High fees

A Consumer Federa tion of America survey found that the median overdraft fee is $35, which is unchanged from last year.

Rock hard

Prudential Financial second-quarter profit rose 4.1 percent in its financial services busi ness and core earnings jumped on a surge in profit at its US retire ment division and new found strength at the domestic insurance segment.

Zuck sis

Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, re signed as Facebook’s director of marketing to start a new company called RtoZ Media.

Fine quarter

Sotheby’s, the world’s largest publicly traded auctioneer of fine arts and collectibles, said second-quarter earn ings rose 48 percent for its best quarter ever.

It’s war!

Google accused Mi crosoft and Oracle of waging a “hostile, orga nized campaign” against its Android mobile soft ware, a sign of escalating tension in the industry patent war.