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WSJ Your Money Briefing

Why It Keeps Getting More Expensive to Carry a Credit-Card Balance

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The average credit-card interest rate was 21.5% in May, hovering around its highest level in Federal Reserve data going back to 1994. Wall Street Journal reporter Angel Au-Yeung joins host J.R. Whalen to also discuss why the rates remain so high and the status of a proposed $8 cap on credit-card late fees. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your money briefing for Friday October 11th. I'm J. R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.0

The Federal Reserve is expected to continue lowering interest rates in the coming months,

0:47.0

but that isn't likely to translate to relief for people carrying a credit card balance.

0:52.0

Earlier this year, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized an $8 late fee cap on credit card fees.

1:01.0

In response to this late fee cap, credit card issuers and banks have said that they've

1:07.6

imposed quote unquote mitigating actions to get ahead of the revenue that would be lost.

1:13.0

We'll talk to Wall Street Journal reporter Angel Al Young,

1:17.0

after the break. The cost to carry a credit card balance is the highest it's been in a generation.

1:36.0

Wall Street Journal reporter Angel Al Young joins me.

1:40.0

Angel, what's the average rate for credit card customers who are carrying a balance?

1:44.5

So according to the Federal Reserve, the average credit card rate, as of May of this year, was

1:50.3

around 21.5%, which is around the highest level ever recorded in the Fed data

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