Your Credit-Card Company’s Latest Venture: Exclusive Experiences

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Credit-card companies like Amex, Chase and Capital One are opening upscale lounges for their high-end customers. Wall Street Journal personal-finance reporter Imani Moise joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss other exclusive perks being offered. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O. C.I. is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.
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0:11.0	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com
0:14.4	slash Wall Street.
0:17.0	Here's your money briefing for Thursday August 22nd. I'm J.R. Whelan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:24.0	Credit card companies are upping the ante when it comes to rewards for their biggest
0:30.7	spenders. Among the perks, high-end lounges.
0:35.0	It was really swanky.
0:36.6	So one of the things that Amex said, and a lot of these card companies said,
0:39.8	is that they hire interior designers specifically to design a space so that it
0:43.8	feels upscale and that anyone who steps foot in them really feels like they're a VIP
0:48.0	and they're experiencing something exclusive. Wall Street Journal Personal Finance
0:51.9	reporter Amani Moise will join us after the break. AI may be the most important new computer technology ever, but AI needs a lot of
1:11.3	processing speed and that gets expensive fast.
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1:18.0	OCI.
1:19.0	OCI is the single platform for your infrastructure, database, application development, and AI needs.
1:25.4	Do more and spend less like Uber, 8 by 8 and Databrics Mosaic.
1:30.1	Take a free test drive of OCI at oracle.com.
1:33.0	com slash Wall Street.
1:34.3	Oracle.com slash Wall Street. The newest perks offered by many credit cards include exclusive lounges at places like concerts and sporting events.
1:48.0	Wall Street Journal Personal Finance reporter Amani Moise joins me.
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