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What The CARD Act of 2009 Means to You
2009-05-21 04:29:00 The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 yesterday. The House, already passed its own version of the bill last month, also voted 361 to 64 today to wrap up the legislation. Now the bill is sent to the President for his signature to become a law, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus What The CARD Act of 2009 Means to You More About: Personal Finance , Credit Card
Reminder: CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Ends Soon
2009-05-20 04:16:00 Just a quick reminder that the $25 bonus from Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan will end at the end of this month. If you are considering open a college savings account for your child’s future education, Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan makes a nice choice. The nationally available program was selected by Morningstar last month as one of ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Reminder : CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Ends Soon
SmartMoney 2009 Best & Worst Online Brokers
2009-05-19 21:39:00 Despite all the troubles at the financial service company, E*Trade Financial scored a big win in the latest SmartMoney Broker Survey, leading four out of five categories. Though I don’t use E*Trade as my stock broker, nor do I have a savings account with them, I do have a E*Trade Global Trading Account to ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus SmartMoney 2009 Best & Worst Online Brokers More About: Investing , Stock , Brokerage
A Costco Reward Gift That?s Nice to Have
2009-05-18 17:04:00 Last Friday we received a membership renewal letter from Costco. Together with the notice is a $64.86 reward gift check from Costco. As a Costco Executive Member, we are able to enjoy the 2% cashback for shopping at Costco and the reward check is what we have accumulated last year, which also means that in ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus A Costco Reward Gift That’s Nice to Have More About: Personal Finance , Money , Credit Card
Netflix Benefits from Recession
2009-05-15 18:14:00 Many industrial groups got hurt pretty badly in this one and a half year long recession. Banks, homebuilders, retailers, just to name a few. However, the recession has also proven to be an opportunity for others to bloom in this environment because when the wallet got tight, we cut our spending: we postpone purchase of ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Netflix Benefits from Recession More About: Investing , Stock
Why You Need To Become a Real Estate Investor
2009-05-15 17:28:00 Real estate investing is one of the fastest growing industries in the world today. Though to a substantial extent the global economic recession has hit the industry, the future looks bright and thus as a real estate investor, you stand to continue gaining in the long term. In fact, some wise sage said that in ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Why You Need To Become a Real Estate Investor More About: Personal Finance , A Real Estate , Real Estate
ING Electric Orange $50 Bonus Promotion
2009-05-15 03:58:00 Just got this offer from ING Direct. The online bank is running a $50 promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. If you open a new checking account before May 31 and use its debit card to make three purchases within the first 45 days, the bank will you deposit $50 in your account. Sounds pretty ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus ING Electric Orange $50 Bonus Promotion More About: Personal Finance , Banking
Credit Score Types and Score Ranges
2009-05-14 19:37:00 When we talk about credit score, we usually refer to the FICO score developed by Fair Isaac. FICO score, which can be purchased at myFICO, is widely used by lenders to evaluate a borrower’s credit worthiness when he/she applies for a credit card, open a bank account, or even rent an apartment. However, FICO score isn’t ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Credit Score Types and Score Ranges More About: Credit report
Lending Club Loan Composition
2009-05-13 21:38:00 It has been nearly three months since I last updated my Lending Club loan portfolio, even though I wasn’t quiet during this period of time. In fact, I have already more than doubled the number of loans I own since I got into the peer-to-peer lending business in February. Right now, I have 54 notes ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Lending Club Loan Composition More About: Alternative , Investing
Tuesday Deals: GE PhotoPhone $39.99
2009-05-12 21:29:00 Buy.com has GE Designer PhotoPhone for $39.99 with free shipping. It’s a cordless phone with 7″ LCD picture frame. Buy.com DuPont PS-131 Self-Charging Smoke Alarm for $5.99 with free shipping. Micro Center has Samsung 3.5″ 500GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive for $49.99. Newegg.com has Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5″ SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $89.99 with free ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Tuesday Deal s: GE PhotoPhone $39.99
Recent Bank Findings: Provident NJ Direct 3.25% APY and Bank of America For
2009-05-12 17:09:00 Banks that pay you 3% or more APY for your money are rare these days. In fact, right now there’s only one bank as far as I know willing to give you that kind of *high-yield*. Not long ago, we had a Redneck Bank that paid an unbeatable 3.10% APY, but the bank was quickly ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Recent Bank Findings: Provident NJ Direct 3.25% APY and Bank of America Fork 2.20% APY More About: Personal Finance , Banking , Bank of America
?I Am An Investor?
2009-05-11 17:42:00 Well, that’s not exactly what I said, but I found that a piece by Knight Kiplinger, the Editor in Chief of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, in the June issue of the magazine says a lot about what an investor should do in this stormy economic environment. Mr. Kiplinger isn’t as well known as legendary investors such ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus “I Am An Investor ” More About: Investing , Stock , Saving
Weekend Linkage - May 10, 2009
2009-05-11 07:03:00 Market Recap U.S. stocks registered another weekly gain last week, despite a gloomy employment report from the government Friday which showed that the nation’s unemployment rate jumped to 8.9% in April. While the jobless rate is the highest in 25 years, the pace of job cut seemed slowed last month, fueling the speculation that the worst ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Weekend Linkage - May 10, 2009 More About: Roundup
Credit Cards with Sign up Bonus
2009-05-09 17:11:00 A quick summary of credit cards that currently offer sign up bonus: Starwood Preferred Guest Card from American Express 25,000 Starpoints: Open a Starwood Preferred Guest Card and get up to 25,000 bonus Starpoints that can be redeemed for airline tickets, hotel stays, or room upgrade. $45 annual fee is waived for the first year. Find ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Credit Cards with Sign up Bonus More About: Personal Finance , Credit Card
Consumer Friendly Credit Cards
2009-05-08 20:46:00 The new credit card regulations that aim to rein in excessive, and sometimes abusive, practices by credit card companies won’t take effect until July 2010. Congress is proposing a new legislation that will further regulate the credit card industry, protect consumers, and, hopefully, speed up the implementation of the new rules passed by federal agencies ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Consumer Friendly Credit Cards More About: Personal Finance , Credit Card
April 2009 Unemployment Rate 8.9% - Chart of the Day
2009-05-08 15:39:00 The labor market is still weak, but there’s little hope that the situation may start to improve as the pace of job cut slowed in April . The Labor Department reported today that U.S. employers trimmed 539,000 nonfarm jobs in April 2009, the smallest monthly decline since October 2008, after ADP data showed similar decline early this ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus April 2009 Unemployment Rate 8.9% - Chart of the Day More About: Employment , Charts
Discover Card $30,000 Paperless Statements Sweepstakes
2009-05-07 21:21:00 Are you still receiving paper statements from your banks, credit card issuers, or phone companies? Since I do transactions, such as checking account activities, paying bills, and transferring funds, I want to eliminate paper statements all together if I can because there’s nothing on the paper that I can’t find online. So there’s just no reason ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Discover Card $30,000 Paperless Statements Sweepstakes More About: Personal Finance , Credit Card , Discover Card
Economic Recovery Payment for Social Security Recipients Sent on May 7
2009-05-07 18:13:00 Good news for 55 million social security benefit recipients who are looking forward to the one-time $250 economic recovery payment. I mentioned early that the Social Security Administration plans to issue the checks to SSI recipient this month. Now it looks like the waiting is over. An announcement on the SSA website says that first payment ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Economic Recovery Payment for Social Security Recipients Sent on May 7 More About: Economy , Personal Finance
Adding Exxon Mobil to My DRIP List
2009-05-06 17:38:00 I am still expanding my stock investments, this time through the DRIP program at ComputerShare. Yesterday, I added Exxon Mobil (XOM) to my regular purchase list with a monthly purchase of $100 of the stock. The reason that I want to buy it through a DRIP program rather making a one-time purchase like I did with ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Adding Exxon Mobil to My DRIP List More About: Personal Finance , Investing , Stock
Adding Exxon Mobil to My DSPP List
2009-05-06 17:38:00 I am still expanding my stock investments, this time through the DSPP program at ComputerShare. Yesterday, I added Exxon Mobil (XOM) to my regular purchase list with a monthly purchase of $100 of the stock. The reason that I want to buy it through a DSPP program rather making a one-time purchase like I did with ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Adding Exxon Mobil to My DSPP List More About: Investing , Stock
How to Save Money on Life Insurance
2009-05-05 16:34:00 Most of us understand why we need life insurance. We know that our families depend upon us for dozens of things, and we want to make sure they could maintain a comfortable lifestyle if we passed away. But even though people realize they should buy life insurance, they put off a decision because they think ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus How to Save Money on Life Insurance More About: Personal Finance , Save Money
PowerShares Shut down 19 ETFs
2009-05-04 22:05:00 On one hand, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry continues to expand at a record pace (the total number of ETFs at the end of 2008 grew to 747, up 118 from 2007); on the other hand, funds that get no love from investors are being eliminated. Last Friday, PowerShares, one of the major players in ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus PowerShares Shut down 19 ETFs More About: Investing
April 2009 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth
2009-05-04 16:48:00 On top of the 9% gain in March, our net worth grew strongly in April , due to the robust rebound in the stock market, even though we took out cash last month to pay taxes. Without house and vehicle related items, our net worth at the end of April showed a gain of $58,504.90 to ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus April 2009 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth More About: Review , Net worth
Weekend Linkage - May 3, 2009
2009-05-04 04:25:00 Market Recap U.S. stock market stretched its gain into third month after consumer confidence improved unexpectedly last month and the Fed said that the worst of the recession may be behind us. Stocks were also boosted by quarterly earnings news as two-third companies in the S&P 500 have reported strong numbers so far. For the week, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Weekend Linkage - May 3, 2009 More About: Personal Finance , Roundup
I-Bond Rate for May 2009 - November 2009 Is 0%
2009-05-02 17:09:00 I hope you have bought some I-bonds before May 1, so you can still enjoy a little bit the 5.64% yield I-bond rate that was good till April 30. If you missed the deadline and bought some bonds yesterday, May 1st, then too bad because the rate for Series I Savings Bond s issued between May ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus I-Bond Rate for May 2009 - November 2009 Is 0% More About: Investing
Got My Free BusinessWeek Magazine Already
2009-05-01 20:34:00 A little more two weeks ago, I wrote a post on where to get free one-year subscription of BusinessWeek magazine. I didn’t really expect the magazine to come because I had similar experience before with some promised free magazines that never arrived. But this time I am pretty surprised when I saw the latest issue ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Got My Free BusinessWeek Magazine Already More About: Free Stuff
Take a Big Picture View of the Stock Market
2009-05-01 19:37:00 The S&P 500 Index lost about 46% between August 2008 and September 2002 when the internet bubble burst. Then it took the benchmark 5 years to reach a new all-time high in October 2007. Then there came the subprime mortgage crisis, the collapse of the housing market and the financial market, eventually, the recession. In about one ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Take a Big Picture View of the Stock Market More About: Investing
Make A Budget in Three Steps
2009-04-30 21:19:00 April is National Financial Literacy Month. My contribution to this event, on the last day of the month, is an article that I wrote early on how to create a budget. It is an expanded version of a post that was posted on Quicken Online Blog. When talking about living on a budget, people sometimes mistakenly ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Make A Budget in Three Steps More About: Personal Finance , Finance , Money
Stock Trades Since October 2008
2009-04-30 20:28:00 I am by no means a trader. I am not always looking for stocks to buy. However, since last October when the stock market started to sink, I have been active, relatively, on trading stocks. In fact, stocks I bought and sold since October 2008 are more than the total number of trades I did ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Stock Trades Since October 2008 More About: Investing
Prosper Relaunches, Becomes Prosper Loans Marketplace
More articles from this author:2009-04-29 18:42:00 Prosper, once the largest operator of peer-to-peer lending until it shut down its operation in October 2008 amid regulatory scrutiny, has relaunched yesterday and now it’s called Prosper Loans Marketplace , with a twist on how to lend and borrow. However, since the Prosper is still in the process of completing registration with the Security and ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $25 Bonus Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Prosper Relaunches, Becomes Prosper Loans Marketplace More About: Personal Finance , Prosper 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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