Federal Reserve Bulletin

Profits and Balance Sheet Developments at U.S. Commercial Banks in 2005

Figure 27. Provisions for loan and lease losses as a proportion of total revenue, 1990-2005. Data plotted as a curve. The series begins in 1990 at about 19 percent, falls to reach about 5 percent in 1994, rises to about 7 percent in 1999, rises further to about 12 percent by 2001, then declines to about 5 percent in 2004 and holds there in 2005.

Note: The data are annual.  Return to article