This hearing is one hour 40 minutes. 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 convenien
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
Federal employees. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor jon lands, Fellowship Baptist Church, vienna, west virginia. The chaplain lord god, i thank you for your hand of providence that has guided our nation and protected us over these past 241 years. Were thankful for those who have gone before us and paid the price for our freedom from tyranny. In recognizing your blessing in our history, we now ask for your continued favor and grace. We ask that youll protect those who even now place themselves in harms way to preserve the liberty of our land. I especially thank you for these dedicated men and women who gather today to do our nations business. We pray for all in authority, that we may live in peace. We ask you to lead this congress, to follow your instruction given to the prophet mica. To do justly. To love mercy. And to walk humbly with you. These things we pray in jesus name. Amep. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined
The success . Would you buy a 1000 iphone . Look at last nights news from apple and ask if it is justifying the stocks 40 rise this year. Matt we are less than half an hour away from the start of cash trading, take a look at where futures are indicating, they will go down as the indication we see. S p futures indicating down. Asian markets were down. We see gains in currencies, never a good sign for long equities trade area take a look at the bund trade. We are unch on the bund. College 0. 4 if you want to round up a little bit. Wantl it. 4 if you to round up a little bit. We had talked about a. 6 target. British pound as you were mentioning, the british pound is dead and we get wage data out at 9 30 a. M. Yesterday we had this higherthanexpected cpi, Pay Attention to what is happening with the british pound. European stocks are well bid yesterday and it will the interesting to see if that carries on. Probably the early indications are we are not going to be seeing that happening. Lets