Monetary Indicators Monitor (Aug 13.)

The latest monetary indicators show that bank lending is starting to pick up. But July’s rise in lending is not as good as it seems, since it largely reflected firms swapping bond for bank finance probably in response to the rise in market interest rates. Firms’ overall appetite for funds is still depressed.

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