CIBC and other banks grossly oversold?
CIBC CEO Victor Dodig today said that CIBC's oil and gas loan exposure is only $5.2 B, or 2 % of its total loans, and that even if the price of oil were to remain at $40 for two years hence that the bank's energy exposure and loan losses would be manageable. He fully expects energy companies that have loans with the bank to sacrifice capital expenditures or dividends in order to continue to meet their payments.
Obviously low oil affects other businesses to which the banks have loans, some for the worse and some for the better, but is the steep decline in SP we have witnessed justified by the facts?