Since 1995, US equity prices have displayed a remarkable resilience to political impasses in raising the debt ceiling. Dysfunctional fiscal policy can have unintended consequences, such as sovereign debt downgrades.
Elevated levels of bond holdings in the US banking system mean that profligate US fiscal policy could raise issues about the quality of the sovereign backstop.
US banks are still losing deposits to money market funds as banks struggle to adjust to a higher cost of funding environment. Commercial real estate lending has softened since March.