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The Daily Money: How the Capital One-Discover deal could impact consumers
View Date:2024-12-23 19:40:52
Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money.
Capital One's acquisition of Discover adds new urgency to the question, What's in your wallet?
Turns out, customers can look forward to a flurry of new perks if Capital One’s $35 billion purchase of Discover Financial Services goes through, Medora Lee reports.
The acquisition would give Capital One access to Discover’s high-credit-quality customers and its network of payment processing services, an area dominated by Visa and Mastercard. That means more competition, and that's good for customers. Read the story.
Meet the Beatlemania boomers. They face a retirement crisis
The youngest baby boomers, born in the era that spawned Beatlemania, face a looming retirement crisis, researchers have found.
"Late boomers," Americans born between 1960 and 1965, have less retirement wealth, and much less retirement savings, than either older boomers or “war babies,” generations born between 1942 and 1959, according to a recent paper from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
To compare wealth, researchers examined different generational groups at the same age range. They found late boomers had significantly less combined retirement wealth than older boomers at the same age. Read the story.
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🍔 Today's Menu 🍔
KFC is introducing a new item. And, to invoke a favorite Saturday Night Live sketch, it's almost pizza.
"Chizza," pronounced "cheet-za," is coming to KFC menus starting Monday, Feb. 26, for a limited time. The not-quite-pizza features two white meat fried chicken filets topped with marinara sauce, melted mozzarella cheese and crispy pepperoni, Gabe Hauari reports.
According to KFC, the Chizza debuted on KFC menus in the Philippines -- Huh -- and has since made its way to KFC restaurants in Korea, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Germany, Spain and Mexico, among other countries. Read the story.
About The Daily Money
Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer news from USA TODAY. We break down financial news and provide the TLDR version: how decisions by the Federal Reserve, government and companies impact you.
Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA Today.
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