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Sharp decline in credit impulse for non-financial corporations

11/14/2019
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The credit impulse has declined in September, moderately for households and much more noticeably for non-financial corporations (NFC). For the latter, the credit impulse has hit its lowest level since the beginning of the asset purchases programme by the ECB at the start of 2015. These movements contrast with the stability of GDP growth in the third quarter in the Eurozone (with a year-on-year rate of 1.2%, like in the second quarter). They almost exclusively involve loans with a maturity of less than one year, which is mainly related to destocking behaviour. For the fourth quarter of 2019, banks interrogated by the ECB anticipate a continued moderation of demand by NFCs and an intensification of demand for housing loans by households.

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