Archive for March, 2007
Carnival of Personal Finance No. 91
Welcome to the 91st edition of Carnival of Personal Finance!
In the past week, we have received a total of 77 submissions to the Carnival and many of them are articles with high quality. When I went through all the posts, I identified six of them as Editor’s Choices. My criteria of making the selection [...]
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Year-to-Date 4-Week T-Bill Rates and Current Online Savings Rates
Since the start of 2007, the rates of 4-week Treasury bill have been on the rise. Last week’s auction set the latest investment rate at 5.247% APR. If this rate is converted to annual yield, the APY is 5.376%. Since interests earned from T-bill investments are exempted from state income taxes, the equivalent yield (EAPY) [...]
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Weekend Deals: Free PC Magazine
Mercury Magazines has free PC magazine after you fill out a short form. I have done some similar deals before for free magazines, however, none of them came. So beware. Anyway, it dont’ hurt to give it a try.
Elsewhere, CompUSA has TrendNet 54Mbps Wireless Firewall Router for $9.99 after $30 mail-in rebates ($10 CompUSA rebate [...]
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Picked up Some XFML
I originally thought I should wait some time before jumping in on Xinhua Finance Media (XFML). Well, I did wait, but not for long. Around 3:00 pm yesterday when I saw the stock lost almost two dollars to around $11 per share from its open price, I placed an order and bought 360 shares XFML [...]
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Xinhua Finance Media (XFML) Debut, then Sank
Xinhua Finance Media Ltd (XFML) went ahead its scheduled IPO Friday despite recent sharp decline of Chinese stocks, but the reception of this latest offering on the street was nothing but cold.
Before the IPO, there were speculations that XFML may scrape its plan in wake of the plunge of Chinese domestic stocks on February 27th, [...]
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