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 May 18, 2012Posted May 21, 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 May 11, 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
May 14 - May 18 196.6 19.1 65.5 19.8 81.0 16.8 27.1 32.2
May 21 - May 25 108.0 10.5 41.3 12.5 35.0 7.2 14.5 17.3
May 28 - June 1 79.1 7.7 31.2 9.5 29.5 6.1 8.1 9.7
June 4 - June 8 99.6 9.6 40.2 12.2 37.1 7.7 9.1 10.8
June 11 - June 15 69.6 6.7 25.7 7.8 28.1 5.8 5.6 6.7
June 18 - June 22 40.1 3.9 14.0 4.2 17.0 3.5 3.7 4.4

Weekly totals for outstanding commercial paper as of May 18, 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
May 21 - May 25 187.6 18.3 63.6 19.5 72.3 15.0 27.2 33.0
May 28 - June 1 92.2 9.0 32.3 9.9 34.9 7.2 10.7 12.9
June 4 - June 8 107.0 10.4 40.7 12.5 40.4 8.4 11.3 13.7
June 11 - June 15 93.3 9.1 37.4 11.5 35.1 7.3 8.0 9.7
June 18 - June 22 66.1 6.4 27.6 8.5 23.4 4.8 7.2 8.8
June 25 - June 29 49.5 4.8 11.3 3.5 26.5 5.5 6.4 7.7

Average maturity for outstanding commercial paper

Days, weighted by outstanding amount
Period Total 1 Asset-
backed		 Not asset-backed
Tier-1 Tier-2
May 11 48.1 37.8 59.0 24.9
May 18 47.5 37.3 58.1 24.7

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 May 11, 2012.
4. Percent of total outstanding for the category as of May 18, 2012.

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Last update: May 21, 2012