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Viewpoints
Commentaries are the opinions of the author and do not reflect the views of Haver Analytics.
by Tom Moeller September 10, 2018
Consumer credit outstanding increased $16.65 billion (4.6% y/y) during July after rising $8.47 billion in June, revised from $10.20 billion. A $14.0 billion gain had been expected in the Action Economics Forecast Survey. During the past ten years, there has been a 51% correlation between the y/y gain in consumer credit and y/y growth in personal consumption expenditures.
Nonrevolving credit usage increased $15.38 billion (4.7% y/y) during July after a $9.64 billion June rise. Federal government borrowing (42% of the total) rose 8.4% y/y. Borrowing from depository institutions (25% of the total) improved 4.4% y/y and finance company balances (18% of the total) fell 1.8% y/y. Credit union loans (13% of the total) strengthened 9.0% y/y.
Revolving consumer credit balances recovered $1.25 billion in July (4.4% y/y) following a $1.17 billion June drop. Balances at depository institutions (88% of the total) increased 7.0% y/y. Borrowing from credit unions (6% of the total) strengthened 9.5% y/y. Finance company balances (2% of the total) fell 9.0% y/y, while nonfinancial business borrowing (2% of the total) fell 4.0% y/y.
These Federal Reserve Board figures are break-adjusted and calculated by Haver Analytics. There is a break in the credit outstanding data from November 2010 to December 2010 due to the Fed's benchmarking process. Benchmark estimates are based on the Census of Finance Companies (CFC) and the Survey of Finance Companies (SFC) conducted in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
The consumer credit data are available in Haver's USECON database. The Action Economics figures are contained in the AS1REPNA database.
Whither Labor Force Participation? from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York can be found here.
Consumer Credit Outstanding (M/M Chg, SA) | Jul | Jun | May | Jul Y/Y | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | $16.65 bil. | $8.47 bil. | $21.84 bil. | 4.6% | 5.1% | 6.7% | 7.1% |
Nonrevolving | 15.38 | 9.64 | 13.43 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 6.7 | 7.7 |
Revolving | 1.25 | -1.17 | 8.42 | 4.4 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 5.4 |