Archive for September, 2007

Gold Price Climbs Back to $700/Ounce

Posted by Sun on September 7, 2007 (10) Comment

This stock market in the past month didn’t offer investors much of joy as major indexes gave back a big chunk of their gains after peaked later July. At the same time, gold has made a quite come back to close at a six-month high of $694 an ounce yesterday. It could go over $700 [...]

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Bank of America May Have Removed Balance Transfer Fee Cap

Posted by Sun on September 6, 2007 (9) Comment

Bank of America is one of my main sources for credit card arbitrage (the other one is Chase). Though I have only two cards with them and they are both more than 5 years old, I constantly got 0% balance transfer offer in the mail with no or very little fee. I don’t really know [...]

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Around the PF Blogosphere: September 5, 2007

Posted by Sun on September 5, 2007 (1) Comment

Articles I like today:

Frugal For Life has some interesting and useful tips on saving pennies in the kitchen.
Moment On Money talks about misconceptions about financial planners, from a Pro’s point of view. The truth is financial planning isn’t just about picking stocks.
Money And Investing started a Prosper portfolio and wonders whether Prosper can make him [...]

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Considering Rollover My 401(k)

Posted by Sun on September 5, 2007 (4) Comment

Last week, when my previous employer informed me that the company match for the first 6 months has been credited to my 401(k) account at Fidelity, I was also told that my account status will be changed to “Terminated” on August 31st. That means I can move the money to other accounts starting September 1st. [...]

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August 2007 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Posted by Sun on September 4, 2007 (0) Comment

I just realized that I have been tracking the growth of our net worth for more than a year already. One year ago today, we had a total of $369,550 without including house and car related items. Here’s a picture of our net worth at the end of August 2006.

How are we doing one year [...]

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