Retailers may add surcharge in credit card transactions By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:31pm EST (Reuters) – Retailers in 40 U.S. states can now charge up to 4 percent extra when consumers pay for goods and services with a credit card. These so-called “checkout fees” went into effect January 27, and do [...]
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HOW ARE THE CONSUMERS ALWAYS THE ONES TO PAY?
MARKET DEFENDED AGAIN AT SUPPORT INTO TOMORROW’S FAKE JOB’S NUMBER
Stripping away all the nonsense and all the blah blah blah, major indices are again holding support into tomorrow’s fake job’s number. All bets are off as it will be the reaction that matters. So…going into tomorrow, the market has been nothing more than a bout of nausea. Foreign markets have been much worse than [...]
03/09/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST
JUST LETTING YOU KNOW… Pay no attention to the Dow today. There’s some good action underneath the surface. Before I get into that, we had an unemployment number. It came in at 8.3, the same as last month’s 8.3, but created around 230,000 jobs. Again, I don’t know where they get these numbers from. If [...]
YUCK!
The market remains in trouble…and in spite of oversold conditions, continues to get rocked. A few more things sticking out for me: The Transports are in imploding mode. Not good. The German DAX continues to implode…not to mention other European markets. The DAX has been a pretty decent leader of moves. Some stronger retail names [...]
