Credit card delinquencies and balances fall 2Q

Transunion reports:

TransUnion’s quarterly analysis of trends in the credit card industry revealed that the national credit card delinquency rate (the ratio of bankcard borrowers 90 days or more delinquent on one or more of their credit cards) decreased to 0.92 percent in the second quarter of 2010, down 17.1 percent over the previous quarter. Year over year, credit card delinquencies fell by 21.3 percent.
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Average credit card borrower debt (defined as the aggregate balance on all bank-issued credit cards for an individual bankcard borrower) again drifted downward for the fifth consecutive quarter nationally by 4.1 percent to $4,951 from the previous quarter’s $5,165, and down 13.4 percent compared to the second quarter of 2009 ($5,719). This represented the first period credit card debt was below $5,000 since the first quarter of 2002.
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On a year-over-year basis, national credit card originations dropped almost 6.5 percent.

There was no mention of how writedowns of bad debt may have affected the numbers as part of savings. State by state and city and not city areas varied widely in numbers, as well as regions of the US.