BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Credit Crunch
- a situation in which money for borrowing is unavailable
Additional Resources
- Is the end of the credit crunch finally in sight?
- This week marks the second anniversary of the beginning of the most traumatic global financial crisis in living memory, a crash that has brought banks to their knees, triggered the deepest recession since the 1930s and stretched the finances of some families to breaking point. August 9, 2007, will go...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Restaurants Squeezed by Credit Crunch
- Restaurants Squeezed by Credit CrunchRE: Restaurants Squeezed by Credit CrunchHello Dan,Well I think they will feel the pinch even more as more people continue to eat at home because of oil prices. I would not want to be in this arena right now and I feel for the good...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- The credit crunch: a domino effect
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction In the shadow of the spotlight focused on the faltering nationwide housing market comes the all-encompassing catch phrase "credit crunch." However, the term is neither a prophet of doom nor is it unique only in light of housing, especially--as have assumed--subprime mortgage loans. Like dominoes,...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- The Credit Crunch: 1929,1873,1836, 1492 All Over Again
- Last week in this space we noted that at least some scholars thought that the analogy between the current unpleasantness in the financial sector and the great stock market crash of 1929 an inapt one. They contend we must delve further back, to the crash of 1873 to find a...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Credit Crunch: Driven by Lack of Supply or Demand?
- East Coast Economics submits: Over the last few months we’ve seen a drastic increase in bank reserves. As I’ve pointed out on previous occasions, banks are soaking up the liquidity provided by the Fed’s various programs and the credit crunch continues. But what’s the reason? Is...
- External links 2009-03-12
- The Credit Crunch is Beginning to Unclench
- Housing sales are still awful, the stock market remains volatile, and the unemployment rate continues to rise. But there's one very important glimmer of hope: the government has successfully managed to unfreeze parts of the U.S. credit market, which had seized up almost completely after the once-unthinkable collapse of Lehman...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- MOODY'S REPORTS EMEA ABS MARKET HOLDS UP IN 2007 DESPITE CREDIT CRUNCH; UNCERTAIN 2008 ISSUANCE OUTLOOK
- Despite experiencing a setback related to the global credit crunch and a slight decrease in number of transactions, the Asset- Backed Securities ABS market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa EMEA recorded year-on-year growth in issuance volume of 1Despite experiencing a setback related to the global credit crunch and...
- Research articles 2008-01-30
- Will Federal Reserve efforts to ease the credit crunch work?(FEDERAL RESERVE)(Brief article)
- Will Federal Reserve efforts to ease the credit crunch work? Will Federal Reserve efforts to ease the credit crunch work?
- Research articles 2007-12-14
- IMF forecasts perfect storm in wake of credit crunch.
- The IMF has forecast a "perfect storm" that could engulf European and North American economies in the wake of the credit crunch. The IMF has forecast a "perfect storm" that could engulf European and North American economies in the wake of the credit crunch.
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Invesco Perpetual fund hit hard by US credit crunch.
- Invesco Perpetual's AGBP32.2m US Smaller Companies fund has been hit hard by the country's credit crunch, significantly underperforming its peer group. Invesco Perpetual's AGBP32.2m US Smaller Companies fund has been hit hard by the country's credit crunch, significantly underperforming its peer group.
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Healthcare Roundup: Advantage Commissions Targeted, Identity Rules Delayed, Death by Credit Crunch and More
- Humana, UnitedHealth call for caps on Medicare Advantage commissions -- Insurance agents who enroll seniors in Medicare Advantage plans --which are subsidized by the government but offered by private health-insurance plans -- are getting sizeable commissions from those insurers. Medicare will look into the commissions and whether they prompt overzealous...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Lloyds TSB takes small hit from credit crunch
- LONDON AFP — Lloyds TSB, the fourth-biggest bank in Britain, said on Tuesday that it had emerged relatively unscathed from the credit crunch in the first three months of the year. The collapse of the United States high-risk home loan market last year has seen many major commercial banks...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- Inflation, not credit crunch, is top concern worldwide: Paulson
- LONDON AFP — Inflation, and not the credit crunch, is the biggest economic concern worldwide, especially in developing countries, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in an interview Thursday. Speaking to the BBC on a visit to London, Paulson also said the comparison of the current economic climate in...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Darling in talks to beat credit crunch
- CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling will today meet mortgage lenders to discuss ways to help homeowners to survive the credit crunch. The Bank of England yesterday unveiled a pounds 50 billion scheme to tackle the credit crunch by allowing banks and building societies to swap their riskier mortgage-backed assets for safer...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Provident gaining from credit crunch
- Provident Financial, Britain's biggest doorstep lender, said yesterday that it had funding in place until 2010 and was gaining business as the credit crunch forced mainstream banks to tighten their lending. The company said more than 350m of agreed loans from its funding banks meant it was not...
- Research articles 2007-12-18
- Credit Crunch Cancelled!
- LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - Win Your Wedding With the Daily Star Sunday Debt Buster Richard Fenton of Surviving The Credit Crunch.org.uk and the Holiday Inn Richard Fenton, the Holiday Inn & Daily Star Sunday have decided...
- Research articles 2009-06-26
- Credit Crunch Now Hitting Venture Debt - Barron's
- Mark McQueen Wellington Financial submits: At a variety of points last year, we tried to take readers through the “trickle down” impact that the credit crunch would have on a variety of industries and verticals (see prior representative posts “Credit Market turmoil and its effect on the overall Canadian...
- External links 2008-08-19
- Could credit crunch be merely a 'myth'? - director of capital markets for Arthur Andersen Real Estate Services Group, Robert Davis, scrutinizes credit issues in commercial real estate market
- Renewed interest by institutional investors, growing liquidity as a result of debt securitizations, IPOs and new REIT offerings signal that "the commonly held view that the commercial real estate market is still afflicted by a 'credit crunch' is a myth," according to Robert Davis, worldwide director of capital markets for...
- Research articles 1992-12-16
- Infrastructure Funds Face Credit Crunch Issues
- David Enke submits: There is an interesting article in the Financial Times regarding the rush by some Australian infrastructure funds to divest assets. Just within the last month or so infrastructure has been receiving increased attention, some of which helped to trigger the creation of new infrastructure indexes (see...
- External links 2008-08-26
- Energy Roundup: Biomass from Areva-Duke, Green Credit Crunch, Funding for Confluence...
- Areva and Duke team to develop biomass -- French nuclear power giant Areva and Duke Energy are planning a joint venture to develop biomass power plants in the U.S. Areva is to will design and build the plants and Duke Energy it to manage them. [Source: StrategyEye] ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-25
