Archive for September, 2006
New Promotion From Discover Card
Time to put your Discorver card in use!
Discover card has a new promotion from October to December for 5% cashback on restaurants and movies (good for both tickets and rentals).
Making the deal more attractive, you can also earn 5% cashback from the following retailers: (both online and in-store):
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Circuit City
Crutchfield
Napster
Waldenbooks
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Weekend Reading: Aspects of Investor Psychology (Part I)
Since we were forced to stay at home because of the storm, I decided to pull out a paper I printed out sometime ago and but didn’t have time to read. The paper, Aspects of Investor Psychology, by D. Kahneman and M. Riepe, is not new (published in 1998 in Journal Portfolio Management), but it [...]
Chase 0% Balance Transfer Charges Follow Up
So I called Chase this morning before I came to work about the finance charges associated with the 0% balance transfer I made back in July. The $40.49 charge was under the “Periodic Rate� category and my main questions to the CSR were what is periodic rate and why was I charged for 0% balance [...]
A Little Celebration Of My Own
I was notified last week that my biography has been included in the 2007 edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
It feels good to be recoginzed.
Categories: General
Latest Chinese IPO On Deck — EDU
New Oriental Education (EDU) will be the latest Chinese stock to be listed on the big board. According to IPOHome.com, EDU will offer 7.5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS) at a range of $11-$13 and the stock will start to trade on Wednesday, September 6.
EDU’s main business is test preparation. As tens of thousands [...]
