credit squeeze

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The biggest threat to the economic outlook is a credit squeeze that has not finished filtering through the financial system, a senior official at Fidelity Investments told a European equities conference on Wednesday.

From Reuters • Apr. 19, 2023

Gregory Daco, chief economist at the consulting firm EY-Parthenon, said he thinks a significant credit squeeze would have “slightly more’’ of an economic impact than the quarter-point rate hike the Fed announced Wednesday.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023

But then, facing huge losses as the global credit squeeze hit hard, it was bailed out by the British government and reined in its ambitions.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

In one scenario, European banks that had lent money in the Turkish public and private sectors would face a credit squeeze if Turkey could not make its loan payments.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2018

Everyone could see that Libor rates had shot up, but questions began to be asked about whether they had climbed enough to reflect the severity of the credit squeeze.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2017