New York, Apr. 25. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system, in their report for the week ended Apr. 20 respecting the entire body of reporting member banks of the system. reveal an increase of total loans amounting to $18,000,000 compared h the previous week, but a decrease of $817,000,000 from the corre-spending period of last year.
Investments show a decrease of $2,000,000 from last week and of $642,000,000 from the corresponding period of last year.
Total loans during the period under review amounted to $8,585,000,000; and investments—$12,224,000,000. Reuter,
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