Every three months, the Federal Reserve issues the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices, known in markets as the SLOOS report. Most of the time, the survey does not get much ...

A credit crunch might be on its way. Signs of banks tightening credit have already popped up in recent months as the Federal Reserve has hiked interest rates to the highest level in more than a decade ...

In the wake of several high-profile bank failures, Federal Reserve officials warn that consumers are likely to face tighter credit conditions when applying for loans, including mortgages. Put simply, ...

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 ...

The banking turmoil has spawned a new worry for investors: a credit slump that's threatening the economy. Latest bank lending data suggests the credit crunch "has already started," according to Morgan ...

The next recession was supposed to be different for commercial real estate (“CRE”) – less painful, less focused on CRE. But recent events are challenging that view. The problem this time is not ...

Hi, let me try to break this down for you. So *** credit crunch is just how it sounds right. It's when banks tighten their lending standards to keep *** healthy balance sheet. So you know how banks ...

Entrepreneurs may be starting to feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, because once again, banks reported tighter lending standards and weaker demand for business loans, according to the fourth ...

But other indicators show less reason for optimism. Take small businesses, which are facing more difficulty raising money since worries about regional banks flared up last month. A net 9% of owners ...

Together with the lagged effects of Fed rate hikes, recent bank failures are likely to adversely affect credit conditions. The impact on small businesses, which employ the largest share of workers in ...

While Congress bickers over how to fix the financial meltdown, there’s a decent chance you haven’t even felt it. Why, you may be asking yourself, does everyone think there’s such a big a problem when ...