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Household Borrowing Monitor (Oct.)

Annual consumer credit growth continued to slow in October, reaching a three-year low, providing further evidence that consumers’ appetite for unsecured debt is waning a little. But so long as a Brexit deal is struck, we think that a continued recovery in real wages means slowing credit growth should not undermine the recent consumer recovery.

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