September 2007

Asia market round up: Korean bubbles

In any economic downturn, banks are nearly always the first businesses to suffer, which is why the recent spike in credit growth among Korea’s banks looks alarming.


Since 2004, Korea’s credit to GDP ratio has increased by more than 20%, according to UBS’s economics team, far more than anywhere else in Asia.

Korean banks have a...


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