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debt hit a record high, while credit scores reached their highest point in a decade, as consumers loosen the purse strings.
TORONTO — Canadian household
debt hit a record high during the third quarter, as it grew at a faster pace than disposable income, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.
The cold reality is credit card
debt hit a record $ 1.02 trillion in November, according to figures released by the Federal Reserve.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, the household
debt - to - income ratio
hit another
record of 167.8 per cent.
China's economy expanded at a steady 6.7 % in the third quarter and looks set to
hit Beijing's full - year target, fueled by stronger government spending,
record bank lending and a red - hot property market that are adding to its growing pile of
debt.
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The average MBA
debt last year
hit a
record $ 107,172 at Sloan, up 25 % in four years from $ 86,688.
Shares of Singapore - listed offshore services company Ezra Holdings
hit record low on Wednesday as concerns over its
debt obligations continue to mount.
Outstanding revolving balances — largely credit card
debt — again
hit a
record high in January, while student and auto loan
debt grew by 5.6 %.
And in the face of
record valuations and
record debt, we're seeing rising interest rates (the yield on the 10 - year Treasury
hit 3 % last week for the first time since 2014) and other signs of inflation like rising oil and copper prices.
This mostly explains the why credit card
debt hits a new
record high every month now.
Statistics Canada, the country's data agency, said the ratio of household credit - market
debt to disposable income
hit 163.4 % in the April - to - June period, an increase from the upwardly revised 161.8 %
recorded in the first quarter.
With the Spanish banking sector's bad -
debt ratio
hitting a
record 6.5 % in May, a 16 - year high, stress test results brought few surprises and highlighted the need for further sector consolidation.
Household
debt continues to
hit record highs, with Canadians owing $ 1.67 for every dollar of disposable income they earned at the end of the third quarter of 2016.
I've left out the fact that household
debt hits a new
record every month.
Even though the company was posting
record sales and was on course to show a profit in the second quarter, earnings took a huge
hit from a $ 15.1 million loss on prepayment of
debt and $ 3 million in equity - based compensation charges.
Statistics Canada in March reported that the country's average household
debt - to - income ratio
hit a
record - high 167.3 per cent.
Reference: The Globe and Mail - Household
debt ratio
hits record.
Although bankruptcy filings have been trending downward for years, household
debt is expected to
hit a new
record in 2017.
According to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), China's household
debt - to - GDP ratio
hit a
record high of 45 % + in the first quarter of this year.
The average family
debt - to - income ratio in Canada has now
hit a
record 150 per cent, the Vanier Institute of the Family said Thursday.
Household
debt levels have
hit record levels in recent years and housing markets have boomed, helped by low interest rates that have allowed consumers to borrow cheaply.
Just last year, Canada's household
debt burden
hit record highs, and holiday spending was up another 8 percent.
Household
debt continues to
hit record highs, with Canadians owing $ 1.67 for every dollar of disposable income they earned at the end of the third quarter of 2016.
Total outstanding student loan
debt has
hit record levels, recently topping $ 1 trillion.
Earlier this year, the household
debt - to - income ratio
hit another
record of 167.8 per cent.
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