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DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Date:
June 24, 1999
To:
Members of the Federal Open Market Committee
From:
Thomas A. Connors
Subject:
Corrected Table, Greenbook Part 1, page 1-38.
STRICTLY-CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS II - FOMC
Attached is a corrected table, Impact of Alternative Assumptions, contained in
Greenbook Part 1, page 1-38. The table has been corrected to reflect the current baseline
assumptions for U.S. real GDP and the U.S. CPI.
STRICTLY-CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS II - FOMC
Part1: Summary and Outlook, June 24, 1999
I-38
Impact of Alternative Assumptions
(Percent change, Q4 to Q4)
Measure
1999
2000
3.7
3.8
3.9
2.6
2.9
4.1
U.S. real GDP
Baseline
Stronger foreign GDP growth
Stronger foreign growth and weaker dollar1
U.S. CPIexcluding food and energy
2.1
2.5
Baseline
2.6
2.1
Stronger foreign GDP growth
3.4
2.2
Stronger foreign growth and weaker dollar1
NOTE. All simulations assume federal funds rate unchanged from
baseline.
1. Assumes dollar path falls an additional 10 percent below baseline.
CONFIDENTIAL (FR)
CLASS III - FOMC
June 25, 1999
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
Page
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Real Gross Domestic Product, 1999:Q1 .................................
1
Consumer Sentiment .................
3
.............................
Sales and Prices of Existing Homes ....................................
3
Shipments and Orders of Durable Goods ................................
6
Tables
Real Gross Domestic Product and Related Items ..........................
2
University of Michigan Survey Research Center:
Survey of Consumer Attitudes ................
4
.................
The Market of Existing Homes ......................................
5
Orders and Shipments of Durable Goods ................................
7
Changes in Manufacturing and Trade Inventories ..........................
10
Charts
Recent Data on Orders and Shipments ..................................
8
Inventory-Sales Ratios, by Major Sector .................................
11
THE FINANCIAL ECONOMY
Tables
Selected Financial Market Quotations ....................................
12
Commercial Bank Credit .............................................
13
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES
THE DOMESTIC NONFINANCIAL ECONOMY
Real Gross Domestic Product. 1999:Q1
According to the BEA's final estimate, real GDP increased at an annual rate of 4.3
percent in the first quarter after having advanced at a 6.0 percent annual rate in the fourth
quarter of 1998. Growth in real final sales slowed in the first quarter, but still posted a solid
increase of 4.6 percent (annual rate). The slowdown in final sales reflected a substantial swing
in the contribution from net exports, which had been boosted by transitory factors in the fourth
quarter.
The final estimate of the first-quarter increase in real GDP was 0.2 percentage point
higher than that in the preliminary release. The change owes mainly to upward revisions in
net exports and nonresidential structures. The final estimate was a bit weaker than that
anticipated in the June Greenbook because of marginally smaller than anticipated contributions
from state and local consumption and investment, personal consumption expenditures, and net
exports.
The GDP chain price index rose at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter,
compared with 0.9 percent over the four quarters of 1998. The first-quarter increase was 0.1
percentage point higher than that in the preliminary estimate, the result of small upward
revisions to the inflation estimates in several expenditure categories.
Real disposable personal income rose 3.5 percent in the first quarter, 3/4 percentage
point lower than in the preliminary release, and the personal saving rate was revised down to
-0.7 percent. The downward revisions owe to BEA's incorporation of data on tax collections
this spring, which showed higher estimates of federal income tax payments than assumed
earlier.
Corporate profits (with inventory valuation and capital consumption adjustments)
increased $47.1 billion in 1999:Q1 following a decline of $5.3 billion in 1998:Q4 when profits
were held down $13.5 billion by tobacco company payments related to litigation settlements.
The revised estimate is $15 billion higher than estimated in the preliminary report and raised
the share of profits (excluding Federal Reserve banks) in GNP to 9.6 percent.
6-25-99
Real Gross Domestic Product and Related Items
(Percent change from previous period at compound annual rates;
based on seasonally adjusted data, chain-type indexes)
1.
2.
Gross domestic product
Final sales
Consumer spending
3.
1999:Q1
Final
1998:Q4
Final
1999:Q1
Preliminary
6.0
4.1
4.3
6.6
4.3
4.6
5.0
6.8
6.7
24.5
12.9
12.9
4.
Durables
5.
Nondurables
4.2
9.4
9.5
6.
Services
1.7
4.3
4.1
14.6
7.9
8.5
17.8
9.7
9.5
6.0
2.9
5.7
10.0
15.4
15.4
7.3
-1.7
-1.9
7.
Business fixed investment
8.
Producers' durable equipment
9.
Nonresidential structures
Residential investment
10.
11.
Federal government consumption
expenditures and investment
12.
State and local government consumption
expenditures and investment
1.3
7.7
7.7
13.
Exports of goods and services
19.7
-6.8
-5.1
14.
Imports of goods and services
12.0
14.2
13.5
37.5
34.7
35.1
6.8
1.5
1.5
30.7
33.2
33.6
ADDENDA:
15.
Nonfarm inventory investment
16.
Motor vehicles 1
17.
Excl. motor vehicles 1
1
18.
Net exports of goods and services 1
19.
Nominal GDP
20.
GDP price index
21.
Profit share 2
22.
(Excluding FR banks)
23.
Real disposable personal income
24.
Personal saving rate (percent)
1.
2.
-250.0
Level, billions of chained (1992) dollars.
Economic profits as a share of nominal GNP.
-2-
-310.1
-303.6
6.9
5.6
6.0
.8
1.5
1.6
9.5
9.7
9.9
9.2
9.4
9.6
4.3
4.3
3.5
.0
-. 6
-. 7
Consumer Sentiment
According to the final report, the Michigan Survey Research Center (SRC) index of
consumer sentiment rose 1/2 percentage point in June.1 Expectations of future business
conditions improved considerably in June. However, respondents' assessments of their
current finances were little changed this month, and their views concerning their future
finances dipped a bit. Appraisals of buying conditions for large household appliances fell back
in June after having climbed to a historical high in May.
Responses to questions that are not included in the overall index were somewhat mixed
in June. The index of expected unemployment change fell sharply indicating a substantial
improvement in assessments of labor market conditions over the next twelve months. In
addition, households' willingness to use savings to finance a major purchase soared in June to
its highest level since September 1984. However, appraisals of buying conditions for cars and
for homes moved lower in June, reflecting, in part, some dissatisfaction with current interest
rates.
The mean of expected inflation over the next twelve months edged down 0.1
percentage point to 3.1 percent, but the median declined 1/4 percentage point to 2.5 percent.
The mean of expected inflation over the next five to ten years declined 0.2 percentage point to
3.3 percent, and the median fell 0.1 percentage point to 2.8 percent.
Sales and Prices of Existing Homes
Sales of existing homes declined 4 percent in May to an annual rate of 5.04 million
units. With this decrease, existing home sales are down 7 percent from their record high in
March. Existing home sales respond to changing market conditions with a lag because many
of them are recorded at the time a sale is closed rather than when the sales contract is signed.
The recent declines in existing home sales follow a falloff in new home sales between
December and March. In April, however, new home sales increased 9-1/4 percent, and other,
1. The increase shown in the final tabulations was less than shown in the preliminary June report, which
was released on June 11 and showed the index up more than 2 percentage points.
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THE MARKET FOR EXISTING HOUSES
1998
1998
Q3
1999
Q4
1999
Q1
Mar.
Apr.
May
5,040
-4.0
Sales 1
Total
Percent Change
4,970
13.4
4,980
0.7
5,100
2.4
5,207
2.1
5,420
5.4
5,250
-3.1
Previously reported level
4,970
4,980
5,100
5,207
5,420
5,240
Regional Sales
Northeast
Midwest
South
West
662
1,130
1,868
1,309
660
1,123
1,867
1,333
657
1,173
1,930
1,337
687
1,153
2,023
1,347
720
1,190
2,110
1,400
660
1,150
2,030
1,420
630
1,100
2,000
1,320
Inventories
Existing homes for sale 2
2,086
2,047
2,086
2,080
2,080
2,119
2,083
5.2
5.0
4.8
4.7
4.6
4.8
5.0
Prices 4
Average
Percent change
159.1
5.7
161.9
5.2
159.1
4.5
161.6
5.9
162.3
5.9
163.8
4.9
167.9
5.3
Median
Percent change
128.4
5.4
130.7
5.0
128.7
4.8
129.3
4.5
129.6
4.0
130.7
3.9
133.1
3.3
Repeat Sales Index 5
Percent change
154.9
5.7
156.1
5.8
157.8
5.4
159.5
4.9
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
ND
Months' supply 3
Note: Annual and quarterly levels are averages of monthly data.
1. Thousands of units, seasonally adjusted annual rate, except where noted.
Percent change is from previous comparable period.
2. Thousands of units, seasonally adjusted, end of period stock.
3. At current sales rate; expressed as the ratio of seasonally adjusted
inventories to seasonally adjusted sales.
4. Price levels are expressed in thousands of dollars and are not seasonally
adjusted. Percent changes are from the previous comparable period a year
earlier.
5. The index equals 100 in the first quarter of 1987.
ND--data not reported on a monthly basis.
June 25, 1999
more timely indicators of housing demand--such as builders' ratings of new home sales and
applications for home mortgages--rose from April through June.
The year-over-year increase in the median price of existing homes was 3.3 percent in
May, the lowest such increase recorded over the past twelve months. The average price was
up 5.3 percent from a year earlier, which is near the midpoint of the distribution of such
increases over the past twelve months. These price series do not adjust for compositional
changes in the structural characteristics and amenities of homes sold. The most recent
observation for the repeat-sales price index for existing homes--which holds constant some of
the compositional shifts that can affect the median and average prices--shows a 4.9 percent
increase in the first quarter from a year earlier. 2
Shipments and Orders of Durable Goods
New orders for durable goods rose 1.4 percent in May. A big increase in the volatile
series for aircraft orders accounted for all of the gain: Excluding aircraft, orders edged off
0.2 percent last month. The staff's constructed series on real adjusted durable goods orders-which strips out nondefense aircraft, defense capital goods, and industries for which reported
orders actually equal shipments--ticked down 0.1 percent in May, but remained 2.5 percent
above its first-quarter average.
Orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft fell 1 percent in May. The
decline was due to a large drop in orders for engines and turbines, which have been running at
very high levels. Excluding engines and turbines and aircraft, orders for nondefense capital
goods rose 2.4 percent last month to level 2.9 percent above the first-quarter average. Most
notably, sizable increases were posted in May for construction machinery and metalworking
machinery, two industries whose shipments were depressed by weak foreign demand over the
past year. Orders for communications equipment remained on a steep uptrend, rising 1
percent in May.
2. This index is calculated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac using price data obtained when houses are sold
repeatedly or refinanced.
ORDERS AND SHIPMENTS OF DURABLE GOODS
(Percent change from comparable previous period,
seasonally adjusted)
1998
1999
1999
Q3
Q4
Q1
Mar.
Apr.
(r)
May
(a)
Orders
Aircraft and parts
Excluding aircraft and parts
Office and computing
Communications equipment
All other
4.3
1.7
4.7
2.7
-3.0
7.7
-4.3
-19.7
-1.6
.6
5.8
-4.4
6.9
33.8
3.1
-. 5
11.6
2.4
.1
-22.2
3.9
4.0
3.9
3.9
-1.3
-15.6
.5
1.7
-2.3
.9
2.8
37.8
-1.0
.5
1.0
-2.1
Shipments
Aircraft and parts
Excluding aircraft and parts
Office and computing
Communications equipment
All other
1.6
2.5
1.4
2.0
2.1
1.0
4.0
17.2
1.7
.6
5.3
1.2
-1.4
-5.2
-. 6
-.1
5.7
-2.5
2.7
.2
3.2
-1.0
5.5
4.4
1.2
1.5
1.1
6.2
2.3
-1.3
1.3
.4
1.4
-.5
1.4
2.3
2.7
.6
3.8
2.9
-2.3
1.4
3.0
.0
3.6
2.9
-2.2
1.5
3.6
4.3
-2.3
-2.8
-4.3
11.2
7.2
6.9
9.4
4.0
.1
41.3
-5.6
-1.3
-35.5
4.1
2.8
17.6
4.9
.9
3.3
3.0
1.0
-. 1
Nondefense capital goods
Supplementary orders series
Durable goods*
Industries with unfilled
orders
Capital goods
Nondefense
Defense
Real adjusted durable goods
r--Revised.
a--Advance.
*--Contains industry detail not shown separately.
RECENT DATA ON ORDERS AND SHIPMENTS
Billions of Dollars
Office and Computing Equipment
- -
Orders
Shipments
_-May
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1996
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1997
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Orders
Shipments
1995
1995
1996
1996
1997
1997
1998
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Orders
Shipments
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1995
1996
1997
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199
199
Billions of Dollars
Other Equipment (excl. aircraft, computers, and communications eq.)
- -
I
Billions of Dollars
Communications Equipment
- -
I
Shipments of nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft rose 1.4 percent last month.
Computer shipments ticked down 0.5 percent following a very large gain in April. Shipments
of communications equipment advanced 1.4 percent in May and stood 5-1/2 percent above
their first-quarter average level. Shipments of nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft and
high-tech equipment posted a strong gain last month, increasing 2.3 percent.
CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES
(Billions of dollars; annual rate except as noted;
based on seasonally adjusted Census book value)
1998
1999
1999
Category
Manufacturing and trade
Less wholesale and retail
motor vehicles
Manufacturing
Less aircraft
Merchant wholesalers
Less motor vehicles
Retail trade
Automotive dealers
Less automotive dealers
Q3
Q4
Q1
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
41.4
26.2
33.4
42.8
63.5
25.3
33.8
6.3
9.6
27.3
9.6
8.8
7.4
1.3
-7.0
-3.9
-12.9
-3.0
-8.0
-9.4
-7.4
3.1
-8.4
-. 6
26.4
24.5
11.3
6.3
5.9
4.7
22.3
21.5
8.0
1.0
6.3
5.7
7.6
5.7
1.8
21.9
14.9
6.9
40.4
22.6
17.8
28.5
14.7
13.8
63.0
46.9
16.0
27.3
15.8
11.5
SELECTED INVENTORY-SALES RATIOS IN MANUFACTURING AND TRADE
(Months' supply, based on seasonally adjusted Census book value)
Cyclical
reference points
Category
1990-91
high
Manufacturing and trade
Less wholesale and retail
motor vehicles
1991-98
low
Range over
preceding
12 months
High
Low
April
1999
1.58
1.37
1.39
1.35
1.36
1.55
1.34
1.37
1.32
1.33
Manufacturing
Primary metals
Steel
Nonelectrical machinery
Electrical machinery
Transportation equipment
Motor vehicles
Aircraft
Nondefense capital goods
Textiles
Paper
Chemicals
Petroleum
Home goods & apparel
1.75
2.08
2.56
2.48
2.08
2.93
.97
5.84
3.09
1.71
1.32
1.44
.94
1.96
1.36
1.46
1.59
1.61
1.21
1.51
.53
4.05
2.04
1.38
1.06
1.25
.80
1.59
1.40
1.74
2.25
1.67
1.39
1.85
.64
4.97
2.21
1.59
1.23
1.45
.99
1.75
1.33
1.57
1.86
1.61
1.21
1.49
.52
4.05
2.04
1.48
1.17
1.37
.85
1.59
1.33
1.66
2.10
1.61
1.20
1.52
.53
4.05
2.00
1.54
1.19
1.38
.82
1.53
Merchant wholesalers
Less motor vehicles
1.36
1.31
1.24
1.21
1.33
1.32
1.29
1.27
1.30
1.29
1.83
.95
1.54
.90
1.66
.99
1.59
.94
1.59
.97
1.61
1.48
1.44
1.38
1.48
1.42
1.42
1.36
1.44
1.36
2.22
2.42
2.53
2.42
1.56
1.98
2.27
2.04
1.66
2.04
2.54
2.09
1.56
1.91
2.35
1.98
1.70
1.93
2.31
1.99
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
Retail trade
Less automotive dealers
Automotive dealers
General merchandise
Apparel
GAF
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Inventory-Sales Ratios, by Major Sector
(Book value)
Manufacturing
Ratio
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1999
Wholesale
Ratio
Total excluding motor vehicles
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
Retail Excluding Autos
Ratio
Apr.
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1995
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1997
I
1999
Selected Financial Market Quotations
(One-day quotes in percent except as noted)
Change to June 24 from
selected dates (percentage points)
1999
1998
Instrument
Oct. 15
Dec. 31
FOMC*
May 18
June 24
Oct. 15
Dec. 31
FOMC*
May 18
Short-term
Federal funds
FOMC intended rate
Realized rate 1
5.00
5.40
4.75
4.58
4.75
4.85
4.75
4.73
-.25
-.67
.00
.15
.00
-.12
Treasury bills 2
3-month
6-month
1-year
4.05
4.12
4.06
4.37
4.39
4.33
4.55
4.62
4.64
4.60
4.85
4.90
.55
.73
.84
.23
.46
.57
.05
.23
.26
Commercial paper
1-month
3-month
5.27
5.13
4.90
4.84
4.80
4.83
5.04
5.03
-.23
-.10
.14
.19
.24
.20
Large negotiable CDs 2
1-month
3-month
6-month
5.35
5.31
5.10
5.01
4.97
4.97
4.86
4.94
5.05
5.11
5.23
5.40
-.24
-.08
.30
.10
.26
.43
.25
.29
.35
Eurodollar deposits 3
1-month
3-month
5.34
5.28
4.94
4.94
4.75
4.88
5.00
5.19
-.34
-.09
.06
.25
.25
.31
Bank prime rate
8.25
7.75
7.75
7.75
-.50
.00
.00
Intermediate- and long-term
U.S. Treasury (constant maturity)
2-year
10-year
30-year
4.13
4.58
5.02
4.54
4.65
5.09
5.31
5.66
5.91
5.75
6.05
6.17
1.62
1.47
1.15
1.21
1.40
1.08
.44
.39
.26
3.69
3.88
3.82
4.01
.32
.13
.19
5.21
5.26
5.34
5.62
.41
.36
.28
7.26
7.23
7.75
8.15
.89
.92
.40
11.29
10.52
10.42
10.72
-.57
.20
.30
6.49
5.36
6.77
5.58
7.10
5.71
7.65
5.94
1.16
.58
.88
.36
.55
.23
U.S. Treasury 10-year indexed note
Municipal revenue (Bond Buyer)
4
Corporate bonds, Moody's seasoned Baa
High-yield corporate 5
Home mortgages (FHLMC survey rate) 6
30-year fixed
1-year adjustable
Record high
Change to June 24
from selected dates (percent)
1999
1998
Record
FOMC*
Stock exchange index
Level
Date
Dec. 31
May 18
June 24
Dow-Jones Industrial
11,107.19
5-13-99
9,181.43
10,853.47
10,534.83
S&P 500 Composite
1,367.56
5-13-99
1,229.23
1,339.49
1,315.78
2,652.05
491.41
12,549.05
4-26-99
4-21-98
5-13-99
2,192.69
421.96
11,317.59
2,561.84
441.35
12,293.78
2,553.99
443.16
12,072.98
Nasdaq (OTC)
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
1. Average for two-week reserve maintenance period ending on or before date shown. Most recent
observation is average for current maintenance period to date.
2. Secondary market.
3. Bid rates for Eurodollar deposits collected around 9:30 am. Eastern time.
4. Most recent Thursday quote.
5. Merrill Lynch Master II high-yield bond index composite.
6. For week ending Friday previous to date shown.
* Data are as of the close on May 17, 1999.
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FOMC*
Dec. 31
May 18
-5.15
14.74
-2.94
-3.79
7.04
-1.77
-3.70
-9.82
-3.79
16.48
5.02
6.67
-.31
.41
-1.80
high
Commercial Bank Credit
(Percent change; seasonally adjusted annual rate)
1998
1. Bank credit: Reported
2.
Adjusted
3.
Securities: Reported
Adjusted 1
4.
5.
U.S. government
6.
Other 2
7.
1
Loans 3
8.
Business
9.
Real estate
Level,
Q4
Ql
Mar
Apr
11.0
16.8
-0.8
-8.8
1.8
Ma
1999
(billions of $)
4,502
2.6
10.3
15.4
1.3
-1.6
1.6
2.9
4,416
13.9
22.8
-5.8
-18.7
0.7
0.2
1,189
11.2
17.6
1.9
9.3
-0.2
1.4
1,103
5.9
8.3
4.1
11.4
0.5
-1.8
798
32.1
51.9
-23.6
-75.6
1.2
4.3
391
10.0
14.7
1.1
-5.2
2.1
3.5
3,313
12.0
16.1
-0.2
4.6
4.3
-6.3
949
6.7
10.2
7.1
-0.2
1.6
6.2
1,347
1998
Type of credit
1999
May
10.
Home equity
0.0
-3.2
-2.4
1.2
11.0
12.1
100
11.
Other
7.3
11.4
7.9
-0.3
0.9
5.7
1,246
12.
Consumer: Reported
-1.8
4.8
2.3
-3.1
1.2
-9.6
496
13.
Adjusted 4
5.8
7.8
2.9
3.0
1.7
-4.9
755
29.6
33.1
-12.3
-38.0
0.7
27.5
522
14.
Other5
Note. Adjusted for breaks caused by reclassifications. Monthly levels are pro rata averages of weekly (Wednesday) levels. Quarterly levels (not
shown) are simple averages of monthly levels. Annual levels (not shown) are levels for the fourth quarter. Growth rates shown are percentage
changes in consecutive levels, annualized but not compounded.
1. Adjusted to remove effects of mark-to-market accounting rules (FIN 39 and FASB 115).
2. Includes securities of corporations, state and local governments, and foreign governments and any trading account assets that are not U.S. government securities.
3. Excludes interbank loans.
4. Includes an estimate of outstanding loans securitized by commercial banks.
5. Includes security loans, loans to farmers, state and local governments, and all others not elsewhere classified. Also includes
lease financing receivables.
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Cite this document
APA
Federal Reserve (1999, June 29). Greenbook/Tealbook. Greenbooks, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19990630_part2
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_greenbook_19990630_part2,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Greenbook/Tealbook},
year = {1999},
month = {Jun},
howpublished = {Greenbooks, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_19990630_part2},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}