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Euro-Area Lending Contracts

May loans down 0.1%, in the first decline in more than two years.

By Jeff Black, Bloomberg | Updated on June 29, 2012

Lending to households and companies in the 17-nation euro area contracted for the first time in more than two years in May as the sovereign debt crisis curbed demand for credit.

Loans to the private sector declined 0.1 percent from a year earlier after gaining an annual 0.2 percent in April, the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank said today. That’s the first contraction since March 2010. From April, loans fell 0.1 percent for their fourth straight monthly drop.

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