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Federal Reserve Alert! Regulatory Reform communications with the public categories: Systemic Designations, Enhanced Prudential Standards, and Banking Supervision and Regulation, Derivatives Markets and Products, Interchange Fees, Payments, Settlement..

Federal Reserve Alert! Regulatory Reform communications with the public categories: Systemic Designations, Enhanced Prudential Standards, and Banking Supervision and Regulation, Derivatives Markets and Products, Interchange Fees, Payments, Settlement and Clearing Activities and Utilities, and more. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/communications-with-public.htm Communications With The Public * The Federal Reserve

Quarterly Trends for Consolidated U.S. Banking Organizations Fourth Quarter 2022. Asset growth turned negative, dropping from 1.28% in 2022:Q3 to -0.25% in 2022:Q4

Quarterly Trends for Consolidated U.S. Banking Organizations Fourth Quarter 2022 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Research and Statistics Group Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/banking_research/QuarterlyTrends2022Q4.pdf Highlights: * Consolidated financial statistics for the U.S. commercial banking industry, including both bank holding companies (BHCs)

In February, year-over-year changes in home prices gained less than 5% for the first time since May 2020. Median existing-home price for all housing types in February was $363,000, a 0.2% drop from February 2022.

Ending a 131 consecutive months streak of year-over-year increases (longest on record.) Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/home-price-index What did the housing data say in February? From the National Association of Realtors: * The median existing-home sales price decreased 0.2% from the previous year to $363,000. * Existing-home sales

Inflation Alert! The purchasing power of the dollar continues to VANISH! In March, the purchasing power of $100 in January 2000 was $55.90.

Remember, CPI tracks the loss of the purchasing power of your dollars, and thereby the purchasing power of your hard earned labor. Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R#0 CPI tracks the loss of the purchasing power of your dollars, and thereby the purchasing power of your hard earned

"Idiosyncratic Factors help explain fails": Settlement fails in corporate securities increased sharply in 2022, reaching levels not seen since the 2007-09 financial crisis.

As a fraction of trading volume, fails that involve primary dealers reached an all-time high in the week of March 23, 2022. Good morning, hoping to call out a bit of data that I buried the lead on in a larger post overnight. About the image: Authors’ calculations, based on

There is always money in the Fed: Repurchase agreements Foreign Official 3/16 $0. Repurchase agreements Foreign Official 3/23 $60 Billion. I wonder what Foreign Official needed $60 billion so quickly?...

Sources: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230316/ https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20230323/ I am willing to bet this is why the Central Bank Liquidity swaps did not jump bigly this week--they went here instead? Also, with Primary Credit dropping by $40 billion and the Bank Term Funding

Consumer Credit Alert! In January, consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.7 percent. Revolving credit increased at an annual rate of 11.1 percent, while nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 1.2 percent

Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/g19.pdf In January, consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.7 percent. Revolving credit increased at an annual rate of 11.1 percent, while nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 1.2 percent. https://www.