{"id":574835,"date":"2026-07-30T04:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:00:12","slug":"card-spending-climbs-over-7-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574835\/","title":{"rendered":"Card spending climbs over 7% in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f40fa65e-c487-4728-bcc7-dabf22aad0ae.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"gettyimagesbank\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Credit card spending rose by more than 7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier due to the wealth effect stemming from a bull run on the local stock market and sound corporate earnings, data showed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Spending made with credit, debit and prepaid cards came to 336.9 trillion won ($230 billion) in the April-July period, up 7.6 percent from the same period last year, according to the data compiled by the Credit Finance Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The number of approved card settlements climbed 6 percent on-year to 7.96 billion cases over the cited period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Also, an overall rise in prices of commodities contributed to a rise in card spending, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Spending with corporate cards rose 8.7 percent on-year to 63.4 trillion won, and that by individuals went up 7.4 percent to 273.7 trillion won over the cited period, according to the latest data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit card spending rose by more than 7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-574835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}