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Credit card rule changes might bring rate increases (Lansing State Journal)

March 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

Credit card issuers now have to play by a new set of rules, thanks to federal legislation that took effect Feb. 22.

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Credit card rule changes might bring rate increases (Lansing State Journal)

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Buffett Ends Credit-Card ‘Fiasco,’ Sells Receivables (Update1) (Bloomberg)

March 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

March 1 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett shut a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. credit-card business and sold bad loans at 55 cents on the dollar in what he called a “very expensive business fiasco.”

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Buffett Ends Credit-Card ‘Fiasco,’ Sells Receivables (Update1) (Bloomberg)

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Buffett Ends Credit-Card ‘Fiasco,’ Sells Receivables (Correct) (Bloomberg)

February 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment 

(Corrects rate at which loans were sold in first paragraph.) March 1 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett shut a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. credit-card business and sold bad loans at 55 cents on the dollar in what he called a “very expensive business fiasco.”

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Buffett Ends Credit-Card ‘Fiasco,’ Sells Receivables (Correct) (Bloomberg)