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CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS III - FOMC
September 18,
SUPPLEMENT
CURRENT ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Prepared for the
Federal Open Market Committee
By the Staff
Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System
1987
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Housing starts ................. ..............................
UAW-Ford Settlement .........................................
Tables
Private housing construction................................
Real gross national product and related items ...............
THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY
Senior loan officer opinion survey..........................
Tables
September 1987 senior loan officer opinion survey............
Monetary aggregates.......................................
Commercial bank credit and short- and intermediate-term
business credit...........................................
Selected financial market quotations........................
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Developments in the foreign industrial countries.............
Page
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Housing starts.
Total private housing starts edged down about 2 percent in August to
a 1.58 million unit annual rate, as a contraction in single-family starts
more than offset some increase in multifamily construction.
The August
construction pace was 2 percent below the second-quarter average and substantially less than the robust pace recorded earlier in the year.
Single-
family housing starts declined 4.5 percent in August to a 1.10 million
unit rate.
The run-up in mortgage interest rates during April and May has
damped housing demand, as reflected in the reduced pace of housing starts
and sales in recent months.
Mortgage interest rates have registered a
further increase recently, and single-family starts are expected to contract
somewhat further in the fourth quarter.
Multi-family housing starts rose
about 6 percent in August to an annual rate of 484,000 units.
This pace of
activity remains close to the second-quarter average, but is substantially
below that recorded during the first three months of the year.
UAW-Ford Settlement
Negotiators for Ford and the United Auto Workers (UAW) reached a
tentative agreement on a new three-year contract.
The settlement, if
approved by the rank-and-file, would provide additional job security
to the 104,000 workers at Ford plants and provide for a combination of
general wage increase and lump sum payments.
In particular, the tenta-
tive settlement would guarantee employment for all workers currently
employed at Ford plants except during a "strictly defined" decline in
production when temporary layoffs would be permitted.
In addition, Ford
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would replace one out of every two jobs lost through attrition.
Economic
terms reportedly include an initial base wage increase of 3 percent,
followed by lump sum payments of about 3 percent of annual earnings in
the second and third contract years; the lump sum payments will not be
rolled into the base wage.
The contract also retains the current COLA
formula, continues the profit-sharing plan, and makes some improvements
in health benefits.
PRIVATE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION
(Thousands of units, SAAR)
1987
Ql
1987
July1 Aug.2
Percent change
in Aug. from
Previous
Year
Earlier
Month
Q21
June1
1795
1612
1586
1606
1582
-1.5
-12.1
1256
539
1142
470
1088
498
1150
456
1098
484
-4.5
6.1
-6.9
-22.0
1682
1536
1517
1487
1486
0
1-family
2- or more-family
1146
536
1035
501
1039
478
993
494
1010
476
1.7
-3.6
Mobile home shipments
234
227
231
245
n.a.
n.a.
Starts
1-family
2- or more-family
Permits issued
1. Revised.
2. Preliminary.
n.a.--Not available.
-14.0
-4.6
-28.8
n.a.
9/18/87
REAL GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT AND RELATED ITEMS
(Percent change from previous period at compound annual rates;
based on seasonally adjusted data)
1987-Q2
1987-Q1
1.
Gross national product
2.
Final sales
2a. Excluding CCC purchases
3.
Consumer spending
4.
Business fixed investment
4a. Equipment
4b. Structures
5.
Residential structures
6.
Federal purchases
6a. Defense
7.
State and local purchases
8.
9.
Previous
Revised
4.4
2.3
2.5
-2.3
.0
3.4
4.1
3.5
4.2
-. 7
2.1
1.9
-14.6
-15.3
-12.8
9.3
12.7
1.0
11.7
16.5
.0
-7.7
-2.2
-2.8
-18.6
7.6
7.3
10.7
6.6
9.8
5.0
2.0
1.7
Exports
10.2
12.1
17.9
Imports
-5.2
7.4
11.1
47.6
43.9
3.7
37.8
23.4
14.3
39.0
22.7
16.3
ADDENDA:
10.
Inventory change 1
10a. Nonfarm 1
10b. Farm 1
11.
Net exports 1
12.
Nominal GNP
8.6
6.6
6.3
13.
GNP implicit price deflator
4.2
3.8
3.5
14.
GNP fixed-weighted price index
4.5
4.3
4.1
15.
Real disposable personal income
2.7
-3.9
-4.3
16.
Saving rate (percent)
4.4
3.0
3.0
17.
Corporate profits
294.0
296.5
296.8
1.
2.
-135.2
2
-133.3
Level, billions of constant dollars.
Level, billions of current dollars, with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments.
-132.7
THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY
September 1987 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices
C&I loan growth, which has been generall, sluggish for some time,
weakened considerably in July and August.
This development was wide-
spread but was particularly evident at large banks.
To help determine
the reasons for this further weakness, respondents to the Senior Loan
Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (LPS) were asked several
questions about their lending policies and loan demand.
In addition, the
standard questions on willingness to extend credit to households were
asked.
The Recent Weakness in C&I Loans.
All but a handful of LPS re-
spondents reported that their loan growth had weakened or remained about
1
unchanged in the July-August period relative to the second quarter.
A
large majority of banks reporting weaker loan growth ascribed it mainly
to weaker demand.
However, several respondents reported that tightened
lending policies or increased loan sales were responsible for reduced
loan growth. 2
According to the responses, a variety of factors accounted for the
recent weakness in loan demand.
Among the more important was a reduced
need for borrowing by C&I loan customers resulting from both lower
expenditures on inventories and fixed capital and greater internally
generated funds.
A lower level of merger and acquisition activity also
1. At the few respondents reporting a pickup in loan growth, stronger
demand was given as the cause.
2. Banks that tightened lending terms or increased loan sales reported
they did so for a number of reasons including a desire to slow asset
growth because of increased loan-loss provisions and an increase in the
perceived riskiness of C&I loans relative to their yield.
In addition, asset sales
was reported to have reduced loan demand.
were used to pay down loans used for initial financing of mergers and
acquisitions, and security issuance was used to restructure corporate
balance sheets away from short-term debt including bank loans.
Several
respondents indicated that substitution into commercial paper was a
3
further, although less important, reason for weak loan growth.
Over two-fifths of banks experiencing weaker loan demand indicated that they intended to take steps to stimulate lending activity.
Increased marketing efforts was the most frequently mentioned action, but
pricing concessions were being contemplated by a few banks.
Other banks
indicated that there was little that could be done in the face of a change
in the competitive environment, and some respondents planned to shift
corporate resources to other banking areas.
Willingness to Lend to Households.
The survey results showed some
increase in the number of respondents indicating greater willingness to
lend to households in the three months ending with the survey date.
The
number of banks indicating an increased willingness to lend rose in the
last two surveys, but remains somewhat below the number reporting increased
willingness during most of 1986.
As was the case in the previous two
surveys, the number of respondents reporting increased willingness to
extend credit to households, including home equity lending, somewhat
exceeded the number reporting increased willingness to extend credit in
3. The sharp contraction in commercial paper of nonfinancial corporations
in July and August is estimated to have been entirely due to runoffs of
merger-related paper. Short-term market interest rates were low in July
and August relative to the prime rate, and some borrowers may have used the
proceeds of commercial paper issuance to repay loans taken down under the
prime rate option of revolving credit arrangements.
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the form of consumer installment loans.
Evidently, respondents' overall
willingness to promote borrowing under home equity lines increased more
in the last nine months than willingness to extend consumer installment
credit.
(By
SENIOR LOAN OFFICER OPINION SURVEY ON BANK LENDING PRACTICES
AT SELECTED LARGE BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES
(Survey taken during the week of September 8, 1987)
(Number of banks and percent of banks answering question)
size of total domestic assets, in $ billion as of June 30, 1987)
which has been depressed through most of
1.
Commercial and industrial loan growth,
an aggregate basis in July.
a.
from seasonal influences, how
Abstracting
growth in the second quarter?
Stronger
Banks
Pct
If growth has weakened, did this
b.
31
18
13
mainly
If your bank has tightened
did this mainly reflect:
c.
its
Sales of loans from
your portfolio
Pct
Banks
terms of lending,
If
d.
0
0
C&I loan demand weakened,
All respondents
S7.5 and over
Under 57.5
n1
7
1
All respondents
S7.5 and over
Under S7.5
e.
If demand weakened,
Reduced corporate
financing needs owing
to lower expenditures
on inventories and/or
fixed investment
Average
rankl
Banks
(2.0)
(2.8)
(1.3)
(3.4)
(3.8)
(2.0)
10
P
2
loans out
of its portfolio,
Total
Banks
4
2
please rank in order of importance):
Corporate
balance
sheet
restructuring in which
securities replace bank loans
Average
rank
Banks
(2.4)
(2.4)
(2.0)
14
12
2
Reduced corporate
financing needs owing
to greater internally
Other
generated funds
Average
Average
rank1
Banks
rankl
Banks
14
4
5
(2.3)
(?.1)
(2.6)
6
2
4
(1.8)
(3.5)
(1.0)
Total
Banks
25
14
II
does your bank plan to initiate steps to stimulate demand?
No
Yes
Banks
All respondents
S7.5 and over
Under S7.5
(2.2)
(2.3)
(1.8)
31
18
13
(66.7)
(75.0)
(50.0)
4
3
1
more than one applies,
13
9
4
volume of
Total
Banks
A desire to cut back on
overall portfolio growth
owing to other reasons
Pct
Banks
(33.3)
(25.0)
(50.0)
Paydowns of merger
and acquisition loans
using proceeds of
asset divestitures
Average
rank1
Banks
(2.9)
(2.7)
(3.3)
A switch by borrowers
from bank loans to
commercial paper
Average
rank1
Banks
has sold an increased
2
1
1
did this reflect (if
Reduced merger and
acquisition activity
Average
rank1
Banks
it
(80.6)
(77.6)
(84.6)
25
14
11
A desire to cut back on
overall portfolio growth
because of additions to
loan loss provisions
Pct
Banks
(0.0)
(0.0)
(0.0)
0
or if
Weaker demand
for credit
Banks
Pet
(9.7)
(5.6)
(15.4)
3
1
2
A desire to
substitute other
assets for C&I loans
Pct
Banks
All respondents
S7.5 and over
Under S7.5
(39.0)
(34.4)
(44.4)
reflect
(9.7)
(16.7)
(0.0)
3
3
0
23
11
12
July relative to
Total
Banks
About unchanged
Pct
Banks
(52.5)
(56.3)
(48.')
Tightened terms of
lending
Pct
Banks
All resoondents
$7.5 and over
Under S7.5
growthin C&I loans at your bank in
you characterize
Weaker
Banks
Pct
(8.4)
(9.4)
(7.4)
All respondents
$7.5 and over
Under 57.5
would
eakened significantly further on
1987,
11
7
4
Banks
Rc
(44.0)
(50.0)
(36.4)
Pce
Total
Banks
(56.0)
(50.0)
(63.6)
these banks
As of June 30, 1987, 32 respondents had domestic assets of $7.5 billion or more; combined assets of
for all
trillion
$2.5
and
banks
60
of
panel
entire
the
for
billion
$810
to
compared
billion,
$670
totalled
federally insured commercial banks.
1. Average rank calculated using 1 for most important, 2 for next most important, and so on.
Note:
f.
If
C&I loan
growth
at your bank has picked up since June,
Stronger demand
Banks
Pet
All respondents
57.5 and over
Under S7.5
2.
5
(100.0)
3
2
(100.0)
(100.0)
Purchases of loans
from other banks
Banks
Pet
0
0
0
(0.0)
(0.0)
(0.0)
ainly a result of
Total
Banks
Other
Pet
Banks
0
(0.0)
0
0
(0.0)
(0.0)
Please indicate your bank's willingness to make general purpose loans to individuals now as opposed to three months ago.
"Loans to individuals" here include standard consumer installment loans plus loans taken down under home equity lines of
credit.
Much More
Banks
Pet
All respondents
$7.5 and over
Under 57.5
3.
was this
7
5
2
(12.3)
(16.7)
(7.4)
Somewhat more
Banks
Pet
11
6
5
(19.3)
(20.0)
(18.5)
About unchanged
Banks
Pct
39
19
90
(68.4)
(63.3)
(74.1)
Somewhat less
Banks
Pet
n
0
0
(0.0)
(0.0)
(0.0)
Much less
Pet
Banks
0
0
0
Total
Banks
(0.0)
(0.0)
(0.0)
Please indicate your bank's willingness to make consumer installment loans nov as opposed to three months ago.
Much More
Banks
Pet
All respondents
S7.5 and over
Under S7.5
3
(5.3)
3
(10.0)
0
(0.0)
Somewhat more
Ranks
Pet
12
6
6
(21.1)
(20.0)
(22.2)
About unchanged
Banks
Pet
42
21
21
(73.7)
(70.0)
(77.8)
Somewhat less
Banks
Pet
0
0
0
(0.0)
(0.0)
(0.0)
Much less
Banks
Pet
0
0
(0.0)
(0.0)
0
(0.0)
Total
Banks
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(Based
AGGREGATES
MONETARY
on seasonally adjusted data unless
otherwise noted)
1
Seoteber IR, 1987
noc.^
to
1987
108O: 04
----
1.
2.
3.
W1
M2
13
J;une
S2
Jilv
Percentage change at annual
15.3
8.9
13.1
6.3
8.8
A.4
6.4
2.3
3.R
Crowvt
fro
04 1986 to
Aug. 1Q87P
rates -----
-10.4
1.6
0.6
2.5
1.7
4.8
Aug.
Levels in billions
of dollars
Aug. 1987
Selected comoonents
4.
"1-A
5.
Currency
6.
Demand
deoosict
7.
Other checkable deposits
R.
"2 minus M12
vernirht RPs and Eurodollars, 4SA
reneral nuroose and broker/dealer nonev
market mutual fund shares, NSA
Commercial banks
qavines deposits. qA,
3
olus MMDAs, NSA
Small time deposits
Thrift institutions
Savings deoosits, SA,
3
olus "MMAs, NSA
Small time deposits
0.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Ia.
20.
21.
22.
23.
4
minus M2
M3
Large time deposits
5
At comercial banks, net
At thrift
institutions
Institution-onlv mney nmrket
mutual fund shares, NSA
Term RPs, NSA
Term Eurodollars, NSA
-EMORANDA:
24.
Manaed
liabilities
28.
29.
Large time deposits, gross
Nondeposit funds
Net due to related foreign
institutions,
NSA
6
Other
U.S.
wovernrent
7
banks
1. Dollar
5.5
?.7
7.5
10.1
6.6
5.7
11.6
2.5
0.0
-25.7
28.5
29.7
14.0
-4.8
-13.4
-7.5
1.4
406.5
A.3
6.9
193.2
-4.8
'.8
296.4
6.2
9.5
254.5
'.8
A.1
A.9
4.0
14.7
1I.9
-26.3
-24.3
1.7
44.5
75.5
17.3
6.8
-".6
-1.4
0.3
3.6
I.2
1.1
2.7
17.1
2.8
213.4
6.0
16.0
-4.2
13.4
-4.9
n.8
-4.6
-n.7
11.1
-2.
11.0
0.4
4.3
4.0
5.0
5.4
3.3
5.0
542.0
365.3
921.8
.1*
4.7
(,.3
2109.3
907.3
12.0
14.3
9.7
n.3
-1.6
-4.0
-1.2
-4.3
0.9
0.9
12.7
12.8
421.5
500.4
8.4
6.4
10.0
21.2
-1.5
14.1
733.7
3.0
2.7
3.4
2.9
9.7
-0.5
9.3
18.3
-8.4
13.8
16.2
8.9
-0.5
-5.3
8.8
4.6
n.4
14.3
466.6
313.6
153.0
30.3
28.3
3.2
0.9
14.4
34.0
-11.4
55.4
-0.5
-7.3
24.9
33.1
31.0
-25.6
-48.3
".0
3.7
102.1
83.4
96.6
Average
onthly change in billions of dollars --
03.1
at caaircial
hanks (25+26)
25.
26.
27.
10.0
2.0
0.6
1.4
8.3
2.8
5.5
6.0
6.3
-0.3
2.0
6.7
-4.7
-a.l
-1.1
-8.0
5.0
-0.9
5.9
529.6
370.9
158.7
0.6
0.8
4.3
1.3
1.4
-1.7
-1 .
-3.0
-'.7
-2.1
6.3
-0.6
-1.3
159.9
deposits at coamercial
0.4
-1.2
3.4
1
ounts shown under memoranda are calculated on an end-month-of-ouarter
.8
-3.2
&.6
hasts.
2. Nontransactioas M2 is seasonally adjusted as a whole.
3. Growth rates are for savingr
deposits, seasonally adlusted, olus money market deposit accounts (MMAs),
not seasonally adjusted.
Coaercial bank savings deposits excluding MHMD increased during July and August 1987 at rates
of 7.5 nercent and 9.5 percent, respectively.
At thrift
institutions, savlngs deposits excluding I IMs increased
during July and August 1987 at rates of 2.0 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively.
4. The non-2 comonent of M3 is seasonally adlusted as a whole.
5. Net of larfe-denomination tim deposits held by money
rket mutual funds and thrift
institutions.
6. Consists of horrowings froa other than cnm ercial hanks in the form of federal fnids purchased, securities sold
under agreemnts to repurchase, and other liabilities
for borrowd money (including borrowins from the Federal
Reserve and unaffiliated foreien hanks, loan RPs and other minor items).
Data are partially estimated.
7. Consists of Treasury demnd deposits and note balances at comercial banks.
o--oreliminary
-11COMMERCIAL BANK CREDIT AND SHORT- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM
BUSINESS
CREDIT
(Percentage changes at annual rates, based on seasonally adJusted data)
198:04
to
1oR6:4
..
1I
C r2
J
Juane
ulyC
Aug.
1
V
September 18,
1987
Levels in
bil. of dollars
Aug.P
Coamercial Bank Credit
1.
2.
Total loans and securities
at banks
Securities
3.
I'.S.
4.
Other securities
5.
6.
Total
governent securities
loans
Security loans
8.
Real estate loans
10.
Consumer loans
7.0
7.7
14.2
2.4
4.4
11.9
5.7
18.0
-2.8
8.4
8.4
6.6
Business loans
7.
O.
9.8
2
2
Other loans
13.
Sum of lines 11 & 12
14.
Commercial paper issued by
nonfinancial firms
Il.
Sums of lines 13 & 14
16.
Bankers acceptances:
4 5
related ,
17.
-5.3
3.0
16.0
523.5
3.3
-12.0
11.0
33.0
328.6
6.1
5.5
-9.8
-12.2
194.9
P.7
6.3
0.8
9.0
1665.2
4.6
4.8
-5.2
0.0
555.5
-17.0
6;.2
44.0
-3.1
41.8
14.1
17.9
19.3
21.1
13.8
15.7
551.2
7.3
2.1
0.5
-2.7
3.1
8.4
316.8
5.4
0.0
0.0
-13.0
-16.P
4.8
107.7
3
Loans at foreign branches
10.6
-3.7
Business loans net of bankers
acceptances
12.
Short-
and Intermediate-Term
8.1
4.0
4.8
-2.4
-14.7
-7.6
7.8
3.4
4.5
-13.0
17.6
-16.2
Business
Credit ----
-4.8
-2.0
549.1
45.9
73.6
17.3
-3.4
-14.9
0.2
-16.6
566.4
78.4
4.9
5.2
5.1
2.0
-4.8
-1.9
-3.9
2.5
23.8
25.4
46.2
n.a.
35.1 (July)
4.4
5.0
6.1
3.0
-2.3
n.a.
680.9 (July)
188.9 (July)
U.S. trade
Line 15 plus hankers acceptances:
T.S.
218R.7
1.3
5.7
------
11.
7.6
3.6
trade related
18.
rinance company loans to busine*l
19.
Total short- and interrediatetem business credit (sm of
lines 17 & 18)
4
11.7
14.7
17.9
15.0
16.7
n.a.
5.8
7.0
A.6
5.6
1.8
n.a.
RAA.8
1. Averare of Wednesdays.
2. June growth rates for real estate and consumr loans are adiusted for series breaks caused by earlier
reporting errors for hom equity loans.
3. Loans at foreign branches are loans made to n.S. firms by foreign branches of domestically chartered banks.
ends of onth.
4. Based on average of current and recedli
of goods.
5. Consists of acceptances that finance U.S. imports, U.S. exports and domestic shiment and storae
n.a.--not available.
p--preliminary.
(July)
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III-T-1
SELECTEDFINANCIAL MARKET QUOTATIONS 1/
(percent)
1986
harge frm:
1987
FPC
F 18
Avg 18 Sept 3 Sept 17 Sept 3 Aug 18
lamC2
Shrt-term rates
Federal ftmds 3/
eesury bllUs V
1-year
5.75
6.90
6.66
6.5
7.20
0.35
5.04
5.05
5.25
6.02
6.28
6.80
6.02
6.18
6.50
6.19
6.98
6.98
6.38
76.08
7.10
0.19
0.54
0.38
0.12
Ocnermial papw
1- onth
3-a lth
5.64
7.16
6.96
6.62
6.88
7.3
0.46
0.72
5.60
Lare ntiable CD's 4
12 nt
5.59
7.07
7.33
765
6.62
6.72
6.96
6.90
5.57
5.57
7.01
7.7
7.35
7.87
0.46
0.43
0.52
0.74
0.72
0.91
5.79
5.79
7.05
7.3
6.65
6.93
7.01
7.11
7.3
7.4
0.3
0.33
0.71
0.51
7.50
8.25
8.25
8.25
8.75
0.50
0.50
6.41
7.28
7.53
8.35
8
9.0
.97
8.48
873
8.95
9.29
9.47
8.69
9.48
0.21
0.19
0.72
0.75
7.30
8.68
8.04
8.47
8.65
0.18
0.61
10.27
10.34 e 10.60e 10.90 e 0.30
0.56
10.81
8.01
10.34
7.78
0.28
0.12
0.5
0.18
urodollar deposits 5/
1-lmnth
3-cnth
BhEr
prle rte
Intermediate- ard lore-ter
30-year
Mzncalps reve 6/
(Band BAer ndex
Crtility
moantly offered
H e
rates 7/
AIM, 1-year
.89
.98
1986
aige
Stock prices
s Inbtral
Do-JE Cpote
AM
Cozite
HASMQ ( t)
6.97
7.
0.78
0.50
rates
Sreasury (onstant mturity)
U.S.
6.69
10.91
7.96
10.6
7.8
FOc
oao d
Aug 18 Sept 17 higes
57 272.42 2654.66
9
184.12
145.75
2M.19
411.16
5.
45526
0.70
0.18
Parent aterge nr:
1987
bcorrd
higbe
9.65
176.48
2.61
.98
4.76 075
I/ Oe-day quotes except ee ntd.
rates.
V Low period ftr br-t
3 Avwervs ftr tOu-ee rem e Mintere n eriods
olset to date mat , Bept Sapt. 3 Wtci Is e4ak
averge ed1rug Sept. 2. Last dservaticn is the awr
todate fr the inteao period ndig Sept. 23, 198.
/ Seoo-dary market.
Au
no:
18
477
-7.15
-4.15
.12
3-40
-3.19
-1.50
-1.35
5/ A srage fr ~atateet wk
lomset to date sx n.
7/ Ovtes fbr week ndinM
Fridy losest to date
ab-t te.
0-ftia
te
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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
Developments
in the Foreign Industrial Countries
Japanese real GNP showed no growth in the second quarter after an
upward-revised 5.3 percent (s.a.a.r.) growth rate in the first quarter.
Domestic demand made a stronger contribution to growth in the second
quarter--l.2 percentage points
(s.a.)
(s.a.)
in the previous quarter.
compared to 0.8 percentage point
Consumer spending and housing
investment were two principal sources of growth.
This strength in
domestic demand was offset by a sizable negative contribution of net
exports, -1.1 percentage points.
Imports surged 5.9 percent (s.a.)
while exports declined 1.6 percent (s.a.).
Money growth increased sharply in August.
relative to a year earlier.
M2+CDs grew 11 percent
The Bank of Japan attributed the surge in
M2+CDs to a sharp increase in the demand for long-term funds in
anticipation of higher interest rates.
Cite this document
APA
Federal Reserve (1987, September 21). Greenbook/Tealbook. Greenbooks, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19870922_part2
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_greenbook_19870922_part2,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Greenbook/Tealbook},
year = {1987},
month = {Sep},
howpublished = {Greenbooks, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19870922_part2},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}