The Federal Reserve has revised its historical ABCP volume numbers back to May 2000 to adjust for previously unaccounted for programs that caused a near $30 billion spike when added in late April.
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With these revisions, it appears that ABCP volume has been, for the most part, steadily increasing through May — ending the month up $13 billion to $737 billion. However, the month-end April figure, which had seemingly spiked more than $23 billion pre Fed-revision, actually declined about $4 billion, by these new figures.