Growth in Consumer Credit Slows
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WASHINGTON -- Consumers kept charging at a rapid pace on their credit cards in July although their overall borrowing slowed a bit.
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U.S. consumers will curb spending this year after being hit by continued troubles in the housing sector, but business investment is set to pick up, adding to economic growth later this year, according to a survey of economists released on Sunday.
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Shoppers spent more freely in July as consumer spending rose slightly, though tepid growth in personal income raised concern about whether the trend will continue.
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The housing slowdown has caused Americans to miss more payments on home loans, though more appear to be paying their credit card bills on time.
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The US economy grew more slowly in the second quarter than previously stated, as it struggled under an increasing trade deficit and a slowdown in consumer spending, the Commerce Department said Friday.
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Business & money: Housing market slows as mortgage approvals fall.
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Lawmakers accused federal regulators yesterday of moving too slowly to implement rules to help consumers fix errors on their credit reports.
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The U.S. economy will grow at a moderate clip in 2007 as consumer spending growth slows and business spending moderates during the second half, a key economic forecast released on Tuesday showed.
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Investor's Business Daily - Credit woes are easing and its impact on growth will be muted, Robert Steel, Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance, told CNBC. &quot;The U.S. economy is strong and we&#39;re optimistic the penalty (on growth from credit woes) will be modest,&quot; he said. Credit markets should mostly be functioning normally by year-end, he said.
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U.S. consumer credit rose $6.44  billion in January as growth in closed-end consumer loans for  cars, holidays and other big-ticket items outstripped slower  growth in credit card usage, a Federal Reserve report showed on  Wednesday.
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A swathe of figures have provided further evidence of a slowdown in the UK property market. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), British Bankers Association (BBA) and Building Societies Association (BSA) all said mortgage lending was slowing.
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Americans are falling further behind on consumer loans, with late payments rising to the highest level since the nation's last recession in 2001, data released Thursday show.
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Spending rose slightly more than expected, while personal income rose 0.5 percent, the government said. For all of 2007, consumer spending grew by 5.5 percent, the weakest growth since 2003.
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New reforms aim to avert another Rock-style crisis as consumers and firms face worsening of credit supply
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Welcome to the dawn of a new credit cycle, with tighter bank lending, rising costs for riskier borrowers and a slowing economy.
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The most recent figures from the Federal Reserve noted an uptick of more than 9 percent in "revolving credit" -- that is, the debt carried by the millions of American consumers who don't pay off their cards every month -- putting the total at $888.2 billion as of March.
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Mortgage lending slows to its lowest level in a year in August, but credit card spending continues to boom, Bank of England figures show.