Rising defaults have widened credit spreads during the past year, preventing borrowing costs for less creditworthy firms from falling in response to looser monetary conditions. Given that subprime borrowers drive the bulk of shadow lending and a large portion of corporate bond issuance, this could limit the scale of any policy-driven rebound in credit growth.
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