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Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Release: St. Louis Bi-Weekly Reserves and Monetary Base
Units: Billions of Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Biweekly, Ending Wednesday
Updates of this series will be ceased on December 19, 2019. This series doesn't convey any additional information beyond what's available in the base series published through the H.3 release, BOGMBASEW. View both series (plotted on the same graph) for comparison here.
For more details, see the FRED Announcement.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base (DISCONTINUED) [BASENS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASENS, May 27, 2023.
Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US)
Release: H.3 Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base
Units: Billions of Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency: Monthly
Excess reserves are those deposits held by depository institutions at the Fed not used to satisfy statutory reserve requirements plus that vault cash held by the same institutions not used to satisfy statutory reserve requirements. Excess reserves equals total reserves less required reserves.
As stated by the source: The concept of Excess reserves, defined as total reserve balances less reserve balance requirements, no longer aligns with the remuneration structure following phase two of the simplification of reserves administration. https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-8562
Nevertheless, to get at the historical concept of Excess reserves using the new H.3 statistical release, take Total reserve balances maintained (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESBALNS) less Reserve balance requirements (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESBALREQ). Alternatively, one can view excess as the amount of balances maintained that satisfy the minimum requirements, which can be calculated by taking Total reserve balances maintained (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESBALNS) less Bottom of penalty-free band (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RESBRQBPF).
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), Excess Reserves of Depository Institutions (DISCONTINUED) [EXCRESNS], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCRESNS, May 27, 2023.
St. Louis Adjusted Monetary Base (DISCONTINUED)
Excess Reserves of Depository Institutions (DISCONTINUED)