Capital One Venture X Rewards and Venture X Business cards set to lose Plaza Premium lounge access – The Points Guy
The Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card and Capital One Venture X Business are two of the issuer's premium travel rewards cards with lounge access. Unfortunately, starting March 1, cardholders will no longer have access to Plaza Premium Lounges, a network of more than 250 independently owned lounges around the world. However, not all […]
California Highway Patrol gets in some monkey business during routine stop
A routine traffic stop took an unusual turn Monday when California Highway Patrol officers stopped a Rolls-Royce in Madera County. Authorities stopped a 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost on Highway 99 for speeding and were surprised to find a spider monkey inside. The CHP noted that the discovery of an exotic animal inside an exotic car made […]
More than 400 pubs closed in England and Wales in the last year; Mexico faces 500m-litre tequila lake – business live | Business
Introduction: The number of pubs in England and Wales has fallen below 39,000 this year. good morning. Welcome to our regular coverage of business, financial markets and the global economy. The number of pubs has fallen again in England and Wales as the trend towards the disappearance of social housing from local communities accelerates in […]
Barclays under fire for sacking 15 Wall Street bankers, cancelling bonuses before holidays | Company Business News – Mint
Weeks before the holiday season, Barclays laid off 15 New York-based bankers and traders and 35 other employees without annual bonuses. The measure has sparked a backlash and raised potential legal issues. The Times of India reports that the UK-based bank's job cuts have left affected professionals upset as they miss out on year-end bonuses, […]
Joe Biden poses with Hunter’s Chinese business associates in newly surfaced photos: ‘Incredibly damning’
President Biden appears in a newly discovered photo of him meeting with Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates in China while he was vice president, and says he has “never discussed business with his son.” His assertion that there is no such thing is now under further scrutiny. The photos, obtained by conservative America First Legal […]
DOGE doubles down on eliminating the government agency that's cracking down on overdraft fees – Business Insider
Vivek Ramaswamy further reinforced DOGE's demand for the abolition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He wrote to X that the CFPB overstepped its authority with recent rules limiting overdraft fees. The CFPB's rules aim to cap, rather than eliminate, bank overdraft fees, saving consumers billions of dollars. Vivek Ramaswamy points to the agency's latest […]
IRS to send unclaimed tax rebates to 1M Americans – Fox Business
Claman Countdown panelists Peter Schiff and Andy Brenner unpack the market's reaction to the Federal Reserve. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced plans to provide automatic payments to eligible taxpayers who did not claim the Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns. IRS officials announced the move on Dec. 20, saying payments would be […]
US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund | Business
U.S. business leaders are pouring billions into President Donald Trump's second inaugural fund, which is expected to surpass the record $107 million raised in 2017. . The donations, which are not subject to campaign finance laws, come as industry and business leaders seek to drum up support for the next president after he decisively won […]
Big banks, business groups sue Fed over ‘opaque’ annual stress tests
Major banks and business groups sued the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, alleging that the central bank's annual “stress tests” on Wall Street companies violate the law. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, alleges that the Fed's practice of determining large banks' performance against anticipated economic disruptions and assigning capital requirements accordingly […]
Bronx’s ‘The Hub’ is drug-riddled business as usual after Post exposes junkie wasteland
Some habits are difficult to break. The Hub in the Bronx was business as usual, drug-filled, the day after the Post's exposé about the legions of drug addicts and debauchery that preyed on commercial streets. When The Post returned to the scene on Monday, addicts openly mixed opioids and injected them into their arms and […]