laist.com / By Lindsay William-Ross in News on October 27, 2011 2:40 PM BlackBerry users were outraged over a recent service outage that left customers out of touch for three days, and now consumers in the U.S. and Canada are filing class action law… more »

Candice Choi, AP Personal Finance Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of America will start charging debit-card users $5 a month to pay for purchases. The move comes as the cards increasingly replace cash and as banks look for ways to offset the loss of… more »

On Tuesday economists were surprised when the Consumer Confidence Index Plunged To 46. The Conference Board’s confidence index slumped to 46, below the lowest forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of economists, from 56.5 in January, a report from the New… more »

By Luke Mullins , On Monday February 8, 2010, 2:49 pm EST Amid high unemployment and sliding home prices, a growing number of struggling consumers are doing what was once considered unthinkable: paying their credit card bills instead of their mortgages… more »