NY Fed Release H.4.1 Over an Hour Late

The FRBNY’s weekly statistical release H.4.1 [1] is now more than an hour overdue. When Current release tics over to "October 9, 2008," Doom will be dipping down to see how the numbers changed from the last version.

The following is last week’s numbers in "Screen Reader" format. The bolded were the holdings of treasuries and agencies last week. We’ll be looking for where these moved this week.

(sorry about the format, I’m out of time myself — please compare the numbers in the treasury and agency lines when the Oct 9 version comes up).

1A. Memorandum Items, October 1, 2008
Millions of dollars

Memorandum item Averages of daily figures Wednesday
Oct 1, 2008
Week ended
Oct 1, 2008		 Change from week ended
Sep 24, 2008 Oct 3, 2007
                                                              
Marketable securities held in custody for foreign             
      official and international accounts (1)             2,465,651     +  43,756     + 467,242     2,482,377 
  U.S. Treasury                                           1,495,189     +  37,096     + 281,057     1,513,135 
  Federal agency                                            970,462>     +   6,660     + 186,185       969,241 
Securities lent to dealers                                  255,801     +  50,853     + 252,072       259,672 
  Overnight facility (2)                                     22,236     +   2,924     +  18,507        24,128 
  Term facility (3)                                         233,565     +  47,929     + 233,565       235,544 

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Notes and References

[1]: "H.4.1 Factors Affecting Reserve Balances", Federal Reserve Statistical Release (weekly), Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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3 Comments for this entry

  1. John M. says:
    October 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM

    YeeeHawww!!

    It’s little wonder the NY Fed hesitated releasing this puppy on an unsuspecting planet. Last week foreign central banks took their net buys of agencies going back to late May and plumped the whole wad straight into treasuries. Looks like that explicit guarantee on Fannie’s and Freddie’s senior debt is going to need to get a bit expliciter :(

    “Overseas cenbanks’ Treasuries holdings rise-Fed”, Reuters, October 9, 2008.

    Foreign central banks’ holdings of U.S. Treasuries at the Fed increased by $24.443 billion in the week ended Oct 8 to $1.538 trillion.

    Their holdings of agency securities fell.

    Such holdings of these securities issued or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac dropped by $24.439 billion to $944.802 billion in the week ended Oct 8.

  2. Hutch says:
    October 9, 2008 at 10:46 PM

    Off Topic? The Nikkei is down 8.6% right now having bounced from an 11% drop this morning. An REIT imploded yesterday and an unlisted company ‘Yamato Life Insurance’ today. European talking heads are deriding panicking investors for taking the world closer to financial Armagedon. Which reminded me of the Wizards of Wall Street line from this.
    http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Mutual_Funds_(A_to_Z)/Mutual_Funds_F/threadview?m=tm&bn=29756&tid=3&mid=3&tof=6&frt=2

  3. twist says:
    October 9, 2008 at 11:02 PM

    Hutch-

    I don’t know what’s with Igor this evening- yours is the second comment I’ve had to take away from him.

    I’ve been here watching CNBC and working on charts for John. You’ve definitely hit this evening’s headlines.

    I usually don’t watch horror shows before bedtime- they tend to give me nightmares. I’m thinking that I should probably change the channel.

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