Sunday, November 29, 2009

Get Ready for Half a Recovery

Small businesses are still finding it difficult to get credit and the jobless rate will continue to be high for at least a year. Read this report.

6 comments:

  1. The report is on US. Not applicable to Singapore.


    Rgds

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  2. My friend, who runs a small business, told me that he finds it difficult to get bank credit in Singapore. I think that the problem is world wide.

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  3. "The report is on US. Not applicable to Singapore".

    The assumption of such statement is decouple theory !

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  4. I thought interest rates are very low is because banks are flushed with deposits and there are not many borrowers.

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  5. tkl, your friend must be char kway teow guy..no loan from the bank does not mean no recovery...bcuase your friend is just a number...no business, then close down..talk so much if not happy, then work or if not, then borrow money from u afterall u are so good to give advice to pple so do it, dot talk only.

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  6. Decoupling! Yes!.. in this respect, we are not connected... not to US sub-prime, not to Dubai... but our exports markets,( we are told ) are the US and now the Middle East!

    Interest rates for deposits = 0.25%
    Interest rates for loans = 6.50%

    The spread is wider than products in Geylang.

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