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Chase Freedom Card Switches to Rewards Points
2008-07-23 05:32:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Chase Freedom Card Switches to Rewards Points I have been using Chase Freedom Card for a while and like it quite a lot because its 3% cashback rewards program. Though I don’t use the card for every purchase, I do charge the card at gas stations and grocery stores to ... More About: Credit Cards , Personal Finance
A Taste of China
2008-07-22 05:29:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary A Taste of China With less than one month away from the Beijing Olympics, here’s a short video to give you a little taste of China if you can’t go to the Games ---Check Out These Related Articles:Chinese Stocks: Too Hot to Handle?China Life Insurance Suspended, againChina: 2008China Life ...
Poll Result: Your Favorite Discount Brokers
2008-07-22 04:40:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Poll Result: Your Favorite Discount Brokers Early last month, I ran a poll here at this blog asking readers to name their favorite brokers. The purpose of that poll is to see what we ordinary investors are using when it comes to buy and sell stocks/ETFs and whether our choice ... More About: Personal Finance , Investing , Mutual fund
Weekend Linkage - July 20, 2008
2008-07-21 04:48:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Weekend Linkage - July 20, 2008 Summary of the Week It was a pretty sweet week last week, after weeks of steep losses in the stock markets. Some good news came from the financial sector, which is the hardest hit industrial group in the current crisis. First both Wells Fargo and ...
E*Trade Complete Savings Account Offers $25 Signup Bonus
2008-07-18 21:14:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary E*Trade Complete Savings Account Offers $25 Signup Bonus From what I can see, they best way to promote a product is to offer potential customers some incentive and people become enthusiastic especially when cash is offered. One company doing very well in this regard is ING Direct, which has been ... More About: Banking
Oil Down, Stocks Up, Two in a Row
2008-07-18 05:20:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Oil Down, Stocks Up, Two in a Row Do you remember when was the last time the Dow had two consecutive 200+ days? I don’t, but that doesn’t matter because I am concerned about the stock markets now than historical performance. After closing below 11,000 for the Dow for the first ... More About: Investing
Poll: Are You Concerned about Your Bank After the Collapse of IndyMac?
2008-07-17 13:48:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Poll : Are You Concerned about Your Bank After the Collapse of IndyMac? In the past few days, I heard a lot of news about the collapse of IndyMac bank and how anxious depositors arrived 4:00 am in the morning at the door of the bank’s branch offices in CA, hoping ...
Add Wind to Your Portfolio with PowerShares Global Wind Energy ETF
2008-07-16 04:46:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Add Wind to Your Portfolio with PowerShares Global Wind Energy ETF So what are alternative energies? According to Wikipedia, alternative energy sources include biomass, geothermal, solar energy, wind energy, and wave power. In late April, Glaymore Securities launched a Solar Energy exchange-traded fund, TAN, which lets investors in solar energy providers as ... More About: Personal Finance , Investing
myFICO 20% off Summer Sale on All 3 Credit Scores
2008-07-15 04:51:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary myFICO 20% off Summer Sale on All 3 Credit Scores myFICO, the official provider of FICO credit score? is now having a summer sale with 20% off on all 3 credit scores from Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion (FICO Credit Complete). The original price of FICO Credit Complete is $47.85. Now ...
Banks Taken Over by FDIC in 2008
2008-07-14 05:50:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Banks Taken Over by FDIC in 2008 IndyMac Bank, the California-based bank specializing in mortgage lending, became the latest, yet largest so far, bank to fail in 2008 after the bank’s customers withdrew more than $1.3 billion since June amid crisis in the financial and housing market. Last Friday, July ... More About: Banking
Free iPod Offer from Key Bank
2008-07-14 03:42:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Free iPod Offer from Key Bank Key Bank is offering free iPod Nano or touch when opening a qualified checking account before August 15, 2008. To qualify for the free iPod Nano offer, you must open a Key Express Free Checking, Key Advantage Checking or a Key Business Free Checking Account ... More About: Ipod
Weekend Linkage - July 23, 2008
2008-07-13 20:26:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Weekend Linkage - July 23, 2008 Summary of the week The stock markets now always go one step forward and two step back. Last week is another volatile week for stocks as major indexes fell for the sixth week in a row. One big news last week was that, Fannie Mae ...
Free Summer Recipes from Gourmet Magazine
2008-07-12 16:44:00 Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Free Summer Recipes from Gourmet Magazine Amazon.com is offering free summer recipes from Gourment magazine, downloadable in PDF format. The recipes are for: Olive Tomato Squares Mahimahi With Charred Onion, Tomatoes, And Tapenade Vinaigrette Skirt Steak With Haricots Verts, Corn, And Pesto Balsalmic Roasted Potato Wedges Blackberry Upside-Down Cake Click here to download the recipes. If you ...
Revolution Money Exchange Launches RevolutionCard
2008-07-08 03:06:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Revolution Money Exchange Launches RevolutionCard A few months ago, RevolutionMoneyExchange, a challenger to Paypal, generated some buzz when they offered a $25 signup bonus for every new account. I signed up an account and used it to make some transfers. From my limited experience, the service is quite nice and ...
Weekend Linkage - July 6, 2008
2008-07-07 02:43:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Weekend Linkage - July 6, 2008 So how was your July 4th holiday weekend? I took a rare 3-day break from this blog as well as all those emails since last Friday to relax a little bit. Over the long weekend, we had some family members and friends come for a ...
Dow and S&P in Bear Market?
2008-07-03 03:18:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Dow and S&P in Bear Market ? Yesterday, we saw the Dow made a 276-point turnaround to close the trading session with a gain of 38 points. What fueled the rally was the surprising June sales number from GM. And the turnaround actually made people speculate that the second half of ... More About: Investing , Bear Market
Chinese ADRs Monthly Update - June 2008
2008-07-02 13:33:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Chinese ADRs Monthly Update - June 2008 Comparing to what happened to Chinese stocks listed on U. S. stock exchanges, the drop in major U. S. equity indexes is minor, though the Dow Jones Industrial Average did lose more than 10% in just one month (10.19%). During the same time ... More About: China , June 2008
E*Trade Complete Savings Account now 3.30% APY
2008-07-02 02:48:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary E*Trade Complete Savings Account now 3.30% APY For the second time in less than two months, E*Trade Financial decided to make its Complete Savings Account competitive by increasing its interest rate from 3.15% APY to 3.30% APY, starting July 2, 2008. It made a similar rate adjustment in early May. Though ... More About: Banking
June 2008 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth
2008-07-01 14:20:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary June 2008 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth U. S. stock market fell hard in June 2008, so did our paper wealth (because most of our assets are stocks with only value on paper). When the Dow closed the month at two-year low, there isn’t really anything good to ... More About: Net worth
Weekend Linkage - June 29, 2008
2008-06-30 03:17:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Weekend Linkage - June 29, 2008 Check out these excellent readings from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere. 9 Ways to Save Without Breaking a Sweat I can add one more to make it 10 ways: Use automatic invesment plan when possible to invest in mutual funds. Rate Your ...
Discover More Card $100 Bonus Offer
2008-06-29 20:04:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Discover More Card $100 Bonus Offer Found this Discover More Card deal on the Clipper Magazine in my mailbox. Details of the offer are: $100 Cashback bonus when you make $500 in purchase; 0% APR on balance transfer until June 2009; 5% Cashback bonus; 3% balance transfer fee. I have discussed this card in my best ... More About: Credit Cards
Make Hundreds of Dollars by Referring People
2008-06-27 20:31:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Make Hundreds of Dollars by Referring People There are quite a few programs out there that actually pay you for referring new customers to them. And if you can manage to exhaust all your referrals, you can make hundreds, even thousands, or dollars without much of work to you, though ... More About: Money , Revolution , Bonus
Free Schick Quattro Titanium Razor/Trimmer
2008-06-27 04:14:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Free Schick Quattro Titanium Razor /Trimmer Here’s another chance to get a free Schick Quattro Titanium razor/trimmer. Use the above link and follow the instruction to upload a picture to start making a movie. At the end after the movie is played, select Save to save your movie. On the next screen, ...
Stocks Fell Like a Rock
2008-06-27 03:34:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Stocks Fell Like a Rock The last time I inserted the Dow’s intra-day chart, the benchmark dropped some 400 points. That’s was less than three weeks. Today is another bloody day for stocks, under similar circumstance as 20 days ago: Oil surged past $140 a barrel; More writedowns are expected at financial firms ... More About: Investing
TradeKing Review and Promotion Codes: A Discount Broker with Loads of Featu
2008-06-26 14:16:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary TradeKing Review and Promotion Codes: A Discount Broker with Loads of Features I have wanted to write a review of TradeKing for very long, but kept postponing it. One of the reasons is that I don’t use TradeKing as often as I do with Scottrade or Zecco. I opened a TradeKing ... More About: Brokerage
TradeKing Review: A Discount Broker with Loads of Features
2008-06-26 09:16:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary TradeKing Review : A Discount Broker with Loads of Features I have wanted to write a review of TradeKing for very long, but kept postponing it. One of the reasons is that I don’t use TradeKing as often as I do with Scottrade or Zecco. I opened a TradeKing account last December ... More About: Brokerage
Bank Dividend Yield Revisited
2008-06-24 15:13:00 Original post on The Sun's Financial Diary Bank Dividend Yield Revisited Last November, shortly after the Dow peaked at 14,280 points, I had a post on dividend yields of the largest banks in the country. At that time, I thought that, with many bank stocks yielding 6.0% or more, buying banks make some sense if the banks ... More About: Investing
Early Termination Fees Slashed at T-Mobile
2008-06-24 12:37:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary Early Termination Fees Slashed at T-Mobile Early this month when I called T-Mobile to complain the 15 cents they charged me for sending me a text reminder, I also asked their early termination policy and was told that if I want to get out my contract before it expires, ... More About: T Mobile
Bank Dividend Yield Revisited
2008-06-24 10:13:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary Bank Dividend Yield Revisited Last November, shortly after the Dow peaked at 14,280 points, I had a post on dividend yields of the largest banks in the country. At that time, I thought that, with many bank stocks yielding 6.0% or more, buying banks make some sense if the banks ... More About: Stock
Free iPod Nano for Opening KeyBank Student Checking Account
More articles from this author:2008-06-23 22:00:00 Original post on The Sun’s Financial Diary Free iPod Nano for Opening KeyBank Student Checking Account Still don’t have a free iPod Nano? KeyBank is offering a free 4GB iPod Nano when opening a free Student Checking Account. Key features of the checking account include: No monthly maintenance fee or minimum balance requirement No per-check fees or limits Free ... More About: Ipod , Ipod nano 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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