Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Chip Somodevilla/Getty The Federal Reserve should consider a 150-basis-point rate hike, a Wells Fargo strategist said. "Why not just rip off the Band-Aid — let's get there in one day," Michael Schumacher told CNBC. Most economists expect the Fed to raise interest rates 75 basis points after the conclusion of […]
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Fargo Finale Recap: Crime Doesn’t Pay (Plus, a Post-Credits Easter Egg!)
RELATED STORIES Fargo capped off its fourth season by popping a cap in quite a few characters, as more than one criminal got their just desserts. (And we don’t mean an ipecac-laced pie.) Sunday’s finale begins by flashing back through all the (many) people who have died this season — R.I.P., Rabbi Milligan; good riddance, […]
Fargo Season 4 Premiere Recap: Kansas City Beefs (Plus, Grade It!)
RELATED STORIES A gang war is brewing as Fargo kicks off its fourth season on FX with an epically ambitious, nearly three-hour (!) premiere — and a very odd arrangement may be the only thing preventing bloodshed. We meet teen Ethelrida (E’myri Crutchfield) in 1950 Kansas City as she’s hauled into the principal’s office for […]
Wells Fargo plans to cut roughly 1,000 US jobs
REUTERS/Rick Wilking Wells Fargo & Co said on Thursday it notified about 1,000 employees in its Consumer Lending and Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovations groups of plans to eliminate their positions. Most of those affected received 60-day notices, but some received pre-notices, meaning they will get a 60-day notice sometime next year. Over the summer, […]
The Critical Points: A Wells Fargo Card Duo Is Better Than the Chase Sapphire Reserve
The Critical Points: Wells Fargo Duo Better Than Chase Sapphire Reserve Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]
Wells Fargo says hundreds lost homes to computing ‘error’
Software mistakes are normally little more than inconveniences, but they had particularly serious consequences for some Wells Fargo customers. An SEC filing from the bank has revealed that a “calculation error” in its mortgage loan modification underwriting tool led to about 625 customers either being denied loan changes or not receiving offers when they would […]
Daily Podcast: Chris Gets Quoted, The Grudge, Meet Jimmy, Star Wars, Fargo, McDonalds, Netflix, & Spider-Verse
On the August 3, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista discuss the latest film and TV news, including The Grudge remake, Meet Jimmy, Star Wars Episode 9, Fargo Season 4, the McDonalds Monopoly Fraud movie, Netflix Calibrated mode, and Kraven the […]
Wells Fargo is launching a new rewards credit card to go toe-to-toe with the popular Chase Sapphire Reserve
The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Wells Fargo Wells Fargo is launching a new rewards credit card, a revamped iteration of its Propel Card. The card will earn 3x points per dollar spent on […]
Other American banks may have misbehaved as Wells Fargo did. Which ones?
Role model IF THERE is a single example of how dramatically the regulatory environment has changed for American banks in the past 18 months, it may be the trickle of information that has recently emerged about an inquiry into their sales practices. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), a banking watchdog, began […]
Brian Fargo would like his Robot Cache to ‘be the Steam of blockchain games’
Brian Fargo is the founder of Interplay Entertainment, a studio known for role-playing games like Wasteland and The Bard’s Tale, and InXile Entertainment (Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera). Now his new company, Robot Cache, wants to use blockchain to change the way people own digital games. Speaking today at our GamesBeat Summit 201…Read […]