Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over the phone so you wouldnt be late but were charged a convenience fee. The only thing that fee is convenient for is the banks bottom line. Or lets say youre looking for an apartment, you find one with affordable rent but when you look at the lease, you realize between the maintenance fee and the trash fee and the mysterious convenience fee, the actual rent youll be char
Extra costs to consumers monthly bills. Live coverage here on cspan. Cspan live here, the Senate Banking Committee Hearing about to get under way. Witnesses will be testifying on how junk fees effect consumers and their budgets. Some examples of those fees are the hidden charges that get attached to goods and services such as loans and Bank Accounts or corporations. Sen. Brown finding more and more ways to raise those costs, to boost their own profits. Weve talked about how every time americans go to a Grocery Store, they pay for corporate stock buybacks and executive bonuses. Last week we looked at how Companies Use the latest technologies to jack up prices for consumers. This week we look at junk fees. Often lastminute charges that drive up the cost of products, have no justification or connection to anything other than their quests for profits. Think about that hotel room you booked that has a bunch of mysterious charges at the end. Or that time you paid your credit card bill over t
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Of ours. Actually 10 00 we are looking up on all the major averages i guess, yeah, looks like we are. European markets, you ask, we answer what are they doing jim . We trade with the good ones now. Whats that we trade with the good ones. All positive. Other than spain 10 year note right around look at that over 58 this morning our road map as well it starts broadly with stocks on track to open higher boeing boosting its dividend shares rising premarket. The plan maker setting a new 18 billion stock buyback plan and a mega mall merger. Buying the World Trade Center mall and new jerseys nearly 16 billion overall. What . We should have 3m just preannounced. Lets get to that too. Remember the other day a fellow was telling you to sort it it was ill advised. You were on him. I was all over him like a cheap kmart suit. Those are cheap. That was my first thing that i wore to goldman. They said get out of that corduroy suit. A day in which the fed will hold its final policy meeting of the year
Alley. Back to you. Thank you very much its 8 00 a. M. At our headquarters in sunnyvale, california, 11 00 on wall street and squawk is live. Were going to start the hour with breaking news on target for that well go to Courtney Reagan back at hq. Hi, court. The same big delivery wars rage on. Target buying personal shopping and Delivery Platform shipt for 550 million. Target says delivery option for shoppers will begin in early 2018 it pulls inventory from stores to deliver same day. By summer it will be available in half of its 1800 stores to start, though, its going to be done through the shipt app and network of personal shoppers personal shoppers are in direct communication with the consumer that places the order for questions and timing updates at least to start, get this, you will need a shipt membership 99 per year for unlimited deliveries on the platform from target and other retailers like costco and kroger. Target says its working on how it might eventually be integrated int