More US bank respondents reported to the Federal Reserve that they are seeing weaker demand for Commercial & Industrial Loans than at any time since the end of the Great "Recession." The Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) asks respondents to gauge certain factors with regard to various forms of lending.
In terms of new debt to commercial and industrial customers for commercial and industrial purposes, the survey conducted last month reports the net percentage of domestic financial firms indicating strong demand for these kinds of loans was -16.9%. Nearly seventeen