Bloomberg British consumers are reining in unnecessary purchases after a leap in energy prices ate into their discretionary spending, forcing people to cut back on new clothes, evenings out and lunches out. Barclaycard, which manages about half of the nation’s credit and debit card transactions, said outlays on non-essential items in rose 1% from a year ago in September, …

  Bloomberg Johnson & Johnson (J&J) reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates as revenue grew in its drugs and medical-device businesses despite pressure from the stronger dollar. The diversified health-care company, which is in the process of separating out its consumer division, reported sales results that were roughly in line with Wall Street’s estimates for the pharmaceutical and medical-device …

  Bloomberg A surge in bad loans awaits UK banks as higher interest rates saddle homeowners with an estimated £52 billion ($58.6 billion) of added mortgage payments over the next three years, an analyst warned as he downgraded his ratings on several lenders. The jump in costs will help push the personal debt service burden towards about 10% of post-tax …

Bloomberg Japan’s benchmark yield climbed above the central bank’s policy ceiling and monetary authorities announced unscheduled bond purchases to rein it back in. The yield on the 10-year note briefly rises 0.5 basis points to 0.255% as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) held the first unscheduled bond buying operation this month. Global yields have continued to march higher as traders …

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank hardened its wording around its currency interventions, saying it would look to “control” the rupiah with the dollar expected to stay strong in the coming months. “What we will continue to do is to control the exchange rate,” Bank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo said after the policy rate decision. “We don’t want the strengthening dollar …

  Bloomberg US banks seem to be having a Goldilocks moment with their credit card portfolios. Spending is up — partly due to inflation and partly due to the fact consumers are embracing travel and dining out as the pandemic recedes — and that means fees they collect from merchants each time a customer swipes their cards are also up. …

Bloomberg ING Bank NV subsidiary Payvision is under investigation for violating anti-money laundering regulations. The probe is related to actions dating from the period before ING bought Payvision, the bank said in a statement in response to a report by Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad. ING said it is aware of the Payvision probe but is not itself a subject of …

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) appointed a new deputy governor, ahead of a possible reshuffle of economic leadership during the Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress. Xuan Changneng, 55, whose most recent role was deputy head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, was appointed as the PBOC’s sixth deputy governor, according to a statement on the central bank’s website. …

  Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA was told by French judges it shouldn’t have excluded bonuses from its calculations to close the gender pay gap, in a ruling that’s likely to have ramifications for the local banking industry. A Paris court criticised BNP for only using women’s base salary as a comparison with the median for men in the same jobs, …

  Bloomberg First came Snap Inc.’s disappointing results. Then news that US officials were discussing whether they should subject some of Elon Musk’s ventures to national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter Inc. Anxious investors are selling out of social media stocks, putting them on track to lose more than $47 billion in market value as they tumble in …