Interest rates

Banks are starting to have a tougher time obtaining funds in the financial system as the Federal Reserve shrinks its balance sheet and hikes interest rates, leaving analysts searching for any signs that the strains are approaching the magnitude of past credit crunches.

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The Federal Reserve's campaign to tighten financial conditions has resulted in notably increased borrowing by U.S. banks at the central bank's discount window, normally a last-resort funding source.

Wells Fargo cut hundreds more mortgage employees Thursday, the latest in a series of reductions across the industry after higher interest rates brought the pandemic-era home-lending boom to halt.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce posted earnings that missed analysts' estimates as the lender failed to benefit from rising interest rates.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is making the most of rising interest rates, with widening lending margins lifting results.

Canada's banks are expected to post their second straight quarter of declining earnings as the darkening economic outlook slows loan growth and prompts them to stockpile capital, outweighing the benefit of wider lending margins.

Federal Reserve officials at their meeting earlier this month concluded it would soon be appropriate to slow the pace of rate increases, signaling the central bank was leaning toward downshifting to a 50-basis-point hike in December.

Our current high inflation rates and the recession that is probably facing the economy in 2023 have the fingerprints of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell all over them.

A former Deutsche Bank trader cleared of charges that he rigged the Libor benchmark rate has sued the bank for malicious prosecution, saying the company made false and misleading statements to get him prosecuted in the U.S.