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by Tom Moeller December 7, 2018
Consumer credit outstanding increased $25.38 billion during October following an $11.57 billion September rise, revised from $10.93 billion. A $17.00 billion gain had been expected in the Action Economics Forecast Survey. During the past ten years, there has been a 52% correlation between the y/y gain in consumer credit and y/y growth in personal consumption expenditures.
Nonrevolving credit usage increased $16.18 billion (5.4% y/y) during October. Gains here have been trending upward this year. Federal government borrowing (42% of the total) rose a weaker 8.1% y/y. Borrowing from depository institutions (25% of the total) rose a slightly improved 4.0% y/y but finance company balances (18% of the total) eased 0.7% y/y. Credit union loans (13% of the total) rose a greatly strengthened 11.8% y/y.
Revolving consumer credit balances jumped $9.21 billion in October (2.8% y/y). Balances at depository institutions (88% of the total) rose a lessened 4.7% y/y. Borrowing from credit unions (6% of the total) rose 8.3% y/y. Finance company balances (2% of the total) fell 10.4% y/y, while nonfinancial business borrowing (2% of the total) weakened 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.
Assessing Financial Stability over the Cycle from Fed Governor Lael Brainard can be found here.
| Consumer Credit Outstanding (M/M Chg, SA) | Oct | Sep | Aug | Oct y/y | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | $25.38 bil. | $11.57 bil. | $23.21 bil. | 4.7% | 5.0% | 6.7% | 3.0% |
| Nonrevolving | 16.18 | 11.88 | 18.59 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 6.7 | 3.3 |
| Revolving | 9.21 | -0.31 | 4.62 | 2.8 | 5.6 | 6.8 | 2.1 |
