One way is to ensure that credit can continue to be extended to customers.
It is a good sign to see the revolving credit numbers continue to drop.
"Knowing that asset prices have just barely risen from troughs, we expect credit problems to continue to emerge from unknowable places at unknowable times, " he says.
Today, concerns about capital, asset quality, and credit risk continue to limit the willingness of many intermediaries to extend credit, even when liquidity is ample.
More-expensive and less-available credit seems likely to continue to be a source of restraint on economic growth.
Meanwhile, credit unions continue to push for Congress to approve an increase of their caps on commercial loan portfolios in order to offer more loans to local businesses.
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Credit card issuers continue to sweeten the rewards, hoping to add consumers with excellent credit scores to their portfolios.
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But even sharp cuts might not cause banks to loosen credit, if their balance sheets continue to deteriorate.
With these improvements, growth in the market for credit derivatives is likely to continue apace.
Noncash payments such as checks and credit cards will continue to be settled by the cent, however.
Pegging the federal funds rate close to zero for another three years and twisting the yield curve to lower longer-term rates will continue to misprice credit, penalize saving, and encourage risk.
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But what people underestimate is that it is nearly impossible to keep from adding to your debt load if you continue to use your credit cards.
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E-Trade will have to continue to work to improve its credit profile and weather losses and negative cash flow.
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Lower balances are good for consumers because credit card interest rates continue to climb.
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We had been thinking the Fed would wait until December for this rate cut, but credit and housing markets continue to show difficulties and the financial markets have the full expectation of a rate cut.
The virtue of these policies in the current context is that they allow the Federal Reserve to continue to push down interest rates and ease credit conditions in a range of markets, despite the fact that the federal funds rate is close to its zero lower bound.
Future housing markets are likely to be increasingly vulnerable to destructive price swings if credit-fueled demand and no-growth sentiment continue to flourish.
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Against a backdrop of low interest rates that are likely to stay that way for several years, I continue to recommend exposure to more credit-sensitive areas of the fixed income market.
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Credit Suisse says it will continue to cooperate with the U.S. authorities, subject to those rules.
Banks continue to tighten credit, and their own belts Citigroup has even restricted colour photocopying.
Would it make sense to continue extending cheap credit to state-owned heavy manufacturers at the expense of greener private-sector start-ups?
With effect from April 21st, banks must continue to extend credit even to companies that have defaulted on debt repayments.
And in any case the conventional strategy of lower rates may not be strong enough as long as banks continue to restrict credit.
Still some credit trends are not as bullish as home-loans continue to have a higher rate of delinquency even among those borrowers with good credit.
On Tuesday, he said the Fed would consider extending its direct lending window to Wall Street companies (aka, primary dealers typically not allowed to borrow directly from the Fed) beyond a mid-September deadline to promote stability, as long as short-term debt markets continue to be severely constrained by the credit crisis.
"A waiver of the Jackson-Vanik amendment would pave the way for restored Soviet access to both direct U.S. government loans and credit guarantees and, in effect, encourage our allies to continue -- and even expand -- taxpayer-subsidized financial transfers, " says Roger W. Robinson, former senior director for international economic affairs at the National Security Council and member of the Center's Board of Advisors.
Corporate treasurers fear bank credit will dry up if banks continue to be mired in their own financial difficulties.
The trifecta of rising food and energy prices, tight credit, and sinking home prices continue to weigh heavily on consumers wallets.
Housing prices continue to fall, leaving many with mortgages greater than the value of their homes, and banks continue to suffer major credit losses as a result.
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