SLOOS Banking Lending Conditions- Released Monday 5th Feb 2024 Please review my prior post for a more detailed breakdown
Released quarterly, the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) is a survey of up to 80 large domestic banks and 24 branches of international banks to gain insight into credit, lending and bank practices. The Federal Reserve issues and collates the voluntary surveys.
The surveys generally include 25 questions and a number of special questions about development in banking practices. They cover practices for the previous three months, but also deal with expectations for the coming quarter and year. While some queries are quantitative, most are qualitative.
The surveys have come to cover increasingly timely topics, for example, providing the Fed with insight into bank forbearance policies and trends in response to the 2020 economic crisis.
Let’s have a look at the culmination of the some of the more important data in chart form
The Chart
The blue line on the chart plots the results of the SLOOS survey – specifically, the net percentage of polled banks reporting that they’ve tightened their lending standards to commercial and industrial customers.
The other lines are specified on the chart and are self explanatory .
PUKA
Banklending
US Banks Tightening Standards for Small, Medium, Large EntitiesThe lowest since the Tracking began in 1991.
We can see Peaks heavily Correlate to Peaks in the Equity Markets.
Lending is being Shut Down.
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2.367 @ 2007/2008 Peak
2.354 @ Dotcom Peak
Buy the Highs, P:S reverts to 1 or less in every Bubble.
-70% huh... no way man. You and Alexandra are Quazy!!!
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Okay - Good Luck.
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Loans to businesses: Respondents indicated that, on balance, they tightened their
standards and terms significantly on commercial and industrial (C&I) loans to firms
of all sizes.
Banks reported stronger demand for C&I loans from large and middle-market firms,
while demand for C&I loans from small firms was about unchanged.
Banks tightened standards and reported weaker demand across all three major
Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loan categories—construction and land development
loans, nonfarm nonresidential loans, and multifamily loans.
Loans to households, banks tightened standards across all three consumer loan categories:
Credit card loans, Auto loans, and Other Consumer Loans on net, while moderate
fractions of banks tightened their lending standards on most categories of Residential Real
Estate (RRE) loans.
Banks reported stronger demand for all categories of closed-end mortgage loans and
weaker demand for all categories of consumer loans.