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Though the proportion of Negroes to whites in Viet Nam is higher than the domestic civilian ratio (23% v. 11%), the Pentagon issued no comparative figures on their casualties. Because a great number of Negroes volunteer for the riskier assignments, their losses presumably are relatively higher...
...even faster than consumer credit. New short-term bank loans to business rose from $3.5 billion in 1960 to $10.3 billion in 1964. Long-term corporate bond issues, which usually increase by $5 billion a year, will advance an estimated $8 billion in 1965. One of the newer and riskier forms of business finance is "trade credit"-credits extended by companies directly to their customers, without bank financing. The total of such credit outstanding now tops $100 billion, is expected to rise by $6.8 billion this year...
...Riskier Items. The McClellan hearings are the more embarrassing to bankers because they come just when a debate is heating up over whether U.S. banks have overextended credit. Squeezed between rising interest costs paid to depositors and stable rates on loans to business, banks are shunting more and more money into such high-yielding but riskier items as mortgages and consumer loans; they are also, some critics charge, lowering standards for borrowers. Installment credit extended by commercial banks has more than doubled since 1956, rose another 11% last year to $24 billion...
...year than any other form of investment. Mortgage costs are falling too. New home mortgages in November carried an average interest of 5.75% v. 5.82% a year earlier. While banks can and will switch part of the new flood of savings into other kinds of loans-some of them riskier than usual-S. & L.s are far more locked into the mortgage field. Says Eugene M. Mortlock. president of Manhattan's First Federal Savings & Loan: "We can't invest any more money than we have...
...high hopes for a bill, now being considered in the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, that would permit foreign insurers to operate more freely. In any case, Lloyd's is not really worried about the future. It believes that, year after year, the world is becoming a riskier place...