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Wall Street Breakfast

Credit card debt hits new record

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Credit card debt hits new record, delinquencies rise most among millennials. (00:23) CarGurus (CARG) to fully acquire online car dealership CarOffer for $75M. (01:27) Virgin Galactic (SPCE) cuts jobs to support Delta spaceship production. (02:04)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:07.0

Good morning. Today is Wednesday, November 8th. I'm Julie Morgan.

0:11.0

Credit cart delinquencies rise most among millennials.

0:15.4

Car Guru's acquires car offer and Virgin Galactic is making room to focus on Delta.

0:22.0

More people are using credit cards. making room to focus on Delta.

0:23.0

More people are using credit cards just to get by.

0:26.6

Americans credit card debt swelled to a record 1.08 trillion dollars in Q3,

0:32.4

up 154 billion dollars from Q3 of 2022.

0:37.0

This marks the largest increase since the New York Fed

0:40.0

began tracking household debt in 1999.

0:43.4

Total delinquency rates rose in Q3,

0:45.9

with 3% of outstanding debt

0:48.2

in some stage of delinquency at the end of September.

0:51.8

Delinquency rates increase the sharpest for

0:54.4

millennials age 30 to 39 while credit card delinquencies have surpassed pre-pendemic

1:00.2

levels. An economic research advisor at the New York Fed said the continued rise in credit card

1:06.0

delinquency rates is broad-based across area, income, and region, but particularly pronounced among millennials in those with auto loans or student loans.

1:17.0

Researchers caution that since the labor market and the economy have remained resilient,

1:22.0

pinning down the causes of rising delinquency rates is more difficult.

1:27.0

Car gurus on Tuesday said it would fully acquire online car dealership car offer

1:33.2

for $75 million in an all-cash deal.

1:36.7

C-A-R-G had initially acquired a 51% stake in car offer

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