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Bank of America's Lewis Sees U.S. `Drowning in Debt' (Update2) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis , who heads the biggest U.S. retail bank, said the nation is ``drowning in debt'' and that both lenders and borrowers are responsible.
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Market spiral takes BofA stock with it (The Charlotte Observer)
Shares of Bank of America Corp. closed at $11.25 on another brutal day for the broader markets, and the Charlotte bank's stock is now down by more than half in less than three weeks. Bank of America, generally regarded as one of the stalwarts in the current banking crisis, has watched its shares slide 54 percent since Nov. 4, to levels not seen since the mid-‘90s. Analysts said Bank of ...
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Market spiral takes BofA stock with it (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Christina Rexrode, crexrode@charlotteobserver.com) Shares of Bank of America Corp. closed at $11.25 on another brutal day for the broader markets, and the Charlotte bank's stock is now down by more than half in less than three weeks. Bank of America, generally regarded as one of the stalwarts in the current banking crisis, has watched its shares slide 54 percent since Nov. 4, to levels ...
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Bank of America's Lewis Says Merrill Deal `On Track' (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis said he will complete the takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. by the end the year, defying skeptics who speculate the economic slump will undo his $19 billion purchase.
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Sallie Mae makes its Del. move official (The News Journal)
Sallie Mae, the largest student lender in the U.S., will locate a new Credit Operations Center in Stanton, bringing 1,100 jobs to the state by 2011, company officials said Thursday.
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Why banks are boosting credit card interest rates and fees (USA Today)
In recent years, banks have sharply raised interest rates and penalty fees on credit cards. As the economy tanks and banks' mortgage-related losses balloon, some banks are stepping up such increases to boost revenue. Bearing the brunt are consumers for whom a jump in rates and fees can make it tougher to pay their bills at a time when household budgets already are being stretched.
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BofA sticks to year-end takeover timetable (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Alex Ortolani and David Mildenberg, Bloomberg News) Bank of America Chief Executive Officer Ken Lewis said he will complete the takeover of Merrill Lynch by the end the year, defying skeptics who speculate the economic slump will undo his $19 billion purchase. The acquisition is “on track,” Lewis, 61, told reporters after a speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday. Bank of America, ...
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Cawley presents Presidential Lecture on Entrepreneurship (The Delaware Business Ledger)
Charles Cawley, who built MBNA Corp. from a shoestring operation into the nation's largest independent credit card company in just 21 years, told a University of Delaware audience Thursday, Nov. 6, that the term entrepreneur “is far broader and much more important” than commonly thought.
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High Growth Forecasted for the World Payment Cards Market Brief (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK----Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Credit Cards industry is available in its catalogue.
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Why Banks Are Raising Credit Card Rates (13 WMAZ Macon)
Tommy Newsom was shocked when his bank nearly doubled his credit card interest rate this year, to 27%, for no apparent reason. A customer rep told him the law allowed the bank to do so, and that was all the justification it needed.
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