Pending credit card transactions are somewhat of a gray area — they can appear on your statement and temporarily reduce your available credit, but they’re not added to the balance. It’s possible to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pending transaction is a charge that shows up on your credit card statement but hasn’t been reduced from your balance yet.