The Chase e-commerce website, chase.com, is shut down completely again “Due to scheduled system maintenance out site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later”–www.chase.com. After a short period when the site was available earlier…
The Chase.com website is still down off-and-on, probably due to a huge influx of traffic created by the demand of customers who want access to their accounts after a one-day outage of the bank’s…
The Mortgage Bankers Association released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending September 10, 2010. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, decreased 8.9% on a seasonally adjusted…
In new ads recently posted on YouTube which may make it to TV, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has savaged the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad based both on price and the trouble users have seeing its…
Customer satisfaction among travelers who fly on low-cost carriers is substantially higher than for people who use traditional airlines. JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU) tops a recent evaluation of service among carriers and US Airways (NYSE:…
The Obama Administration has hoped to avoid an attempt by Congress to seize the ability to negotiate with China on the value of the yuan. It has almost always been the province of the…
Many investors in sovereign debt and euro zone nations which put up hundreds of billions of dollars are anxious to see if Greek moves toward default on its national paper. A number of investment…
Reuters: Japan intervened to cap the yen for the first time in six years. Reuters: Business sentiment in Asia slipped for the third quarter period. Reuters: Gold remained near a record high. Reuters: A…
Many smartphone owners download apps but do not use them, like the car buyer who asks for adjustable sets but never uses the settings. The Pew Internet Project says that 35% of Americans who…
WPP Plc. (WPP:LN) Chief Executive Martin Sorrell has mastered the art of telling people what they want to hear. Last month, the head of the world’s largest advertising firm spooked investors when he spoke…
American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) didn’t think its plan to escape from Uncle Sam’s clutches all the way through. According to the Wall Street Journal, ” … the Treasury Department is likely to convert…
Confidence in the economy in the early part of September was down from the previous two months and collapsed compared to to the same period last year. “Although economic confidence in the U.S. appeared…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
Updated throughout the day. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) has a plan to reduce government ownership of the insurance company (WSJ) Obama may be about to appoint Elizabeth Warren as head of the consumer…
Now that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has said it will stop giving people a little rubber case to improve reception of the iPhone 4, Consumer Reports is back in the market with a savage…
Investors, worried about market volatility, no longer view the purchase and sales of stocks as an even playing field, and are acting accordingly. Events like the “flash crash” have made them unusually nervous. A…
Toyota Motor (NYSE: TM) will launch six new hybrids over the next two years to sit in showrooms with its highly popular Prius. Hybrid sales are modest, making up 15,444 vehicles of the company’s…
Reuters: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is at work on a plan to repay its government aid. Reuters: The yen hit a new 15-year high. Reuters: Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) new Halo game hopes to…
Many of the 100 most valuable brands from 2001, lost much of their value between then and 2009. Many of these brand declines are predictable, given the fate of their sectors. Car companies such…
Several prominent economist who have apparently been slumbering the last three years suddenly awoke this week and, upon an examination of the global financial situation, said that unemployment was the primary enemy of the…