greenbooks · January 29, 2008
Greenbook/Tealbook
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Confidential (FR) Class III FOMC
January 25, 2008
CURRENT ECONOMIC
AND FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
Supplemental Notes
Prepared for the Federal Open Market Committee
by the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Contents
The Domestic Nonfinancial Economy ......................................................1
Sales and Prices of Existing Homes.............................................................1
Charts
Indicators of Single-Family Housing...........................................................2
The Domestic Financial Economy ...........................................................1
Tables
Commercial Bank Credit .............................................................................3
Selected Financial Market Quotations .........................................................4
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Supplemental Notes
The Domestic Nonfinancial Economy
Sales and Prices of Existing Homes
Sales of existing single-family homes declined 2 percent in December to an annual rate of
4.31 million units; data on pending home sales through November and other indicators of
housing demand had instead implied a small increase. Still, existing home sales continue
to paint a noticeably less downbeat picture of housing demand than do the data on sales
of new single-family homes. Sales of condos and co-ops also moved down in December,
and the declines in total existing home sales were spread across all four Census regions.
The average price of existing single-family homes sold fell 5 percent in the twelve
months ending in December, similar to the readings for this series seen in recent months.
The Domestic Financial Economy
-1-
2
Indicators of Single-Family Housing
Existing Single-Family Home Sales
New Single-Family Home Sales
Millions of units
_ (annual rate)
70
Pending home sales index (right scale)
- - Existing home sales (left scale)
6.5
Index
140
130
6.0
--
Millions of units
(annual rate) 0.4
NAHB sales (right scale)
Census sales (left scale)
5
0.40
1.3
120
5.5
0.35
1.1
110
5.0
0.30
0.9
4.5
100
4.0
90
3.5
0.25
0.7
0.20
Source. For NAHB new home sales, NAHB's survey
of large homebuilders; for new home sales agreements,
Census Bureau.
Source. National Association of Realtors.
Content partially redacted.
_
15
Millions of units
(annual rate)
New Home Sales
Months' Supply
Mortgage Rates
Months
Nov.
Percent
10
9
8
30-year jumbo FRM
30-year conforming FRM
1-year conforming ARM
7
9
8
7
6
5
6
4
5
3
2
4
0
1999
Note.
. Months'
Sl.Jpply is calculated using the 3-month moving average of sales.
Source.
for months' supply, Census Bureau.
Note. The Jan. readings are for data through Jan. 23, 2008.
Source. Conforming rates are from Freddie Mac. The
jumbo rate is the sum of the 30-year conforming FRM rate
and the jumbo conforming spread from bankrate.com.
Prices of Existing Homes
Percent change from year earlier
Repeat transactions, purchase-only index
Average price of homes sold
Case-Shiller price index
Prices of New Homes
35
30
Percent change from year earlier
Constant quality index
Average price of homes sold
25
20
25
15
20
15
10
10
5
5
0
0
-5
-5
-10
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-15
Note. The Case-S hiller price index is the 10-city index.
Source. For repeat transactions, OFHEO; for average
price, National Association of Realtors; for Case-Shiller,
Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Note. Average price values have been adjusted by
Board staff to take into account new sampling procedures
adopted in 2005.
Source. Census Bureau.
3
Commercial Bank Credit
(Percent change, annual rate, except as noted; seasonally adjusted)
Type of credit
Total
Level1
Jan. 2008e
2006
H1
2007
Q3
2007
Q4
2007
Dec.
2007
Jan.
2008e
9.8
9.3
12.4
9.1
8.6
4.7
8,772
Loans2
Total
To businesses
Commercial and industrial
Commercial real estate
10.9
10.2
12.5
11.6
12.4
9.0
6,695
16.5
13.7
10.1
13.8
24.2
3.8
29.9
7.7
21.3
7.4
14.6
2.9
1,432
1,580
To households
Residential real estate
Revolving home equity
Other
Consumer
Originated3
Other4
7.0
1.4
9.1
5.9
6.9
11.8
7.0
1.9
8.7
6.5
5.2
14.3
9.6
6.5
10.6
10.5
10.3
19.1
1.0
12.2
-2.7
7.2
7.2
17.5
3.0
13.1
-.5
17.8
13.2
21.4
4.0
8.5
2.5
-.1
5.3
28.2
1,881
485
1,396
802
1,205
1,000
6.5
2.6
13.2
6.5
-4.9
24.1
12.2
6.8
19.4
1.6
-23.9
34.6
-3.2
-11.7
6.4
-9.3
-19.9
2.3
2,077
1,078
999
Securities
Total
Treasury and agency
Other5
Note. Yearly annual rates are Q4 to Q4; quarterly and monthly annual rates use corresponding average levels. Data
have been adjusted to remove the effects of mark-to-market accounting rules (FIN 39 and FAS 115), the consolidation of
certain variable interest entities (FIN 46), the adoption of fair value accounting (FAS 159), and the effects of sizable
thrift-to-bank and bank-to-thrift structure activity in October 2006, March 2007, and October 2007. Data also account for
breaks caused by reclassifications.
1. Billions of dollars. Pro rata averages of weekly (Wednesday) levels.
2. Excludes interbank loans.
3. Includes an estimate of outstanding loans securitized by commercial banks.
4. Includes security loans and loans to farmers, state and local governments, and all others not elsewhere classified.
Also includes lease financing receivables.
5. Includes private mortgage-backed securities, securities of corporations, state and local governments, foreign
governments, and any trading account assets that are not Treasury or agency securities, including revaluation gains
on derivative contracts.
e Estimated.
4
III-T-1
Selected Financial Market Quotations
(One-day quotes in percent except as noted)
2006
2007
2008
Instrument
Change to Jan. 24 from
selected dates (percentage points)
June 29
Sept. 17
Dec. 10
Jan. 24
2006
June 29
2007
Sept. 17
2007
Dec. 10
5.25
5.25
4.50
3.50
-1.75
-1.75
-1.00
4.88
5.06
4.05
4.15
2.98
3.20
2.32
2.41
-2.56
-2.65
-1.73
-1.74
-.66
-.79
Commercial paper (A1/P1 rates)2
1-month
3-month
5.27
5.37
5.23
5.25
4.36
4.94
3.11
3.06
-2.16
-2.31
-2.12
-2.19
-1.25
-1.88
Large negotiable CDs1
3-month
6-month
5.47
5.59
5.52
5.36
5.18
4.98
3.20
3.08
-2.27
-2.51
-2.32
-2.28
-1.98
-1.90
Eurodollar deposits3
1-month
3-month
5.33
5.49
5.55
5.60
5.40
5.25
3.30
3.25
-2.03
-2.24
-2.25
-2.35
-2.10
-2.00
Bank prime rate
8.25
8.25
7.50
6.50
-1.75
-1.75
-1.00
Intermediate- and long-term
U.S. Treasury4
2-year
5-year
10-year
5.26
5.15
5.28
4.12
4.18
4.58
3.17
3.55
4.33
2.23
2.86
3.87
-3.03
-2.29
-1.41
-1.89
-1.32
-.71
-.94
-.69
-.46
U.S. Treasury indexed notes5
5-year
10-year
2.51
2.61
2.04
2.15
1.42
1.94
.87
1.45
-1.64
-1.16
-1.17
-.70
-.55
-.49
Municipal general obligations (Bond Buyer)6
4.71
4.46
4.38
4.29
-.42
-.17
-.09
Private instruments
10-year swap
10-year FNMA7
10-year AA8
10-year BBB8
10-year high yield8
5.81
5.59
6.20
6.74
8.74
5.17
5.01
6.05
6.46
8.95
4.89
4.83
6.08
6.55
9.23
4.25
4.27
5.68
6.31
9.98
-1.56
-1.32
-.52
-.43
1.24
-.92
-.74
-.37
-.15
1.03
-.64
-.56
-.40
-.24
.75
Home mortgages (FHLMC survey rate)
30-year fixed
1-year adjustable
6.78
5.82
6.34
5.65
6.11
5.50
5.48
4.99
-1.30
-.83
-.86
-.66
-.63
-.51
Short-term
FOMC intended federal funds rate
Treasury bills1
3-month
6-month
Record high
2007
2008
Stock exchange index
Dow Jones Industrial
S&P 500 Composite
Nasdaq
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
Change to Jan. 24
from selected dates (percent)
Level
Date
Sept. 17
Dec. 10
Jan. 24
Record
high
2007
Sept. 17
2007
Dec. 10
14,165
1,565
5,049
856
15,807
10-9-07
10-9-07
3-10-00
7-13-07
10-9-07
13,403
1,477
2,582
776
14,839
13,727
1,516
2,719
791
15,311
12,379
1,352
2,361
693
13,608
-12.61
-13.61
-53.24
-19.05
-13.91
-7.65
-8.44
-8.55
-1.71
-8.30
-9.82
-1.81
-13.17
-12.45
-11.12
1. Secondary market.
2. Financial commercial paper.
3. Bid rates for Eurodollar deposits collected around 9:30 a.m. eastern time.
4. Derived from a smoothed Treasury yield curve estimated using off-the-run securities.
5. Derived from a smoothed Treasury yield curve estimated using all outstanding securities and adjusted for the carry effect.
6. Most recent Thursday quote.
7. Constant-maturity yields estimated from Fannie Mae domestic noncallable coupon securities.
8. Derived from smoothed corporate yield curves estimated using Merrill Lynch bond data.
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NOTES:
June 29, 2006, is the day the most recent policy tightening ended.
September 17, 2007, is the day before the most recent policy easing began.
December 10, 2007, is the day before the most recent FOMC announcement.
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APA
Federal Reserve (2008, January 29). Greenbook/Tealbook. Greenbooks, Federal Reserve. https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_20080130_part3
BibTeX
@misc{wtfs_greenbook_20080130_part3,
author = {Federal Reserve},
title = {Greenbook/Tealbook},
year = {2008},
month = {Jan},
howpublished = {Greenbooks, Federal Reserve},
url = {https://whenthefedspeaks.com/doc/greenbook_20080130_part3},
note = {Retrieved via When the Fed Speaks corpus}
}