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Private bankruptcy filings are blowing past their COVID-era peaks as credit stress builds for small businesses
Market Insider ^ | 4/1/2023 | MI

Posted on 04/06/2023 11:56:17 AM PDT by mikelets456

Warning signs of a potential credit crunch were flashing even before Silicon Valley Bank's stunning collapse, as this year sees record high bankruptcy filings by small- to mid-sized private businesses, according to UBS.

Financial markets this month were whipped around after the biggest bank failure since the global financial crisis highlighted worries about the impact of tighter credit conditions for American businesses and consumers.

["We] believe one of the more underappreciated signs of distress in US corporate credit is already emanating from the Small and Mid-size Enterprises sector," Matthew Mish, head of credit strategy at UBS, wrote in a recently published research note.

(Excerpt) Read more at markets.businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bankruptcies; businesses; small

1 posted on 04/06/2023 11:56:17 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: mikelets456

Burn it down.
Burn it to the ground
Burn the ground

Sell the charcoal.


2 posted on 04/06/2023 11:57:38 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: mikelets456

Let’s Go Brandon!


3 posted on 04/06/2023 11:58:59 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: mikelets456

There’s gonna be alot of pain when many companies need to refi at the newest interest rates.
Some REIT mogul recently said if rates don’t come down he will not be able to find financing at all for his portfolio.


4 posted on 04/06/2023 12:00:14 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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Anyone holding REITS needs to dump them now.


5 posted on 04/06/2023 12:01:47 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: immadashell

The economy is way worse than most people know. The MSM protect Biden fortress is holding but the truth is beginning to leak out because it will reach the point it can no longer be hidden. The rats redefined how unemployment is calculated and MSM let them just like they let them remove food and fuel from the inflation figures.


6 posted on 04/06/2023 12:04:39 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: griswold3

A lot of the distressed real estate was bought years ago at say 1990 and 2001 prices.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 12:04:48 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: gibsonguy

There are lots of people with lots of wealth.

If their stocks are up 10-fold instead of 20-fold they still got plenty.


8 posted on 04/06/2023 12:07:00 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: mikelets456

An economy feeding off of consumerism on drugs and debauchery can’t heat up forever.


9 posted on 04/06/2023 12:34:04 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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