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Consumer Credit Up $1 Billion In April–A Rounding Error

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The Federal Reserve announced that consumer credit rose $1 billion from March to April, a meaningless number because of its size. Total outstanding consumer credit for the month was $2.44 trillion. The figure has changed very little from the fourth quarter of last year.

Courtesy of the Fed:

CONSUMER CREDIT OUTSTANDING 1
Seasonally adjusted
2009 2010
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 r Q1 r Feb r Mar r Apr p
Percent change at annual rate 2
Total 4.5 4.1 5.7 1.5 -4.4 -3.9 -4.8 -3.1 -6.1 -1.6 -3.8 -2.7 0.5
Revolving 3.8 5.0 8.1 1.6 -9.6 -9.6 -9.7 -7.3 -13.3 -9.0 -12.1 -5.3 -12.0
Nonrevolving 3 4.9 3.6 4.4 1.5 -1.3 -0.5 -1.9 -0.6 -2.1 2.5 0.7 -1.2 7.1
Amount: billions of dollars
Total 2291.7 2385.7 2522.8 2561.1 2448.8 2536.3 2506.1 2486.9 2448.8 2439.0 2444.4 2439.0 2440.0
Revolving 830.5 872.2 942.9 958.1 866.0 935.1 912.6 895.9 866.0 846.5 850.2 846.5 838.0
Nonrevolving 3 1461.2 1513.5 1579.9 1602.9 1582.8 1601.1 1593.5 1591.0 1582.8 1592.5 1594.2 1592.5 1602.0
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