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If shopping for the holidays seems more expensive this year, blame credit card "swipe fees." This is what credit card companies charge stores when you use credit cards — and you can bet that fee gets ...

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan gave the dissenting votes on the swipe-fee decision. The Fed rule came out of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which included a provision ...

Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.

A bill that aims to slightly lower credit card “swipe fees” is moving quickly through the Pennsylvania House. But it faces long odds in the state Senate and has drawn vehement opposition from banks ...