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【CNBC】UK economy flat in February as strikes and inflation bite — and the IMF delivers reality check

  • Large-scale strike action has been carried out in recent months by teachers, doctors, civil servants and rail workers, among others — members of the sectors that were the largest contributors to the fall in February services output.
  • Suren Thiru, economics director at ICAEW, said the Thursday GDP figures “suggest that the economy has lost momentum as sky high inflation and strike action continue to drag on key drivers of U.K. GDP, notably services and industrial production.”

【CNBC】Banking crisis forces ECB policymakers to rethink rate hikes, but focus still firmly on inflation

  • Headline inflation in the euro zone dropped significantly in March, but core inflation — which excludes volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices — rose to an all-time high.
  • March’s banking crisis has caused some ECB policymakers — such as Austrian National Bank Governor Robert Holzmann — to rethink their next moves.
  • Visco called for patience in assessing the ECB’s rate hike trajectory, but he said policymakers will be examining the data for signs that core inflation is coming down and the bank’s medium-term inflation target of 2% is within sight.

【World Property Journal】Total U.S. Commercial Mortgage Lending Hit $816 Billion in 2022

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's 2022 Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Annual Origination Volume Summation, total commercial real estate mortgage borrowing and lending in the U.S. equaled $816 billion in 2022, which is an 8 percent decrease from the record $891 billion in 2021 and a 33 percent increase from $614 billion in 2020.

【金融監督管理委員會】本國銀行112年2月底辦理中小企業放款情形

  • 金融監督管理委員會(下稱金管會)表示,截至112年2月底止,本國銀行對中小企業放款餘額達新臺幣(以下同)9兆2,685億元,較上月底減少82.54億元。
  • 112年2月底中小企業放款餘額占全體企業放款餘額比率為64.75%,占民營企業放款餘額比率為69.20%,分別較上月底之比率減少0.04及增加0.21個百分點;另112年2月底中小企業放款之平均逾期放款比率為0.26%,與上月底相同。

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