Economists hopeful despite grim lending figures

29 November 2019

 

The pace of lending to the non-bank private sector by financial institutions in Australia has been trending down since October 2015. It appeared to have stabilised in the September quarter of 2018 but then subsequent credit figures put paid to that idea. Despite some optimism emerging in the housing market following the re-election of the Coalition Government in May, lending figures have continued to slow to a rate not that...

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