PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Indeed, it appears time for entrepreneurs to reflect rising concerns over the economy, trade and other factors adding pressure to future performance. “But, eventually, the weakness spreads from manufacturing to the services side of the economy, triggering a more general economic slowdown.” market in the near future. .”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

percent, the biggest monthly decrease since December 2018, according to the Commerce Department. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers on Thursday (Nov. economy is the star economy these days … there’s no reason that can’t continue.”. Spending on furniture and home-furnishing sales dropped 0.9

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

business activity is starting to show signs of rebounding as global economies slow down, a Nov. This indicates that the “currency area’s economy was close to stagnation.”. Economists and analysts say it’s timing; the tariffs coincided with the start of the pullback in the third quarter of 2018. On the flip side, overall U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

He also officially named Janet Yellen , former head of the Federal Reserve, as treasury secretary. In general, Biden’s appointees are committed to building up the economy so as to lower unemployment and drive up workers’ wages. economy recover from the pandemic-induced crisis.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

By many measures, the economy looks strong. According to the New York Federal Reserve, household debt surged in the final quarter of 2017 to $13.15 Despite the decline in confidence, consumers’ expectations remain at historically strong levels, suggesting economic growth will continue well into 2018,” she said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Paysafecash, the release stated, will help the 22 percent of Americans with no bank accounts or who are underbanked according to the Federal Reserve's research. Paysafecash launched in 2018 and is now live in nearly 30 markets around the world, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

In today’s top news, many jobless Americans can’t afford to seek medical care, and the Fed’s Jerome Powell said the economy is far from a full recovery. banks took a profit hit of 69.6 percent in the first quarter of 2020. Jobless Americans Can’t Afford Doctor Visits. Powell: US Faces Long-Term Damage As Downturn Persists.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A Federal Reserve report showed that roughly 40 percent of consumers would struggle to cover an unexpected expense of $400. The same patterns were reflected in a 2018 PYMNTS study of household finances. Some 23 million Americans already reported that they were living from paycheck to paycheck.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2019

business loans and capital investment have essentially plateaued in the second half of 2019, in what experts say is a reflection of the slowing industrial economy. Most of it, too, was at mid-sized and small banks, according to data from the Federal Reserve. While there was growth in commercial and industrial loans of 1.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The news comes as Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says that signs are pointing to a slowdown in business spending this year. But she went on to say, “The global economy was firing on all cylinders in 2018 and now looks like we’ve got less strong and less synchronized global growth.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

“As a result of reduced economic activity, CBO estimates, real (that is, inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2018 was. ” But the shutdown will have larger implications on the economy, most notably a fall in consumer spending due to unpaid federal workers reducing their expenses. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Americans between the ages of 19 and 29 ended 2018 collectively owing more than $1 trillion in debt, the highest level for young adults since the end of 2007. These debt levels can have long-lasting effects on young adults’ spending as well.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

For big bank loans taken out before April of 2018, prospects of repayment are good, federal banking regulators said on Friday (Jan. However, the portion of loans owed by strongly leveraged borrowers is still high. Reuters reported that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Earlier this year the Federal Reserve forecast consumer debt to hit $4 trillion in the U.S. economy that continues to grow. Late last week The Wall Street Journal reported that home prices increased 5 percent in Canadian province British Columbia in 2018 because of money laundering. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Reuters, citing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, reported that household debt for the U.S. For November , the Federal Reserve reported that outstanding consumer credit rose by $27.95 Thanks in part to a rising number of mortgage loans, the debt levels of Americans increased during the last three months of 2017.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As concerns are raised about how industry consolidation might impact competition, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is warning that it could hinder small businesses’ access to capital and financial services. months in the first half of 2018, from 5.6 months in the first half of 2018, from 5.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Driving much of this action in the B2B space are gig economy workers , whose ranks have grown geometrically since the Great Recession. The Federal Reserve estimated the gig economy workforce at roughly 75 million Americans in 2018, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics has said freelancers could comprise 40 percent of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

A report from Packaged Facts, “ The Financial Services Market: African Americans and Hispanics, as of 2018 ,” found that while 70 percent of U.S. In fact, numbers from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt — which includes credit cards , auto loans, student loans and personal loans — is expected to hit $4 trillion this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

According to Federal Reserve Data , consumers opt for cash a little less than half the time (43 percent) when making a purchase of $10 or less. And 11 percent fewer consumers carry cash now than did in 2018. And mostly for low dollar purchases. At least before COVID-19, anyway. The study also found that the typical U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As noted by the New York Times and other media outlets, the economy remains on a trajectory that will see 3 percent growth in 2018, and that number has not been seen since 2005. The impact of inflation and its read across for interest rates, of course, has been closely watched, as the Federal Reserve has continued to boost rates.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To that end, the Federal Reserve proposed last week that some rules be relaxed for 16 financial institutions — though the largest banks in the country are not among them. Roughly a decade on, is it time to remove some of the rules governing the financial sector that took shape in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2008?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Total mortgage debt of one to four-family residences, as measured by the Federal Reserve, stood at $9 trillion as compared to $9.3 Much has been made in these pages about the warning signs that may be in the offing, as risk appetite has returned to lenders amid a booming economy. trillion at the peak of the financial crisis.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Federal Reserve finds small businesses are enjoying boosted confidence (and revenues). while the Federal Reserve found that small business optimism is on the rise, fewer entrepreneurs are seeking finance – just 40 percent of SMBs surveyed said they were seeking external funding, down from 45 percent in 2017.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

A strong national economy and plans to expand and welcome rising revenues allowed business owners and executives to retain a positive outlook, despite potentially disruptive issues like a global trade war. Industry Delinquency & Failures Report for Q3 2018 this month, concluding that while failure rates for U.S. 19 meeting.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2019

But rap music and hip-hop culture – arguably the greatest global culture force of this and the last generation – is moving on from cash, reflecting trends in the worldwide digital economy. Even beyond digital payments and hip hop, the concept of money keeps changing to keep up with trends from the broader consumer economy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

economy all but shut down to slow that pandemic’s spread. economy would imply, and were unlikely to ever attain their parents’ earnings potential. A major Pew study found that as of 2018, millennials with college degrees and full-time jobs were earning roughly what Generation Xers made in 2001.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

A little over a decade ago, something nearly unprecedented happened in the American economy: household debt contracted instead of growing. As of the last quarter of 2018, total U.S. At the end of 2018, super-prime borrowers with FICO scores north of 760 were taking out the majority of the new credit products.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2018

CNBC, citing comments Citi’s May made, reported that the slowdown in hiring is coming on the heels of a healthy rate of growth in jobs throughout 2018. The report was well received on Wall Street as investors bet it could be enough to stop the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

After a 2018 that had its highs and lows, what might 2019 have in store from a credit risk management standpoint? There is some evidence that this tightening is occurring, with the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) reporting higher reject rates based on its Oct. 2018 SCE Credit Access Survey. has experienced. has experienced.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

New data shows that Americans are on pace to accumulate a collective $4 trillion in consumer debt by the end of 2018. As far as paying off that debt, the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations shows that consumers, on average, expected there was only a 10.72 billion to $976.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

As the economy has more or less ground to a halt over the last several weeks, time has become harrowing for homeowners who face frozen income streams and continuing mortgage payments due to the coronavirus pandemic. Redefining Normal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

economy was running full steam ahead, with record employment levels, wages on the rise and a stock market so dominant that not one but four different companies managed to cross the $1 trillion market cap in the last few months of 2019. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the standard narrative goes, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Through TARP $700 billion federal dollars were released stabilize the financial system during the financial crisis with a big injection of liquidity. Insofar as the big banks didn’t fall like dominoes and the economy didn’t meltdown entirely in a barter system — the TARP program worked. economy is right now. The size of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Reuters , citing a report from the New York Federal Reserve Tuesday (Aug. percent in the second quarter, flat with the first quarter of 2018. American’s increased the amount of money they borrowed in the second quarter, with consumer borrowing reaching $13.29 trillion during the quarter ending in June. percent from 8.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The July jump is the biggest pick-up the index has seen in a decade, and is considered another piece of evidence that the Federal Reserve should proceed carefully with an interest rate increase. Core inflation spiked 2.9 The core measure of the CPI (Consumer Price Index, which excludes items like food and fuel) was up 2.4

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

The reading comes against a backdrop where the Federal Reserve has boosted rates twice in 2018, and where some observers expect there to be two additional rate hikes. That preliminary reading missed the 98 that economists had projected, according to Reuters’ polling. The number also compares unfavorably to the 97.1

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates. That amounts to $13.2

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