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Vol. 11 No. 36 Des Moines, iowa Decem ber 27,1982 1983 Outlook for Commercial Loans Each year the president o f Robert Morris Associates, the 69-year old association of more than 10,000 com mercial loan and credit officers, pre pares an Outlook for Commercial and Industrial Loans for the coming year. The 1982-83 RM A president, Douglas W. Dodge, has prepared the following summary. He is executive vice president of the $660 million asset Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Baltimore, M d businesses to take on additional debt to expand their stocks. Similarly, capacity utilization in the nation’s factories is touching the cyclical lows experienced in the midseventies, and, in some cases, util ization is below the previous cyclical bottom. In addition, and for a varie ty of reasons, off-shore lending has softened as a result of perceived credit problems and concern about the ability of many borrowers to ser ROM this vantage point in the vice what, in many cases, has be fourth quarter of 1982, it ap come rapid accumulations of exter pears that any growth in commecial nal debt. Short-Term Outlook Weak and industrial loans during 1983 will be gradual and will probably pro For all of these reasons, the short ceed at a pace slower than the term outlook for business credit de growth of the general economy. mands appears to be weak. A rever Business ac sal of this trend will have to await a cumulation of in more promising economic outlook ventories peaked which should emerge sometime dur in the third quar ing the year. ter of 1981 and A number of structural factors are showed minus at work which will affect both the numbers in the demand for bank credit and the first and second ability of banks to meet credit quarters of 1982. needs. Probably the most important Recent data sug is desire of corporations to reliquify gests that this their balance sheets through the sale D.W. DODGE declining trend of long-term obligations to fund a has continued. As businesses reduce heavy burden of short-term credit, inventories in reaction to recession both in the banking system and in conditions, debt is retired. More im the commercial paper markets. portantly, the outlook for resump The ravages of high rates of infla tion of inventory accumulation will tion, bond market rigidities, and the have to wait for the emergence of resulting high interest rates have real demand to induce the nation’s caused the financial structure of F t t American industry to deteriorate rather badly. We are presently going through a period where creditwor thy borrowers are funding their short-term credit, and this process still has a long way to go. While in terest rates in the longer term market have come down somewhat, they are still substantially above historic highs, and the real rate of in terest is discouraging many borrow ers from completing funding oper ations. Should rates continue to decline, this process of restoring financial health should lay the groundwork for economic recovery and, in turn, an increase in the demand for bank credit. As this process goes forward, banks should be able to continue to improve their own liquidity and, therefore, establish a foundation for growth in loans in the future. Consumers Will Lead An additional factor which holds promise for the future is the increased rate of savings by consumers which creates the capital pools necessary to accommodate business loan de mand. The combination of higher rates of personal savings and the working through of legislated tax cuts holds promise for the ability of the economy to generate increasing demands for goods and services. In planning loan growth for 1983, it seems to me that commercial banks need to await the emergence of demand for goods and services which will be translated into a rever- CALL ON THE “PERFORM ANCE TEAM ” where common transactions are handled uncommonly well. FIRST NATIONAL LINCOLN 13th & M S tre e t https://fraser.stlouisfed.org Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis L in c o ln , N e b ra s k a 68501 • M e m b e r, F.D.I.C. 2 T eam w ork: O ne of the reasons we’re first in Iowa. Gariy Frandson Happy New Year to Our Banking Friends M alcolm Freeland, Pres. Anna Belle S h eets Investm ent S erv ices FREELAND FINANCIAL SERVICE An Affiliate of Northwest Bancorporation DANC u ^ Member FDIC sal of the decline and then an in crease in the level of business inven tories. While much of this increase can be expected to be accommodat ed in the commercial paper market, at least some of it should be met through accommodations at com mercial banks. Once this process has begun and capacity utilization re vives, there should be good pro spects for a gradual increase in termcredit demand to finance the expan sion of plant and equipment capacity. And, in the process, an additional hopeful sign should emerge. In re cent years, substantial tax induce ments to business capital formation have been enacted. Because of soft economic conditions, we have yet to see the full potential of these tax benefits in the form of increased ASK JERRY TRUDO to make MNB work for you. Toll free 1- 800- 332-5991 Merchants A National Bank 151 M e m b e r F.D.I.C. A 'B A N K S O F IO W A ’ BANK Call (515) 245-3131 or toll-free (800) 362-2514 capital spending plans on the part of American industry. No discussion of the outlook for loan demand would be complete without a word about the effects of fiscal and monetary policy on the economy. Continued massive federal deficits with the attendant stim ulative effect on both the economy and the price level will pose chal lenges to national economic policy as they have for the last several years. Monetary policy has carried al most alone the burden of reducing inflation, and a continuation of this discipline is very much in order. 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