Bank of America Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it is eliminating $35 overdraft fees on debit-card purchases as the bank tries to stay ahead of a sweeping round of regulations. The move means that any customer who attempts a purchase with insufficient funds will be denied at the point of [ Read More → ]

Maybe LifeLock made one too many pitches. The Arizona company, known for its blustery cofounder who used to publish his own Social Security number in ads for identity-theft protection, sent a letter a year ago to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. “WARNING,” it said, “if you have used a credit or debit [ Read More → ]

Photo: ALAMY Some of these offers involve special discount voucher codes that you need to enter on the online shopping site; others are simply great online prices. DISCOUNT VOUCHERS Interflora 12pc off UK orders over £25 (ends March 12), Buyagift 13pc off orders (ends March 14), … Read the original article at [ Read More → ]

Nasdaq 10 years on: how the tech sector went from boom to bust Photo: REUTERS A decade ago the technology bubble was about to burst, having reached a peak on March 10. The golden goose that had been so hyped up by everyone from independent financial advisers to first-time investors [ Read More → ]

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s latest operating system Photo: Getty “The technology sector is no different to the automobile sector, or the newspaper industry – or gold mining,” said Ben Rogoff, the manager of Polar Capital’s Technology trust. “When the gold rush first started, hundreds set off with their pickaxes for [ Read More → ]

A truck pulls out of Troutdale’s Flying J Travel Plaza toward Interstate 84 east. Oregon trucking activity increased in January as a firming economy and efforts to hike inventories boosted shipping, according to economic data released Wednesday. An Oregon economic gauge rose more than 1 percent in January for the [ Read More → ]

The Associated PressFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke needed White House intervention to survive a grueling Senate confirmation for a second term.WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, still dusting itself off from a fight that threatened to trim its powers, could emerge from a congressional overhaul of banking rules as the top [ Read More → ]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — said Monday that it will sell its American Life Insurance Co. division for $15.5 billion to The government-approved deal, AIG’s second big asset sale in two weeks, will give the insurer more cash to repay the billions of bailout dollars it still owes the government. The [ Read More → ]

Figures published by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) have revealed a sharp fall in the deficit of the UK’s defined benefit pension schemes. According to the PPF, the deficit was trimmed to £15.1 billion at the end of February from £51.9 billion at the end of January. It is also a significant [ Read More → ]

Bank of America Corp. plans to announce Wednesday that it is eliminating $35 overdraft fees on debit-card purchases as the bank tries to stay ahead of a sweeping round of regulations. The move means that any customer who attempts a purchase with insufficient funds will be denied at the point of [ Read More → ]