In September, Bank of America announced it would soon begin charging customers a $5 monthly fee for using their debit cards, saying it was recouping losses from new laws that limited how much it could charge merchants when debit cards were swiped during transactions.
But after a firestorm of negative publicity, BofA waved the white flag of surrender and scrapped the controversial plan.
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While many in the US are feeling the pinch of the recession, others are enjoying unprecedented boom times.
So says Phoenix Marketing International, which just released its annual roundup of the states with the most millionaires and found that for the second year in a row, the overall number of millionaire households in the US actually went up.
The Wichita Falls Police Department reports a rise in the usage of counterfeit currency in the Wichita Falls area for the last few weeks.
Sgt. Todd Myracle of the Wichita Falls Police Department Financial Crimes Unit says that he is seeing about 1-2 cases of fake bills being reported each week, and expects to see the number of reported cases rise over the weeks to come
If you think your cell phone bill is high, you haven’t met Celina Aarons.
The Florida woman added a cell phone to her account for her mute and hearing-impaired brother, who didn’t know to turn off his data roaming when he was recently in Canada. Since his only form of communication with the phone is via text messages, those international data rates added up quickly — to the tune of over $200,000 in one month.
In response to Bank of America’s recently announced $5 monthly fee for debit card usage, Florida-based Community Bank is doing the reverse — it’s paying customers to bank with them.
99 Cents Only Stores Inc. said Tuesday it had agreed to a $1.6 billion buyout from Los Angeles private equity firm Ares Management and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The chain, founded in 1982, operates 289 stores in California, Texas, Arizona and Nevada, and was a pioneer of the single-price retail concept. Such low-priced stores have become increasingly popular with consumers in the years since the economy began to falter.
