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September. gridlock over the debt ceiling, looming government shutdown, the fed aggressive fighting inflation which could mean higher interest rates sooner. >> whats in your wallet? >> well, jennifer garner more money in your wallet for one thing. getting an overdraft and non-sufficient fund fees making it the first top ten banks to ditch those fees. and their overdraft protection remains free to transfer money from a savings to checking or free one-day grace period or you could have the bank au...

10,000 baby boomers retire every day. they dont call themselves unemployed. without that that number would be a lot higher. were adding about 192,000 jobs in this period. that makes us consistent about 200 k. people like that if the recovery were operating on all figures. african-americans and the long-term unemployed represent a lot of people. theyve been unemployed for seven months or more. >> the bank balancing act. costlier. >> it is. its tough to be a bank. people have a visceral reaction. ...

In overdraft fees, it may be worth it. a lot of personal finance experts say turn off the overdraft protection and then your card doesnt overdraft when you take it out. interesting product from bank of america. a growing mystery this morning surrounding the identity of the creator of bitcoin. "newsweek" just published a piece about natoshi nakamoto, the man considered the founder of the digital currency and thats created a frenzy. yesterday, im not kidding, there was a car chase through the st...

Time of crisis but theyre not giving a bailout bank fees, no question. >> bank fees are high. are they going to go higher. >> yes. i think you are in trouble if you have overdraft protection. if you dont have enough money in the bank and you go buy something -- i think they can keep charging fees, which is why record numbers of people are going to credit unions or using technology, finding online banks or shopping for banks that have the lowest fees. you can do that. i encourage people, do direc...

4.50. check out credit unions. make sure you are using the bank in your network when youre getting an atm fee. link your checking and savings account so you can very quickly -- look at the technology. you could move a hundred bucks over and avoid an overdraft charge. turn off overdraft protection. that means if you go and use your debit card or credit card, boom, you dont have enough money in the bank, youll pay 35 buc bucks, 40 bucks just like that. >> balance your checkbook. be responsible. yo...

Costs or having your account closed involuntarily. al wl alison kosik, i thought this was supposed to protect you. >> it never ends. what happened was the consumer financial protection burrow put together a report, this group was created in 2010 to be a voice for every day people. and what they found out is that checking account customers are racking up hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees each year. they total about $225 on average. and boonks have been required to automatically opt customers ...

Wide variations in how much people are paying for overdrafts and the kind of people signing up for overdraft protection most likely to have all kinds of extra fees, be careful, the government is watching. >> dont get caught. coming up, was it a crime of passion? were finding out who are about what authorities say a houston doctor tried to do to her lover. [ male announcer ] its intuitive and customizable, just like a tablet. so easy to use, it won a best of ces award from cnet. and it comes in...

Jackie, good morning. >> good morning, mara. futures lower this morning after stocks failed to hold on to some early gains on monday. the markets got an initial pop after s&p upgraded its outlook on the u.s.s credit rating, saying that it feels better about economic prospects, but that optimism proved short-lived. me meantime, americans say now is a better time to sell a home than any period in the last three years. fannie mae says a rise in confidence could lead to more sellers and eventually...

their boat tipping over after it ran aground off of one of italys islands. this is not how youre supposed to see the sunset from a cruise ship. look at those pictures. they are unbelievable. three people are dead. among more than 4,000 who were onboard that ship, and here is what authorities are saying. they say 43 to 70 people could still be missing. an estimated 16 americans, 126 were on the cruise, but none of them are reported hurt. the italian captain is under arrest right now. he...

they were hanging in them and children were crying and people screaming and jumping. we heard crew members jumped at the end into the water. >> my goodness. frightening moments. a journalist is where survivors are being taken and joins us by phone. barbie, what is the latest on the rescue mission, the search for the missing people and if they know what the ship ran into. >> reporter: well, right now the rescue operations are sort of winding town. darkness has fallen here and its starti...