Chart of the Day: The Bear Market in Lending

As the deleveraging continues, we are seeing corporations flood into the corporate bond market as lenders remain reluctant to lend. This is just one more sign that the risk to the economy remains deflation as banks horde cash and boost lending standards.

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[cyclingscholar]

<<is the fact that Dow Jones will never break 11000 level. Now you decide what you will do with your lovely stocks.>>


Never? NEVER? NEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVV...

Illiterate, innumerate, or both!

2009 Nov 29 10:33 AM

[auto44]

You forgot to blame your government' who or whom you may or may not have voted for. Believe it or not they are far more culpable than the banks they are suppose to regulate.


On Nov 29 02:54 AM chris coonan wrote:

> Small business can't issue bonds, what is the option? Reduction of
> business, capital expenditure, human capital. The recession is not
> over, thanks to the banks.

2009 Nov 29 11:09 AM

[je]

I don't know what gives with Oakville grade - they (he/she) have 40 comments to their credit and every one is a carbon copy of this one. What is the point I ask them?

2009 Nov 29 12:43 PM