Consumer Credit Jumps... a Good Thing?

Bloomberg details: Consumer credit climbed more than forecast in May, led by the biggest jump in credit-card debt in almost five years that...

The Consumer is Back... Consumer Credit Positive (Even Excluding Student Loans)

SF Gate details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. surged in March by the most in more than a decade on growing demand for educational financi...

Consumer Credit: The Good and the Bad

Marketwatch details: Credit has risen for 5 straight months and fifteen out of the last sixteen months. But analysts noted that all of the ...

Consumer Credit Continues to Rebound

Bloomberg details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. rose more than forecast in December, driven by demand for auto and student loans. Credit ...

Consumer Credit Set to Be a Positive Contributor to Growth

The WSJ details: The level of consumer credit outstanding increased by $20.37 billion to $2.478 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Monday. ...

Consumer Credit (Excluding Student Loans) Now Below 50 Year Average

Bloomberg outlines: U.S. consumer borrowing rose in October to the highest level in two years, propelled by gains in non-revolving debt lik...

Deleveraging is Not a Myth

The New Yorker's The Develeraging Myth states (at a high level) that consumers are not deleveraging because they are still spending: Am...

Students Heart Debt... Everyone Else Deleveraging

Bloomberg details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. rose by the most in more than three years in July, led by a gain in non-revolving credit ...

Consumer Credit Jumps in June

While this will certainly not be the top data point investors are digesting, the AP detailed on Friday that consumers are once again levera...

Has Re-Leveraging Begun?

Non-revolving credit is now at new all-time highs and the revolving cliff dive has hit a bottom (i.e. it is turning up... for now). Source: ...

More on Consumer Credit

Karl Denninger details why the jump in non-revolving consumer credit was not necessarily all it was made out to be (hat tip Jim Driscoll )...

The Consumer Credit Split

Bloomberg details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in October for a second straight month, led by an increase in non-revol...

Consumers Getting Responsible?

The NY Fed (hat tip Calculated Risk ) details that the decline in consumer credit outstanding is due in large part to consumer retrenchment...

Consumer Credit Breakdown

Reuters details: Total consumer credit outstanding declined for the seventh straight month in August as credit card debt continued to fall....

Consumer Credit Continues Decline, Though Past Months Revised Up

Marketwatch details: U.S. consumers shed some of their debt in June for the fifth month in a row, the Federal Reserve reported Friday. Tota...

Consumer Credit Freefall

BusinessWeek details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. dropped in May more than forecast, a sign Americans are less willing to take on debt ...

Consumer Credit Split

I wonder if this is the consumer taking advantage of low rates and locking them in for a longer period, but a definite divergence between re...

Consumer Credit Steady... Details Mixed

The latest consumer credit released occurred late Friday. Business Week details: Consumer borrowing in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in March ...

Consumer Credit Contracts from January Bounce

Been on the road away from it all this morning / early afternoon. It looks like I missed an interesting day of news. CNN Money details one ...

Was Consumer Delevering Part II

On Monday I asked if the consumer was relevering and showed the below chart (makes special note of the revolving debt). Felix Salmon with ...