Monday, December 7, 2015

Credit Card Debt Barely Rises In October As Both Student And Auto Loans Surpass $1 Trillion

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-07/credit-card-debt-barely-rises-october-both-student-and-auto-loans-surpass-1-trillion

After September's record surge in total consumer credit, when non-revolving credit soared by $22 billion while credit card jumped by a whopping $6.7 billion, something appears to have snapped in October when according to the Fed, just $16 billion of new credit was created, almost half the prior month, and far below the consensus estimate of a $20 billion increase. And yet there is little risk that debt-fueled spending on the two staples that have kept the US credit machine chugging along, namely student and car loans, both of which have just surpassed a total of $1 trillion in notional debt outstanding.

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