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V\_V\_V\_V\_EX' 1/ Rate on new issues within period; bank-discount basis.DY' 2/ Yields on the more actively traded issues adjusted to?Z' constant maturities by the Department of the Treasury.E[' 3/ Effective rate (in the primary market) on conventionalC\' mortgages, reflecting fees and charges as well as contractB]' rate and assuming, on the average, repayment at end of 10D^' years. Rates beginning January 1973 not strictly comparable_' with prior rates.H`' 4/ Bank-discount basis; prior to November 1979, data are fora' 4-6 months paper.Hb' 5/ For monthly data, high and low for the period. Prime rate:c' for 1929-33 and 1947-48 are ranges of the rate in"d' effect during the period.Cf' Sources: Department of the Treasury, Board of Governors of