Sentences with phrase «of tight credit conditions»

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I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

«These adverse effects would weaken the credit quality of bank's loan portfolios and could lead to tighter lending conditions for households and businesses.

We've already seen some easing off in credit growth to the household sector, and this is part of the mechanism by which tighter financial conditions can be expected to restrain demand over time.

Looking back over the past fifteen years, in months when high yield credit spreads were widening, indicating tighter financial conditions and more risk aversion, the S&P 500 outperformed the Russell 2000 by an average of roughly 0.45 percent.

Large global sellers, by contrast, who choose credit insurance primarily for financing purposes, retain a portion of the credit risk on their balance sheet and manage it through their tighter payment terms and conditions.

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Overall, as the statements after the past five Board meetings have made clear, the sequence of changes to the cash rate, other adjustments by lenders in response to the rise in term funding costs since mid 2007 and tighter credit standards have combined to produce financial conditions that are tight.

Five to six million new renter households may be created within the next 10 years, likely caused from low inventories of homes available and tight credit conditions, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

In Q1 of this year, the balance of lenders reporting tighter conditions on unsecured credit was the highest in the eleven - year history of the survey.

NAR President Ron Phipps, broker - president of Phipps Realty in Warwick, R.I., said buyers are responding to very good affordability conditions despite tight mortgage credit.

A highly leveraged company with low liquidity can be forced into bankruptcy through a single period of poor profitability and tight credit conditions — even if historical profits have been good.

National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun recently pinned the August slow - down in pending home sales — contract signings eased 1.6 percent — on tight inventory conditions, higher interest rates, rising prices and restrictive mortgage credit.

The combination of the credit market resurgence and tight spreads, attractive equity valuations and ample private equity «dry powder» create the conditions for increasing the volumes of [leveraged buy - outs (LBOs)-RSB-.

Trends and Economic Environment: We believe that the deteriorating economic conditions, rising unemployment, tight credit markets, and heightened uncertainty in financial markets during the past 18 months have adversely impacted discretionary consumer spending, including spending on the types of electronic devices that are accessorized by our products.

The depressed state of the housing market, very tight credit conditions in the mortgage market, mortgage rates rising an average of 35 bps all weighed.

«Limited job prospects, student debt, and flat wage growth have combined with tight credit conditions and low inventory to price millennials out of some of the top cities such as New York and San Francisco,» says Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist.

Despite a large pent - up demand from years of below - normal home sales, inventory constraints and tight credit conditions continue to impede the market, in combination with strongly rising home prices and higher mortgage interest rates.

Despite steadily improving local job markets and historically low mortgage rates, the U.S. homeownership rate is stuck near a 50 - year low because of a perverse mix of affordability challenges, student loan debt, tight credit conditions and housing supply shortages.

«Similar to some of the obstacles facing first - time buyers, tighter credit conditions and having less purchasing power than households with dual incomes likely led to the share of single - female buyers declining to its lowest since 2001 (also 15 percent),» noted Dr. Yun.

Five to six million new renter households may be created within the next 10 years, likely caused from low inventories of homes available and tight credit conditions, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

«This fifth consecutive month of improvement in builder confidence provides further assurance that the housing market is moving in a positive direction, but there's still a long way to go on the road to recovery and several obstacles are slowing our progress,» says NAHB Chairman Barry Rutenberg, a home builder from Gainesville, Fla. «In particular, unnecessarily tight credit conditions are preventing many builders from putting crews back to work — which would create needed jobs — and discouraging consumers from pursuing a new - home purchase.»

«The recovery is occurring despite excessively tight credit conditions and higher downpayment requirements, which are negating the impact of record high affordability conditions,» Yun says.

For the 88 - million - strong millennial generation, the oldest of which is 34 years old, the combination of high appreciation, low inventories, and continuing tight credit conditions is making home ownership a stretch few can afford.

«During the depths of the Great Recession, at least half of my clients relied on FHA - backed loans because of extremely tight credit conditions,» said Brown.

«Limited job prospects, student debt and flat wage growth have combined with tight credit conditions and low inventory to price Millennials out of some of the top cities such as New York and San Francisco,» he says.