Tightening

In addition, banks were already tightening credit before the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco, and are now tightening even more as issues in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loom.

According to most economists in a Reuters poll, the Fed will end its tightening cycle after a 25 basis point hike at each of its next two policy meetings, and then likely hold interest rates steady for at least the rest of the year.

Although lending standards have been tightening, they are not at extremes, and solvent borrowers continue to have access to capital.

And a sustained tightening in this reading has historically been a reliable indicator of an existing or pending economic recession.

And certainly, in the current environment, when -- I don't know if you want to say it's just budget flush or just more tightening of budgets, the need or the desire to co-term the contract is a little bit less than what we've seen historically.

And the bigger and increasingly vulnerable a Bubble becomes, the more cautious central bankers will be with tightening measures.

And the US economy is likely to moderate from here as excess savings are depleted and the lagged effects of monetary policy tightening materialize.

Aside from the CBN currency redesign, other issues that triggered Naira depreciation include US monetary policy tightening that strengthened the US dollar and the proliferation of political activities with the US dollar.

As the Fed started Quantitative Tightening and raising interest rates, bank credit growth slowed to about 2% before abruptly contracting after the SVB failure.

As we know, tightening financial conditions lead to wider spreads and higher implied volatility, and it will end the stock market rally.

At the same time, the Fed is progressing with “quantitative tightening” – a reversal of the massive central bank bond purchases undertaken to support markets in 2020.

Australia’s labour market has been surprisingly robust in the face of the central bank’s aggressive tightening, but cracks have finally appeared.

Basically, I think the Fed is over-tightening monetary policy and in the same way it was overstimulating the economy in 2021, when the inflation rate was accelerating.

BENGALURU, Aug 23 - India stocks will trade only modestly higher at year-end, according to a Reuters poll of equity analysts who said a correction was likely before then, citing tightening global financial conditions as a risk.

BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda, for his part, has warned against rushing into tightening.

Bonds are now on course to narrowly avert a third consecutive annual loss after the economy started to fade and the Fed stopped tightening.

But I am very glad that we stayed clear-eyed in the past – we’re still going to be tightening our belts, but we’ve avoided catastrophe by keeping our dreams a little smaller, as sad as that can sometimes feel.

But most Latin American countries have relatively little debt in comparison, they are further into their credit tightening cycles, and they actually benefit from the higher commodity prices.

But there were signs in the February report that extreme tightening of the job market may be easing.

But with Inverness Caledonian Thistle and the prospect of the treble awaiting at Hampden on Saturday, some tightening up was required.