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Rates & Fed · August 13, 2026 · 2 min read

Fed H.4.1 Data Put Reserve Balances at $2.944 Trillion on August 12

By Econ Data Tools Editorial Team

Published August 13, 2026 • Updated August 21, 2026

The Federal Reserve’s August 13 H.4.1 release reported $2.944 trillion in reserve balances at Federal Reserve Banks on August 12, down $49.3 billion from the preceding week.

CONFIRMED FACTS The Federal Reserve Board’s H.4.1 release dated August 13, 2026 reported reserve balances with Federal Reserve Banks of $2,944,059 million for Wednesday, August 12. The release reported this as $49,290 million lower than the week ended August 5 and $375,991 million lower than the corresponding August 13, 2025 figure. The same table reported total factors supplying reserve funds of $6,805,829 million on August 12 and total factors other than reserve balances absorbing reserve funds of $3,861,769 million. The difference between those published totals is $2,944,060 million; the one-million-dollar difference from the reported reserve-balance figure is consistent with the release’s note that components may not sum to totals because of rounding. The release also reported a U.S. Treasury General Account balance of $963,950 million and currency in circulation of $2,474,891 million on August 12. These are separate balance-sheet factors in the H.4.1 table. ANALYSIS The release records a week-over-week decline in aggregate reserve balances. Reserve balances are deposits held at Federal Reserve Banks, not a measure of household bank deposits, consumer credit, or the rate paid on a particular savings account. The balance-sheet identity provides accounting context for the reported total but does not, by itself, identify the cause of the weekly change. UNKNOWNS AND LIMITS H.4.1 figures are weekly Federal Reserve balance-sheet data and may include estimated items; the release flags currency in circulation as estimated. The data do not establish the cause or persistence of the reserve-balance change, the future path of monetary policy, the amount of bank lending, or financial conditions faced by any particular household or business. Components are rounded and may not sum exactly to reported totals. UPDATE LOG Published August 13, 2026 after direct review of the Federal Reserve Board’s H.4.1 release dated August 13, 2026. The live Data Brief inventory and published database source records were checked for duplicate slug, canonical source URL, and substantive overlap before publication; no published brief covered this H.4.1 release or its reserve-balance reading.

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