NOTE
Effective with today's release, commercial paper rates published on the H.15
are those collected by the Depository Trust Company. For further details,
see the announcement of this change attached to the H.15 release dated May
12, 1997. This announcement is also available on the Federal Reserve Board's
Web site (http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/releases/H15/).
FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE
H.15 (519) For immediate release
September 8, 1997
SELECTED INTEREST RATES
Yields in percent per annum
*
1997 1997 1997 1997 1997 Week Ending 1997
Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Sep Aug Aug
Instruments 1 2 3 4 5 5 29
Federal funds (effective) 1 2 3 5.52 6.23 5.54 5.48 5.39 5.64 5.56 5.54
Commercial paper 3 4 5 6
Nonfinancial
1-month 5.49 5.49 5.49 5.47r 5.49 5.55** 5.55**
2-month 5.49 5.47 5.48 5.49 5.48 5.55** 5.55**
3-month 5.50 5.48 5.48 5.50 5.49 5.55** 5.56**
Financial
1-month 5.52 5.51 5.50 5.50 5.51 5.49** 5.49**
2-month 5.51 5.52 5.50 5.50 5.51 5.51** 5.50**
3-month 5.52 5.51 5.51 5.50r 5.51 5.49** 5.49**
Bankers acceptances (top rated) 3 4 7
3-month 5.54 5.52 5.54 5.53 5.53 5.53 5.53
6-month 5.60 5.53 5.58 5.55 5.57 5.55 5.56
CDs (secondary market) 3 8
1-month 5.55 5.55 5.55 5.55 5.55 5.55 5.54
3-month 5.61 5.60 5.60 5.60 5.60 5.60 5.60
6-month 5.73 5.72 5.72 5.71 5.72 5.72 5.71
Eurodollar deposits (London) 3 9
1-month 5.63 5.56 5.56 5.56 5.56 5.58 5.50 5.50
3-month 5.69 5.56 5.56 5.56 5.56 5.59 5.56 5.58
6-month 5.81 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.75 5.76 5.69 5.70
Bank prime loan 2 3 10 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50 8.50
Discount window borrowing 2 11 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00
U.S. government securities
Treasury bills
Auction average 3 4 12
3-month 5.07 5.07 5.12 5.13
6-month 5.19 5.19 5.14 5.17
1-year 5.28
Secondary market 3 4
3-month 5.07 5.01 5.01 5.03 5.03 5.13 5.14
6-month 5.16 5.17 5.17 5.17 5.17 5.18 5.19
1-year 5.27 5.27 5.29 5.28 5.28 5.29 5.27
Treasury constant maturities 13
3-month 5.21 5.14 5.14 5.17 5.17 5.26 5.28
6-month 5.39 5.38 5.38 5.38 5.38 5.39 5.40
1-year 5.57 5.57 5.60 5.58 5.58 5.59 5.56
2-year 5.94 5.96 5.98 5.98 5.97 5.98 5.94
3-year 6.06 6.07 6.09 6.09 6.08 6.11 6.06
5-year 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.24 6.22 6.22 6.16
7-year 6.30 6.33 6.33 6.36 6.33 6.35 6.29
10-year 6.31 6.33 6.33 6.37 6.34 6.36 6.30
20-year 6.65 6.67 6.67 6.72 6.68 6.71 6.65
30-year 6.58 6.60 6.61 6.65 6.61 6.63 6.58
Composite
Over 10 years (long-term) 14 6.63 6.65 6.66 6.71 6.66 6.69 6.64
Corporate bonds
Moody's seasoned
Aaa 7.23 7.24 7.24 7.30 7.25 7.28 7.22
Baa 7.77 7.78 7.78 7.81 7.79 7.82 7.82
A-utility 15 7.72 7.72 7.68 7.67
State & local bonds 16 5.42 5.42 5.45 5.41
Conventional mortgages 17 7.53 7.53 7.58 7.48
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See overleaf for footnotes
* Markets closed
** Commercial paper rates prior to Sept. 2, 1997 are based on averages of dealer offering rates.
r -- Revised
FOOTNOTES
1. The daily effective federal funds rate is a weighted average of rates on trades through N.Y.
brokers.
2. Weekly figures are averages of 7 calendar days ending on Wednesday of the current week;
monthly figures include each calendar day in the month.
3. Annualized using a 360-day year or bank interest.
4. On a discount basis.
5. Interest rates interpolated from data on certain commercial paper trades settled by The Depository
Trust Company. The trades represent sales of commercial paper by dealers or direct issuers to
investors (that is, the offer side). See Board's Commercial Paper Web pages
(http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/releases/cp) for more information.
6. The 1-, 2-, and 3-month rates are equivalent to the 30-, 60-, and 90-day dates reported on the
Board's Commercial Paper Web page.
7. Representative closing yields for acceptances of the highest rated money center banks.
8. An average of dealer offering rates on nationally traded certificates of deposit.
9. Bid rates for Eurodollar deposits at approximately 11 a.m. London time.
10. One of several base rates used by banks to price short-term business loans.
11. Rate for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
12. Auction date for daily data; weekly and monthly averages computed on an issue-date basis.
13. Yields on actively traded issues adjusted to constant maturities. Source: U.S. Treasury.
14. Unweighted average of rates on all outstanding bonds neither due nor callable in less than 10 years.
15. Estimate of the yield on a recently offered, A-rated utility bond with a maturity of 30 years
and call protection of 5 years; Friday quotations.
16. Bond Buyer Index, general obligation, 20 years to maturity, mixed quality; Thursday quotations.
17. Contract interest rates on commitments for fixed-rate first mortgages. Source: FHLMC.
Note: Weekly and monthly figures are averages of business days unless otherwise noted.
Current and historical H.15 data are available on the Federal Reserve Board's web site
(http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/). Current data are also available on the Department of Commerce
Bulletin Board. For information, call 202-482-1986.
DESCRIPTION OF THE TREASURY CONSTANT MATURITY SERIES
Yields on Treasury securities at "constant maturity" are interpolated by the U.S. Treasury from the
daily yield curve. This curve, which relates the yield on a security to its time to maturity, is based
on the closing market bid yields on actively traded Treasury securities in the over-the-counter market.
These market yields are calculated from composites of quotations obtained by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York. The constant maturity yield values are read from the yield curve at fixed maturities,
currently 3 and 6 months and 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, and 30 years. This method provides a yield for a
10-year maturity, for example, even if no outstanding security has exactly 10 years remaining to
maturity. In estimating the 20-year constant maturity, the Treasury incorporates the prevailing
market yield on an outstanding Treasury bond with approximately 20 years remaining to maturity.