The credit cycle lies at the heart of our financial system. Corporations and households rely on the availability of credit to facilitate economic growth and ensure financial stability. Unfortunately, ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - After a financially difficult 2025 marked by frozen SNAP benefits, growing grocery prices, and ...

Our entire financial system revolves around credit. This includes the ability to access credit for new loans, and more importantly, the refinancing of existing loans. At the center of any credit ...

The credit cycle does not yet seem to have turned; at worst, it is mixed. Last quarter we were wondering in our Q1 commentary, will this be the year credit trends reverse? Corporate spreads are tight; ...

Hyman Minsky, the late American credit-cycle expert, never tired of teaching that credit cycles were a regular feature of our economy. After prolonged periods of easy money led to careless bank ...

Monetary policy around the world is changing as many central banks are attempting to tighten financial conditions in order to control rampant inflation. As illustrated below, negative-yielding ...

Sector wise, NBFCs grew their credit portfolios by close to 20% in FY25, significantly outpacing banks which expanded by 12%.

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We use multivariate unobserved components models to estimate trend and cyclical components in gross domestic product (GDP), credit volumes, and house prices for the USA and the five largest European ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Flash back to 1998. Sign up here. Wall Street is worked up over the sudden bankruptcy of Southern Pacific Funding Corp., a subprime lender that writes mortgages for people with ...

In 1999, I began saying the tech bubble would eventually spark a recession. Timing was unclear because stock bubbles can blow way later than we can imagine. Then the yield curve inverted, and I said ...