Tags / Mastercard

GENERAL Wed Aug 6, 2008 @ 9:03am neoform

news.yahoo.com -- By Erin Zureick Wed Aug 6, 4:27 AM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of clothes and shoes fell in July as cash-strapped consumers cut back spending further to pay for nondiscretionary purchases such as food and gasoline, MasterCard Advisors said in a re.. Read More

GENERAL Tue Jul 1, 2008 @ 3:01pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- 58 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retail gasoline demand remained in a slump as high prices at the pump trimmed demand for the fuel, MasterCard Advisors said Tuesday. "The regional year-over-year view shows all regions but the Midwest are consum.. Read More

GENERAL Mon Jun 9, 2008 @ 6:01pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- By Martha Graybow 48 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - Discover Financial Services (DFS.N) wants roughly $6 billion in damages from larger rivals Visa Inc (V.N) and MasterCard Inc (MA.N) in a long-running antitrust lawsuit, court documents made public on.. Read More

GENERAL Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 9:02am neoform

news.yahoo.com -- 39 minutes ago NEW YORK (Reuters) - MasterCard Inc (MA.N) said on Tuesday first-quarter earnings more than doubled, helped by currency gains and the sale of a stake in a Brazilian credit card services company. The Purchase, New York-based company said.. Read More

ECONOMY Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 6:00pm neoform

biz.yahoo.com -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Mastercard Inc. shares got a boost after an analyst opined that the company's business may weather the economic slowdown by cutting costs and could be "recession proof." Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst Chris Brendler upgraded the stock to.. Read More

MEDIA Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 3:00pm neoform

www.mediaweek.com -- Turner’s ad sales team has another podbusting execution up its sleeve, revisiting the concept of the branded “mini-drama” during this Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards telecast. Per terms of a deal with MasterCard, TNT will run a brief original.. Read More

GENERAL Wed Dec 26, 2007 @ 12:01pm neoform

news.yahoo.com -- Jennifer LeClaire, newsfactor.com 31 minutes ago Shoppers were spending money up until the last minute, but holiday sales were nevertheless a disappointment. So says MasterCard Advisors' SpendingPulse, a report that tracks retail sales nationally. Spe.. Read More

WORLD Wed Dec 19, 2007 @ 9:00am neoform

money.cnn.com -- BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- MasterCard must drop fees it charges for cross-border transactions or face daily fines of 3.5 percent of daily global turnover, European Union regulators said Tuesday. The European Commission said that multilateral interchange.. Read More

GENERAL Mon Dec 17, 2007 @ 9:01am neoform

news.yahoo.com -- By David Lawsky and Huw Jones 1 hour, 35 minutes ago BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive arm will rule on Wednesday that MasterCard's (MA.N) method of charging fees for international purchases violates EU antitrust rules, a source famili.. Read More

MEDIA Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 12:00pm neoform

www.mediaweek.com -- NBC Universal has entered into a marketing partnership with MasterCard involving the NBC freshman police drama Life. NBC will air a series of commercial “pod busters,” sponsored by MasterCard, during the Wednesday, 10 p.m. show that will offer clues.. Read More