Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Commercial Paper

Maturity Distribution of Commercial Paper Outstanding Derived from data supplied by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Data as of February 3, 2012Posted February 6, 2012

This page will be updated at the beginning of each week using the week-ending outstanding data for the previous two weeks.

Weekly totals of maturing commercial paper

Bar Chart of Weekly Totals of Maturing Commercial Paper: Billions of Dollars, Date vs. Amount

Weekly totals for outstanding commercial paper as of January 27, 2012

Maturing Period Total 1 Asset-backed Not Asset-backed
Tier-1 Tier-2
Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3
Jan. 30 - Feb. 3 215.5 21.0 76.4 22.5 96.1 18.7 21.5 33.7
Feb. 6 - Feb. 10 127.4 12.4 52.1 15.3 49.0 9.6 11.2 17.6
Feb. 13 - Feb. 17 114.2 11.1 41.8 12.3 52.5 10.2 8.4 13.2
Feb. 20 - Feb. 24 76.5 7.5 32.9 9.7 30.0 5.9 5.7 8.9
Feb. 27 - Mar. 2 68.8 6.7 25.3 7.4 29.8 5.8 4.0 6.3
Mar. 5 - Mar. 9 49.2 4.8 15.3 4.5 23.7 4.6 2.7 4.2

Weekly totals for outstanding commercial paper as of February 03, 2012

Maturing Period Total 1 Asset-backed Not Asset-backed
Tier-1 Tier-2
Amount 2 Percent 4 Amount 2 Percent 4 Amount 2 Percent 4 Amount 2 Percent 4
Feb. 6 - Feb. 10 211.0 20.6 82.4 24.3 86.8 17.0 19.5 31.3
Feb. 13 - Feb. 17 133.8 13.0 46.3 13.7 58.2 11.4 11.3 18.0
Feb. 20 - Feb. 24 83.9 8.2 34.4 10.2 32.6 6.4 7.0 11.1
Feb. 27 - Mar. 2 94.6 9.2 37.9 11.2 37.0 7.2 6.3 10.1
Mar. 5 - Mar. 9 63.5 6.2 21.3 6.3 28.0 5.5 5.3 8.5
Mar. 12 - Mar. 16 44.4 4.3 15.3 4.5 21.9 4.3 1.9 3.1

Average maturity for outstanding commercial paper

Days, weighted by outstanding amount
Period Total 1 Asset-
backed		 Not asset-backed
Tier-1 Tier-2
Jan. 27 42.7 34.0 51.2 25.4
Feb. 3 44.7 35.6 54.2 26.6

Footnotes

1. Total is not the sum of asset-backed, not asset-backed tier-1, and not asset-backed tier-2 categories.
2. Billions of dollars.
3. Percent of total outstanding for the category as of January 27, 2012.
4. Percent of total outstanding for the category as of February 03, 2012.

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Last update: February 6, 2012