United Airlines escalates the credit card perk wars

This is The Takeaway from today's Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: What we're watching What we're reading Economic data releases and earnings United Airlines (UAL) is shaking up its rewards program in the latest move to win over credit card customers at the center of an escalating perks war. But it's going about it in a counterintuitive way, with both the carrot and the stick. Rather than focusing on just adding perks for loyalty members and c ...