https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/investing/premarket-stocks-trading

What’s happening: Fears of a bank run cause lenders to take fewer risks with their capital reserves to ensure they have enough cash to cover any potential withdrawal requests, said analysts at Pantheon Macroeconomics. That makes them “disinflationary events,” they wrote in a note on Tuesday.

Economic growth could be reduced by as much as half a percentage point in 2023 if small and midsize banks tighten their lending standards. That could have the equivalent effect of the Fed hiking rates by half a point, said Goldman Sachs economists on Tuesday.

That’s because banks with less than $250 billion in assets account for about 50% of US commercial and industrial lending, 60% of residential real estate lending, 80% of commercial real estate lending and 45% of consumer lending, according to Goldman analysts led by chief economist Jan Hatzius.

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, estimated in a note that the banking meltdown could have an even larger effect on the economy, equivalent to a percent-and-a-half rate hike by the Fed.

“In other words, over the past week, monetary conditions have tightened to a degree where the risks of a sharper slowdown in the economy have increased,” he wrote in a note over the weekend.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/20/investing/banking-crisis-credit-suisse-first-republic

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Credit Suisse, hobbled for decades by mismanagement, scandal and bad bets, finally succumbed to the emerging global banking crisis. Its stunning and rapid takeover by rival UBS, orchestrated by Swiss authorities Sunday, took one giant, wobbling domino off the table. Hours later, a group of central banks from around the world boosted the movement of US dollars through the global financial system to keep loans flowing to households and businesses and support the world’s major economies.

The question investors and nervous customers want answered this week: What’s next? Are other banks about to fall – or be saved? Will regulators be forced to step in with more rescue plans?

In the United States, the banking crisis began nearly two weeks ago with the sudden collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank over a three-day span. That sent shockwaves through the global banking system.

Regional banks with similar profiles to SVB, including First Republic Bank (FRC), PacWest (PACW) and Western Alliance (WAL), have teetered on the brink over the past week. Anxious customers have pulled tens of billions of dollars in cash from the smaller banks and placed them with bigger institutions that are better capitalized.

To pay customers their withdrawals, regional banks have scrambled to access enough cash. First Republic received a $70 billion loan from JPMorgan Chase a week ago and another $30 billion lifeline from a consortium of 11 banks, organized by US regulators, on Thursday. That still appears to be insufficient, with First Republic’s shares tumbling another 33% Friday.

https://dcist.com/story/23/03/15/road-closures-rock-n-roll-half-marathon/



The Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon and 5K is set to close a number of roads in downtown D.C. starting Friday evening and into Saturday night.

The race will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday near Constitution Avenue NW and 14th Street SW on the National Mall.

Runners will proceed on a course that loops around the city. This includes going west across the Memorial Bridge, proceeding north all the way to Harvard Street NW, going past the McMillan Reservoir, and then moving south down North Capitol Street NW before ending outside of the U.S. Capitol.

In all, the half marathon will cover just over 13 miles. The 5K will start near the U.S. Capitol, and proceed north to N Street NE before coming back to the Capitol grounds.

Because of these races, D.C. police have announced a slew of road closures with some starting as early as Friday at 6 p.m.