Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2006
Syndicated Loans, Figure A. Total syndicated loan commitments, 1989-2006. Data plotted as a curve. The series for total syndicated loan commitments starts in 1989 at $690 billion, rises to a level of around $2 trillion in 2001, declines to a level of about $1.5 trillion in 2004, and then rises to a level of about $1.9 trillion in 2006.
NOTE: The data are annual.
SOURCE: Federal Reserve Board, Statistical Release, " Shared National Credit Program ".