On the heels of a major deposit outflow the week before, and a huge (record) money-market fund outflow last week, all eyes are back on the banks again on Friday evening to see if this ‘flight’ continues as Tax-Day drags cash away from its comfy-5%-earnings-spots.
On a seasonally-adjusted basis, total US bank deposits declined for the second straight week (though only $2.4BN) after reaching back to pre-SVB levels…
Source: Bloomberg
And once again – like last week, and rather oddly giving the tax-day’ timing – non-seasonally-adjusted bank deposits rose $16BN, now well above pre-SVB levels…
Source: Bloomberg
Is some of the money-market cash being moved (temporarily) into bank deposits before heading out to tax man?
Source: Bloomberg
Historically, it appears NEXT week is when we see the Tax-Day decline in the NSA data…
Source: Bloomberg
Excluding foreign deposits, domestic bank deposits did fall on both an SA (-$2.9BN – large banks -$14.8BN, small banks +11.9BN) and NSA (-$12bn – large banks -$24BN, small banks +12BN) basis.
Source: Bloomberg
But, unlike last week when deposits dropped, we saw bank loan volumes rise (not fall) in the week ending 4/10 with large bank voilumes rising 0.65BN and small bank volumes rising $7.3BN…
Source: Bloomberg
Finally, as we detailed earlier, it appears the reality of bank reserves at The Fed is slowly (but surely) catching up with US equity market cap…
Source: Bloomberg
That’s going to get awkward in an election year…
Tyler Durden
Fri, 04/19/2024 – 16:44
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