Increasing employment, increasing median home values, stable levels of consumer debt, historically
low credit card delinquency rates, and the second - lowest metro area unemployment rate in Kentucky in January 2018 spells steady growth for this metro area.
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Credit card delinquency rates remain low, at only 0.87 per cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per cent of total household debt in Canada.
Overall, seasonally - adjusted
credit card delinquency rates for U.S. banks rose to 2.47 percent in the second quarter from 2.20 percent a year earlier, according to New York Fed data.
Credit card delinquency rates reached an all - time low for the third straight month in August and the charge - off rate index is now more than 400 basis points lower than its level a year ago.
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Credit card delinquency rates remain low, at only 0.87 per cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per cent of total household debt in Canada.
Investors have given some blame to the rise in
credit card delinquency rates, the fall in loan demand, as well as the ever - flattening yield curve.
Prior to the Great Recession,
credit card delinquency rates were consistently higher than any other form of debt delinquency.
The credit card delinquency rate measures the ratio of borrowers 90 or more days delinquent on one or more of their bank - issued credit cards.
Some of the country's largest credit card issuers are suffering from large quarterly losses and are watching
their credit card delinquency rates rise to historic levels.
The same study also reported
the credit card delinquency rate was higher than the mortgage delinquency rate in December 2013 as well — indicating to analysts that consumers» payment habits are finally starting to shift for the first time in nearly five years.
According to the report,
the credit card delinquency rate fell, year over year, from 1.27 percent of all accounts in the second quarter of 2013 to 1.16 percent of all accounts in the second quarter of 2014.