Archive for December, 2007
CompUSA to Shut Down All Stores
According to Wall Street Journal (as well as USA Today), CompUSA will shut its door at more than 100 stores at the end of the year. Be careful when purchasing any products that carry CompUSA rebates from now on because nobody knows if it will continue to process rebate requests after closing the stores. Even [...]
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Finding the Funds That Beat the S&P 500
In the third part of the 2007 Consumer Reports Ultimate Money Guide, a method was provided by the magazine on how to beat the broad market index, which is repeated in the following:
No-load: Look at no-load funds only.
Low-fee: Identify those with lowest expense ratios.
High-asset: Keep those with the most assets under management.
Long-tenure: Get rid of [...]
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Prices of Gold Coins: How are They Determined?
Did you ever wonder why the prices of bullion coins containing the same amount of gold are different and how they are determined?
Yesterday, I read an article on GoodSeek.com (I also subscribe to their free daily Gold Seeker Report, which provides a nice summary of the precious market) that explains the prices discrepancy among gold [...]
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Poll: What Concerns You the Most When Getting a Credit Card?
Credit card companies’ interest rate policy is the subject of a congressional hearing this week as executives from major credit card issuers went to Capital Hill to defend their actions on rising card member’s interest rates, even when they had good credit history. A USA Today story yesterday portraits a victim, Janet Hard, who paid [...]
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Switching from Firstrade to Tradeking
As 2007 comes to an conclusion, I make another change of my investment accounts over the weekend when I opened a TradeKing account, which will replace Firstrade as my main stock broker for stocks that pay dividend.
I got the Firstrade account in early 2006, mainly for its free dividend reinvestment feature, one that my primary [...]
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