Main Street Banking Model Is Being Squeezed

Main Street Banking Model Is Being Squeezed·The Wall Street Journal
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Higher-for-longer interest rates are continuing to weigh on Main Street banks. Regional banks posted steep profit declines in the first quarter and predicted more pain ahead. The results underscore the uneven toll that two years of higher interest rates have taken on regional banks, which tend to have plain-vanilla businesses taking in deposits and making loans.

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