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Consumer Credit Bounces In June But Credit Cards See Net Drawdown In Two Years

US DATA
  • Consumer credit increased by more than expected in June at $17.8B (cons $13.55B) after a particularly low $9.5B in May had marked the softest increase since Nov’20.
  • There are some interesting details, with revolving credit (credit cards and the like) seeing its first decline since Apr’21 at -$0.6B after +$8.5B in what could be down to lower gross issuance under tightening conditions or greater repayments to reduce higher yielding data, or a combination of the two. This is however put in scale by charts below.
  • Non-revolving debt (vehicle and tuition loans) meanwhile jumped $18.5B after just $0.97B in May, for the highest monthly increase since Oct’22.

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