Large Bank Loan Volumes Slump Despite Fed Reporting Massive Deposit Inflows
Money-market funds saw inflows and banks’ usage of the Fed’s emergency BTFP facility hit a new high this week, so what malarkey does The Fed have in store when it tries to explain what happened to bank deposits.
Seasonally-adjusted, total deposits rose by $17.6 billion last week (the 3rd straight week on SA inflows)…
Source: Bloomberg
And for once, non-seasonally-adjusted deposits rose too (by a huge $121 billion!)
Source: Bloomberg
The divergence between money-market fund assets and bank deposits remains extreme…
Source: Bloomberg
On a non-seasonally-adjusted basis, Large banks saw $81BN inflows and Small banks $53BN inflows (while Foreign banks suffered a $12BN deposit outflow)…
Source: Bloomberg
The big surge in NSA (out of nowhere) magically recoupled it with the cumulative SA deposit outflows…
Domestically (removing foreign deposit flows), banks saw a massive $134BN inflow (NSA), which was whittled down to a $31.5BN inflow (SA)…
Source: Bloomberg
On the other side of the ledger the story gets murkier with large bank loan volumes tumbling almost $10 billion as small bank lending accelerated…
Source: Bloomberg
Make of it what you will – but ‘baffle em with bullshit’ comes to mind on this dataset.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 08/11/2023 – 16:40
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