Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Commercial Paper

Year-end Commercial Paper Outstanding Derived from data supplied by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Data as of December 26, 2012Posted December 27, 2012

This page will be updated weekly from October through December. The weekly pattern of commercial paper maturing after December 31 chart and table will be replaced each week. A new row will be added to the commercial paper maturing after December 31 table each week.

Weekly pattern of commercial paper maturing after December 31

Bar Chart of Weekly Pattern of Maturities of Outstanding Commercial Paper: Billions of Dollars, Date vs. Amount

Billions of dollars
Year Weeks after December 31
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
2010* 96.5 103.8 73.9 85.9 71.9 53.9 35.0 40.4 42.8 41.8 31.5 28.4 14.1 21.9
2011** 22.1 15.4 11.3 6.9 10.1 7.2 7.2 5.0 5.1 4.9 7.0 8.0 6.2 5.5
2012*** 22.9 21.4 13.7 18.8 19.9 11.0 5.6 11.3 12.5 11.6 8.9 7.7 6.3 6.9
* Outstanding as of October 06, 2010.
** Outstanding as of October 05, 2011.
*** Outstanding as of October 03, 2012.

Commercial paper maturing after December 31

Year Total Tier-1 Tier-2 Asset-backed 1
Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3 Amount 2 Percent 3
2012-Oct. 3 187.6 19.3 141.2 21.6 5.4 6.1 45.1 14.8
Oct. 10 223.1 23.2 164.1 25.6 5.7 6.5 58.4 19.2
Oct. 17 261.5 27.1 192.8 30.0 6.8 7.4 69.4 23.2
Oct. 24 298.8 30.8 217.2 33.5 7.9 8.6 81.8 27.5
Oct. 31 322.2 34.0 234.3 37.1 9.0 10.1 89.7 30.3
Nov. 7 380.5 39.8 271.3 42.7 12.4 13.9 112.3 38.0
Nov. 14 420.5 44.7 298.5 47.6 15.1 17.5 127.5 43.6
Nov. 21 483.0 50.4 338.8 52.7 20.0 22.3 146.4 49.5
Nov. 28 528.5 55.1 367.1 56.9 24.9 28.7 159.9 53.9
Dec. 5 609.3 63.8 416.4 65.0 32.2 38.6 186.0 62.6
Dec. 12 697.4 73.4 472.4 74.0 43.7 52.7 215.8 72.7
Dec. 19 792.3 82.8 530.9 82.4 59.2 72.3 253.1 84.4
Dec. 26 855.1 89.8 575.7 89.0 65.9 86.1 270.4 90.3

Footnotes

1. Asset-backed is also included in the Total, Tier-1, and Tier-2 categories.
2. Billions of dollars.
3. Percent of total current outstanding for the category.

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Last update: December 27, 2012