Barclays Bank of California announced that it...

Barclays Bank of California announced that it has purchased the MasterCard portfolio of Central Bank, Walnut Creek, Calif., consisting of 26,000 cardholders, for undisclosed terms . . . The Federal Reserve reported that the average yield for one-year T-bills, the most popular index for making changes in adjustable rate home mortgages, fell to 5.80% last week after averaging 5.97% the week before.