Consumer Credit Outstanding

Market Sensitivity: Low.

What Is It: Tracks monthly changes in consumer installment debt.

News Release on Internet: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19

Home Web Address: www.federalreserve.gov

Release Time: 3:00 P.M. (ET); approximately five to six weeks after the month being reported.

Frequency: Monthly.

Source: Federal Reserve Board.

Revisions: Can be large from month to month.

Why Is It Important

The consumer installment debt release usually evokes little more than a yawn from the investment community. For one, it comes out quite late, nearly two months after the fact. By then, numerous other reports on consumer outlays for the same month have already come out. Moreover, the release itself arrives mid-afternoon, ...

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