Solid lending figures not expected to last into June quarter

31 March 2020

 

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 the annual growth rate then continued to deteriorate through 2019, despite some optimism emerging in the housing market following the re-election of the Coalition Government in May of that year. While senior RBA officials would like business...

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