The Sun's Financial Diary

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I got two new credit cards , but I really didn’t apply for any of them .
Last night I received two new credit cards in the mail. One is from Bank of America and the other one is from Lowe’s. They are both replacements of the cards I already own. However, [...]

No, I am not talking about their commission free trading (check out Zecco new pricing policy for more details on how to get commission free trades).
It’s now a quite common practice for financial institutions to use small amount of trial deposits to verify the ownership of bank accounts, if they can’t, or don’t, verify it [...]

On May 31, 2007, HSBC Direct, which offers the popular Online Savings Account with 5.05% APY, will unveil its latest product aimed to compete in the interest-bearing check account market. The HSBC Direct Online Payment Account is essentially a checking account that pays a moderate interest rate. According to the email I received yesterday, the [...]

Hope you have had a nice Memorial Day weekend.

Tight Fisted Miser suggests you should find a mechanic you trust to handle the repair job of your vehicle.
Get Rich Slowly explains how class works. Are you upper-class, or lower-class, or somewhere in between?
The Money Mythos questions the value of online interest checking accounts. Since I only [...]

So far I have conducted three polls on this site, one about paying mortgage with credit cards is still ongoing and two were closed. The reason I like to run opinion polls is to get real life people’s opinions on issues that are closely related to personal finance, in addition to getting the news [...]

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Zecco Trading is an online broker that lets you buy stocks/ETFs for free. Open an account with a minimum $25,000 and receive commission free trades.
Well, I eventually opened a Zecco account after mulling the idea of getting commission free trading for a long time. The main attraction is, of course, zero commission trading. Currently, I [...]

Ben at Money Smart Life tells us how financial maintenance can keep our money engine running smooth. How often do you do financial housekeeping?
Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money wonders whether we are now living larger or just living differently. Things now are much different from those 30 years ago, are we supposed to [...]

A couple of days ago CNNMoney has an article with a list of seven credit cards that give cardholders generous rewards (well, that’s just relative to the 1% reward that I can pretty much get from any card). Out of the seven cards mentioned in the article, I own two of them, Discover Miles card [...]