Euro Area Credit Growth & Credit Impulse API

How fast bank lending to the real economy is expanding, and whether it is accelerating or slowing, read live from the European Central Bank's public Data Portal — no key, nothing stored. Where bank rates are the price of credit, this is the quantity: the annual growth of the loans euro-area banks (MFIs) actually extend to households — total, for house purchase, and for consumption — and to non-financial corporations (businesses). Credit growth is one of the most-watched macro signals because credit booms and busts lead the business cycle and, with a lag, inflation. The growth endpoint returns the latest annual growth rate of each lending category with its reference month and month-on-month change. The impulse endpoint returns the credit impulse — the change in the growth rate over the last six and twelve months — a leading read on whether the credit cycle is turning up (acceleration) or rolling over (deceleration). The series endpoint returns the recent monthly history of any one indicator. This is the euro-area credit-cycle / lending-volume macro cut — distinct from the bank-rate (price of credit), money-supply, policy-rate, yield-curve and FX APIs in the catalogue. All series are euro-area (U2), monthly, annual-growth percent.