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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
How to Open an OptionHouse Account
As you may know, discount broker OptionsHouse is currently running a promotion which gives 100 commission free trades for every new customer with $2,500 deposit. This is a good deal if you can get the most out of the offer, even though trading 100 times in 2 months (the free trades will expire 60 days [...]
October 2009 Unemployment Rate 10.20% – Chart of the Day
The economy has grown again, but the labor market showed no sign of improving. Actually, if you look at the the unemployment report released this morning, you will probably feel things are getting worse, not better.
In the latest job report, the government said that the nation’s monthly unemployment rate reached 10.20%, the highest level in [...]
Schwab Launches Extra-Cheap ETFs
One of the biggest advantages of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) over traditional mutual funds is that ETFs usually cost much less to own because of the way ETFs are structured. Also helping to reduce the cost is that not before long, all ETFs are passively managed, meaning that they all track their respective index, minimizing the [...]
I-Bond Rate for November 2009 – May 2010 Is 3.36%
The last time I wrote about I-Bond interest rate was last May when the Treasury Department set the total earning rate of Series I-Bond issued from May to November to 0.00% due to the negative annual inflation rate, which has already affected the contribution of 2010 401(k) plan.
Even though that I-Bonds purchased in the past six [...]
October 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
I feel that the last few days of October kind of ruined the whole month for investors. Even though the Dow closed above the physiologically important, but symbolic 10,000 mark for the first time in a year in October, the stock market sold off in the second half of the month. Major indices closed October [...]
How to Open a Scottrade Account
Scottrade is a leading online discount broker which offers a wide range of products at very competitive price. If you are considering opening an account with Scottrade and start to invest in the stock market yourself, here’s a good video that will help you get a better understanding of what Scottrade offers. In this video, [...]
Firstrade Trading Platform Review
Early last week, I took a look at Scottrade trading platform because it’s the broker that I use the most for stock trading (not that I trade a lot). As you know, Scottrade isn’t my only stock broker. In fact, it is one of many brokerage accounts I own. Another *old* account I have is [...]
Quicken Giveaway Winners
Thanks everyone for participating the 2010 Quicken Deluxe giveaway I ran last week. The contest received a total of 61 entries. Now the winners are selected by random number generator at random.org and they are:
Drew at 21 and Heather S at 38. Congrats to the two lucky winners! The Quicken software you won will be [...]
Chase Sapphire Card 10,000 Bonus Points Promotion
The new Chase Sapphire Card is a premier travel rewards card that offers excellent credit card features. Some of the key benefits of the Sapphire Card include:
Earn 1 point for each $1 spent on purchases.
Earn an additional 1 point for each $1 of eligible airfare net purchases made online through the program booking tool.
There are [...]
OptionsHouse Promotion Code for 100 Free Trades
OptionsHouse is one of the discount brokers that I have an account with.
I opened the account in June when I found that it charges only $2.95 per stock trade, much less than other brokers I use (Zecco offers free trade, but the requirement is rather high for small investors). However, it disappointed me when I [...]
