Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Starting in 2010:Q4; stocks outstanding are calculated as 75% of QFR table 70.1, sum of lines Total U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities due in 1 year or less and U.S. treasury and federal agency securities, due in more than 1 year, multiplied by a benchmark ratio of SOI to QFR. The benchmark ratio is calculated: SOI Corporation Income Tax Returns, Returns of Active Corporations, Table 6 - Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Tax, and Other Selected Items, by Major Industry, line Investments in Government obligations, for all industries except manufacturing, finance and insurance, management of companies, and unpublished detail on equity REITs, plus from the QFR Table 70.1 - Balance Sheet for Corporations in the NAICS Manufacturing Sector, Total Assets $25 Million and Over, sum of lines Total U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities due in 1 year or less and U.S. treasury and federal agency securities, due in more than 1 year; divided by QFR table 70.1, sum of lines Total U.S. Treasury and federal agency securities due in 1 year or less and U.S. treasury and federal agency securities, due in more than 1 year. For quarters since the most recent SOI year, benchmark is fixed at the the stocks outstanding of the most recent SOI year. Capital gains are estimated based on the Merrill Lynch AAA Treasury par weighted price index. Transactions are the change in stocks outstanding less capital gains; data for the most recent ten years show no significant seasonality.