The Sun's Financial Diary

Using it wisely, you can make hundreds or even thousands of dollars from credit card arbitrage. Here’s how you can profit from free loans from credit card companies.
A couple of days ago, I received an email from Mike regarding my credit card arbitrage:
I was just wondering how you were able to get 100 K onto [...]

Yesterday, I posted an entry on credit score with a couple of items that I feel are important in getting a good score from my own experience. Last night at home, I went through several credit reports with credit score I obtained in the past few years, trying to find out what I have done [...]

Money articles I like:

Saving Explained has 7 tips to keep you motivation no savings on track. It’s always easy to get started. What’s difficult is doing it day after day, year after year.
Online Savings Blogs posted 11 online banking features you want to have. When I choose an online bank, no feature is attractive if [...]

The FREE Schick Quattro shaver that I posted a while ago appears to be still available as I received another email regarding the event this morning. If you can use one, try this link to claim yours. The offer will end on October 8, 2007, but they may run out of free shavers much earlier.

When I checked my credit score early this month, I was very happy to see it inch toward the 800 mark, despite the huge balance and the large number of accounts on file. I don’t know if it could help push my score from 788 to over 800 if I pay off all the balance [...]

It’s BRIC, not BRICK!
For investors looking for growth outside US and other developed economies, emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) offer great opportunities. With 2007 estimated real GDP growth at 3.7%, 6.7%, 9.2%, and 10.7%, respectively (according to indexmundi.com), these countries just can’t be ignored. There are many options for US [...]

The reason I want to conduct this survey is to see whether the change of a person’s circumstance will alter his/her regular investment, though it’s only a small amount.
Last month, I wrote a piece on investing and paying credit card debt. The scenario that I created in that post may not be as good as [...]

It was just a week ago I was troubled by the steep decline of China Life Insurance (LFC) after the stock lost more than $12 in two weeks. Sure the market was cooperating during that time period when everything was down, but the more than 18% drop was a little bit scary. Then just as [...]

Ben at Money Smart Life discussed how to start your eBay business without incurring credit card debt. For short-term obligation, my favorite way to borrow the money is to get 12-month 0% APR credit card.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance answered reader’s question about whole lift insurance and concludes that a term policy may be [...]

The stock market’s recovery continued last week as the S&P 500 registered its biggest weekly gain since March. On Friday, US stocks got a boost from better-than-expected economic news. Durable goods orders for last month showed a strong gain of 5.9%, while new home sales increased an annual rate of 2.8%, according to the Commerce [...]