BLOOMBERG  ING Groep NV plans to buy back as much as €1.5 billion ($1.65 billion) worth of stock after higher interest rates helped lift profit past analysts’ expectations. Shares of the lender rose, after first-quarter results showed interest income and provisions for loan losses came in better than analysts had expected. Net income more than tripled from a year earlier, ...

BLOOMBERG  US consumer borrowing increased in March by more than expected on one of the largest spikes in credit-card balances on record. Total credit increased $26.5 billion, the most in four months, after a February gain of $15 billion, Federal Reserve data showed. The figure, which isn’t adjusted for inflation, compared with the median estimate of a $17 billion increase ...

BLOOMBERG US equity futures ticked higher and European stocks rose as more investors said the Federal Reserve is likely to pause interest-rate hikes on the back of cooling inflation data. Contracts on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 advanced by about 0.3%. In US premarket trading, Walt Disney Co dropped after predicting a wider loss for its streaming service ...