Lauren Liss, Vice President of U.S. Card at Capital One, discusses the company's latest partnership with Hotels.com. The goal of this partnership is to give consumers more flexibility to earn valuable travel rewards.
Liss discusses perks of the partnership that will allow Venture customers to earn 10x miles on hundreds of thousands of hotels, just by paying with their Venture or VentureOne cards on Hotels.com/Venture. The offer works with the Hotels.com® Rewards loyalty program, which allows members to stay 10 nights and get one free. It is also on top of the unlimited miles Venture cardholders earn on all other purchases, which can be redeemed on any airline, flight, rideshare or hotel with zero blackout dates ever.
We also dig into the Capital One Travel Survey and hear about what matters most to millennials when it comes to earning hotel rewards
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
Climate change doesn’t just mean more extreme weather – it also leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, tourism, and stresses infrastructure.
