| Bank of America Launches Microsite
Bank of America Corp. has launched its "Bank the Way You Live" mircosite today in an effort to attract customers who want to do mobile banking. The site features characters that lead users through interactive demonstrations of each online and mobile banking product. Customers can find information on how to access accounts, pay bills, transfer funds, locate branches or ATMs and receive account alert text messages on their mobile phone. Customers can also see how to gather information and accounts for a clearer financial picture, all with layers of security to keep customers personal finance information protected. .
New BofA site touts online, cell-phone banking
Bank of America Corp. has launched an online site to instruct customers about online and cell-phone banking. "Our customers lead mobile lives, and they need a bank with options, products and features that can keep up with that fast pace," says Lance Drummond, e-commerce and ATM executive. "With Bank of America, all you need is Internet access through your computer or mobile phone to be connected to your finances anytime, anywhere." The site features characters that lead visitors through interactive demonstrations of each online- and mobile-banking product. Customers can learn how to access accounts, pay bills, transfer funds, locate branches or ATMs and receive account alerts via text message on their mobile phone. The Web site, dubbed Bank the Way You Live, is at bankofamerica.com/anywhere.
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Stocks tumble on more bank writedowns; C$ falls on rate cut hint
TORONTO - Stock markets got off to a dismal start to the trading week Monday as investors were greeted with news of more financial institutions taking big hits from debt rooted in the U.S. mortgage sector. Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index fell 182.12 points to 13,348.24 on top of last week's two per cent loss. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrials fell 218.35 points to 12,958.44 at the start of a shortened trading week, with U.S. markets closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The Toronto market's junior Venture Exchange retreated 82.41 points to 2,854.79. The Canadian dollar continued to lose ground, ending the session down 1.14 cents to 101.55 cents US after Bank of Canada governor David Dodge increased the possibility of an interest rate cut next month.
Bank robbery suspects jailed
By Kathie O. Warco, Staff writer kwarco@observer-reporter.com A teller at Northwest Savings Bank driving past the Fredericktown bank just after it had been robbed Thursday afternoon was able to give state police information that helped them quickly nab two suspects. Daniel J. Famularo, 50, and Robert E. Loar, 58, both of 172 Fourth St., Pitt Gas, Greene County, were arrested about an hour-and-a-half after the 1 p.m. heist at the bank on Front Street. Loar is accused of pointing a gun at one of the tellers while Famularo pointed a weapon at the other employee. Famularo threw a bag on the counter and ordered the teller to "put money in the bag," state police said. Famularo's face was familiar to the bank's tellers, said Trooper David Vanderaar, who filed the charges.
Ramona, surrounding area under mandatory evacuation
NORTH COUNTY ---- The entire town of Ramona ---- more than 36,000 people ---- and hundreds of residents in surrounding areas were forced to flee their homes Sunday night after a Santa Ana-whipped fire burned through 5,000 acres on both sides of Highway 78, leaving blazing structures, power outages and dead animals in its wake. View A Slide Show The inferno, dubbed the Witch Creek fire by officials, was one of a dozen blazes scorching Southern California from Malibu to Mexico that prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. In East County, the so-called Harris fire had charred 20,000 acres in Potrero, leaving one civilian dead and at least 14 people ---- including four fighters ---- hospitalized.
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