US Fed Total Discount Window Borrowings Wed $109.18 Billion
The Fed's asset holdings in the week ended Oct. 28 edged lower to $2.165 trillion from $2.204 trillion last week, the Fed said in a weekly report released Thursday.
Total discount window borrowing rose to $109.18 billion on Wednesday from $107.45 billion a week earlier.
Borrowing by commercial banks through the Fed's discount window fell to $22.53 billion Wednesday from $23.56 billion a week earlier.
Borrowing by primary dealers through a credit facility created after the 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns on Wednesday remained at zero for the 26th-straight week.
The Fed's portfolio of Treasury securities in the latest week rose to $774.56 billion from $773.48 billion in the previous week.
Portfolio holdings in connection with the Fed's commercial-paper funding facility plunged in the week to $19.02 billion on Wednesday from the previous week's $39.43 billion.
Meanwhile, U.S. government securities held in custody on behalf of foreign official accounts rose to $2.898 trillion, from last week's $2.893 trillion.
Treasurys held in custody on behalf of foreign official accounts as of Wednesday edged higher to $2.137 trillion from $2.129 trillion the week before. Holdings of agency securities edged down to $760.51 billion from the prior week's $764.30 billion.
-By Luca Di Leo, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-6682; luca.dileo@dowjones.com
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Publié le 29 octobre 2009 Copyright © 2009 Dowjones
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