Lending growth hits 9% in May as part of “late-cycle flourish”

30 June 2022

 

Summary: Private sector credit up 0.8% in May, above expectations; annual growth rate up from 8.6% to 9.0%; “a late cycle flourish”, likely near peak; business loans account for about 55% of net growth. The pace of lending to the non-bank private sector by financial institutions in Australia followed a steady-but-gradual downtrend from late-2015 through to early 2020 before hitting what appears to be a nadir in March 2021. That...

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