delinquency
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Still, delinquency rates are especially elevated for those living in low-income areas and for younger borrowers, the researchers said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Advocates have expressed concern that those parents will soon begin to struggle, driving up already high delinquency and default rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
Loan growth, meanwhile, is largely matching the advances in nominal GDP, while credit delinquency rates have been in decline for much of the past two years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Other measures of card delinquency also don’t show that things are close to 2008-like trouble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Perhaps the self- righteous Trotter would be put into jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
Even before contending with residents’ delinquencies, HOAs have been facing rising costs for staffing, lawn care and materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
At some lenders, the portion of commercial real-estate loans in distress in the second quarter dropped sharply, though overall delinquencies across the sector remain relatively high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo all said that their 90-day-plus delinquencies were in the low single-digits and down from a year earlier in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The share of delinquencies on credit cards and car loans has also stabilized, albeit at elevated levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
From January to June 2007, the news from the pool—its delinquencies, its bankruptcies, its house foreclosures—had remained fairly consistent.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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