May 2009
BUSINESS BUYER TIP
Small-Business Credit Sees Thaw
By Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal
Many small-business lenders are seeing signs of a thaw in the secondary market for loans backed by the Small Business Administration.
That is spurring more lenders to originate new loans -- and more small companies to apply for them.
In February, the latest month for which figures are available, 35% of newly approved 7(a) loans, the most popular SBA loan program, sold on the secondary market, according to the Government Accounting Office. That was up from 24% in January. From September 2007 to September 2008, before the credit crunch, 45% of approved 7(a) loans sold on the secondary market...<continue article>
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