rate last month, and consumer loans, which now appear to have contracted slightly.
(Based
-6MONETARY AGGREGATES
on seasonally adjusted data unless otherwise noted)1
1985:Q4
to
1986:04
----
1.
2.
3.
M1
M2
M3
15.3
8.9
8.8
01
02Pe
1987
Apr.
May
July 2,
JunePe
1987
Growth from
Q4 1986 to
June 1987Pe
Percentage change at annual rates ---13.1
6.3
6.4
6-1/2
2-1/2
4-1/4
17.7
6.0
5.9
7-3/4
4
5-1/2
4.5
0.6
4.9
Levels in
billions
of dollars
May 1987
Selected components
7.5
10.1
6-1/2
7.7
8.3
6
Demand deposits
11.6
2.5
1/4
18.8
0.0
-25
304.0
6.
Other checkable deposits
28.5
29.7
14-1/4
24.9
7.2
-3
252.3
7.
M2 minus M12
6.9
3.9
1-1/4
2.0
-0.8
5
14.7
10.9
-23-3/4
-3.2
-20.8
-16
17.3
6.8
6.2
6.0
1-1/4
-1-1/4
1.1
-1.9
-8.5
-6.2
5
4
210.3
900.4
16.0
-4.2
4.3
13.4
-4.9
3.9
1
-4-1/2
5-1/2
2.4
-8.3
5.3
-9.4
-1.3
2.8
0
10
7
543.3
357.1
911.9
12.0
-1.2
14.3
-4.6
10.0
1.2
4.5
1.2
1
12
425.4
486.5
8.3
6.8
5.3
22.6
23
715.6
3.0
2.7
3.4
2.9
9.7
-9.7
9-1/2
18-1/2
-8-1/2
12.0
13.2
15
27.7
-19.1
18.4
2.4
19
8
459.6
310.6
149.0
30.3
28.3
2.7
0.9
14.4
38.1
-11-1/2
55-1/2
10
-25.4
86.2
-47.1
4.
Currency
5.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Overnight RPs and Eurodollars, NSA
General purpose and broker/dealer money
market mutual fund shares, NSA
Commercial banks
Savings deposits, SA,
3
plus MMDAs, NSA
Small time deposits
Thrift institutions
Savings deposits, SA,
3
plus MMDAs, NSA
Small time deposits
M3 minus M24
Large time deposits
At commercial banks, net 5
At thrift institutions
Institution-only money market
mutual fund shares, NSA
Term RPs, NSA
Term Eurodollars, NSA
-MEMORANDA:
23.
Managed liabilities
at commercial
banks (24+25)
24.
Large time deposits, gross
25.
Nondeposit funds
26.
Net due to related foreign
institutions, NSA
6
Other
27.
9-3/4
1-3/4
11
Average monthly change in
2.0
0.6
1.4
8.4
2.8
5.6
5-1/4
6-1/4
-1
0.6
0.8
4.4
1.2
-2
1
-18.8
190.2
2086.7
73.8
81.8
96.3
89.8
69.9
57.4
billions of dollars --
2.1
5.7
-3.6
14.2
6.4
7.8
-6
532.1
366.2
165.9
-3.6
0.0
10.1
-2.3
-4
-2
0.5
165.4
1
7
U.S. government deposits at commercial
7
banks
0.4
-1.2
3-1/2
3.0
5.5
2
26.1
1. Dollar amounts shown under memoranda are calculated on an end-month-of-quarter basis.
2. Nontransactions M2 is seasonally adjusted as a whole.
3. Growth rates are for savings deposits, seasonally adjusted, plus money market deposit accounts (MMDAs), not seasonally adjusted.
Commercial bank savings deposits excluding MMDAs increased during May and June 1987 at rates
of 16.0 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
At thrift institutions, savings deposits excluding MMDAs increased
during May and June 1987 at rates of 17.5 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
4. The non-M2 component of M3 is seasonally adjusted as a whole.
5. Net of large-denomination time deposits held by money market mutual funds and thrift
institutions.
28.
6. Consists of borrowings from other than commercial banks in the form of federal funds purchased, securities sold
under agreements to repurchase, and other liabilities for borrowed money (including borrowings from the Federal
Reserve and unaffiliated foreign banks, loan RPs and other minor items).
Data are partially estimated.
7. Consists of Treasury demand deposits and note balances at commercial banks.
pe--preliminary estimate
-7COMMERCIAL BANK CREDIT AND SHORT- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM BUSINESS CREDIT
1
(Percentage changes at annual rates, based on seasonally adjusted data)
1986
Q4
Q1
-------
1.
2.
Total loans and securities
at banks
U.S.
4.
Other securities
5.
goverment securities
Business loans
7.
Security loans
8.
Real estate loans
9.
Consumer loans
10.
2
11.9
7.4
6.0
2.4
5.3
7.5
11.2
20.2
5.7
3.8
5.7
16.3
-10.5
317.3
-14.5
-2.8
7.8
10.4
2.4
10.3
199.3
9.1
8.4
8.6
13.3
6.3
6.1
1651.2
18.5
7.6
4.2
4.8
4.1
3.5
557.4
-39.3
-3.1
36.6
166.1
-44.0
-5.7
41.8
16.3
17.9
19.1
16.1
19.6
20.7
536.9
5.3
2.1
1.3
3.8
0.4
-0.4
315.1
-20.5
0.0
0.6
15.6
-1.1
---
11.
Business loans net of bankers
acceptances
3
12.
Loans at foreign branches
13.
Sum of lines 11 & 12
14.
Commercial paper issued by
nonfinancial firms
15.
Sums of lines 13 & 14
16.
Bankers acceptances:
related4 ,5
17.
3.9
2167.7
-2.5
516.6
-11.9
200.0
- Short- and Intermediate-Term Business Credit -
18.8
8.1
-27.3
-2.4
-19.6
17.2
7.9
2.8
-19.1
-13.0
17.6
12.3
3.3
3.4
3.1
551.5
-22.8
15.4
1.1
2.5
567.1
28.6
-16.2
80.5
647.6
-71.4
-
5.3
4.6
9.0
4.5
0.2
2.5
n.a.
33.9
11.0
n.a.
33.1 (May)
10.8
5.1
n.a.
10.4
4.8
n.a.
680.7 (May)
11.2
14.7
n.a.
16.8
n.a.
n.a.
180.8 (Apr)
10.9
7.0
n.a.
11.7
n.a.
n.a.
858.8 (Apr)
U.S. trade
-16.9
Line 15 plus bankers acceptances:
U.S. trade related
18.
Finance company loans to business
19.
Total short- and intermediateterm business credit (sum of
lines 17 & 18)
Commercial Bank Credit ------------
7.8
2
Other loans
JuneP
7.0
Total loans
6.
May
1987
Levels in
bil. of dollars
JuneP
8.4
Securities
3.
Q2P
1987
Apr.
July 2,
4
n.a.--not available.
p--preliminary.
1. Average of Wednesdays.
2. June growth rates for real estate and consumer loans are adjusted for series breaks caused by earlier
reporting errors for home equity loans.
3. Loans at foreign branches are loans made to U.S. firms by foreign branches of domestically chartered banks.
4. Based on average of current and preceding ends of month.
5. Consists of acceptances that finance U.S. imports, U.S. exports and domestic shipment and storage of goods.
-8SELECTED FINANCIAL MARKET QUOTATIONS 1
(Percent)
Change from:
FOMC
FOMC
Mar. 31 May 19
June
highs
Oct.
lows
FOMC
Mar. 31
1987
FOMC
May 19
Federal funds 2
6.90
5.75
6.11
6.78
6.70
.59
-.08
Treasury bills 3
3-month
6-month
1-year
6.52
6.57
6.62
5.04
5.05
5.25
5.61
5.74
5.78
5.78
6.27
6.80
5.64
5.81
6.22
.03
.07
.44
-.14
-.46
-.58
Commercial paper
1-month
3-month
6.87
6.81
5.64
5.60
6.39
6.31
6.95
7.07
6.80
6.86
.41
.55
-.15
-.21
Large negotiable CDs 3
1-month
3-month
6-month
6.88
6.91
6.97
5.59
5.57
5.57
6.30
6.30
6.31
6.97
7.15
7.41
6.80
6.87
7.03
.50
.57
.72
-. 17
-.28
-.38
Eurodollar deposits 4
1-month
3-month
7.01
7.01
5.79
5.79
6.38
6.36
6.81
7.10
7.01
7.08
.63
.72
.20
-.02
Bank prime rate
8.50
7.50
7.50
8.25
8.25
.75
U.S. Treasury (constant maturity)
3-year
6.41
7.86
10-year
8.39
7.28
30-year
7.93
7.53
6.79
7.51
7.81
8.27
8.89
9.06
7.72
8.36
8.49
.93
.85
.68
-. 55
-.53
-.57
Municipal revenue 5
(Bond Buyer index)
8.57
7.30
7.11
8.20
8.16
1.05
-.04
Corporate--A utility
Recently offered
9.70
9.32
9.05
10.26e
10.Ole
.96
-. 25
10.76
8.65
9.89
7.98
9.07
7.53
1.28
.35
-.13
.01
1986
Jul. 1
Short-term rates
Intermediate- and long-term rates
Home mortgage rates 6
S&L fixed-rate
S&L ARM, 1-yr.
1986
Highs
Stock prices
1955.57
Dow-Jones Industrial
145.75
NYSE Composite
285.19
AMEX Composite
NASDAQ (OTC)
411.16
1. One-day quotes except as noted.
March
highs
10.48
10.35
7.87
7.88
1987
FOMC
Jul. 1
May 19
Percent change from:
FOMC
March
May 19
highs
8.49
1.57
2409.76
2221.28
7.97
157.93
170.52
-.33
3.95
-.41
337.91
325.07
408.15
424.46
-3.45
4.00
4. Averages for statement week closest
to date shown.
2. Averages for two-week reserve maintenance period
5. One-day quotes for preceding Thursday.
closest to date shown. Last observation is the
6. One-day quotes for preceding Friday.
average for the maintenance period ending
e--estimate
July 1, 1987.
3. Secondary market.
2372.59
171.08
339.31
439.64
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BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_greenbook_19870707_part1,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Greenbook/Tealbook},
year = {1987},
month = {Jul},
howpublished = {Greenbooks, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19870707_part1},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}