Commercial Banking: Lending to Troubled Sectors

GGD-88-126BR Published: Sep 26, 1988. Publicly Released: Sep 26, 1988.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined the extent to which commercial banks made loans to five troubled economic sectors to determine the significance of the banks' exposures to loan default or repayment problem risks.

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