Earnings / Consumer Finance
Synchrony's third-quarter profit falls 17% from a year earlier to $892 million as its credit-loss provision rose 10%
Diluted earnings were $2.68 a share, down from $2.86 a year earlier, even as purchase volume rose 8% to $49.7 billion. It returned $1.2 billion of capital; CET1 fell to 12.9% from 14.3% a year earlier.