The Sun's Financial Diary

According to a MarketWatch report yesterday, TransUnion, one of the three major credit report agencies, has settled a class action lawsuit which could mean free credit score and credit monitoring service for up to 9 months for millions. The lawsuit accused that TransUnion sold customer information to third parties for targeted marketing effort, an allegation [...]

If you get the contents of this blog via a feed reader, chances are you haven’t visited the site for some time (though I do have some related post links in my feed). If that’s the case, then I invite you to come back for a look because the site just got a facelift. It [...]

A couple of months ago I joined a online focus group, Focus Forward, hoping to make a few bucks in my spare time. I used to do a lot of online surveys, making a couple of hundreds a month. Not a big money, but nice to have. The problem with those online surveys, however, [...]

The following is a guest post from Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil, author of the book, Financial Infidelity: Seven Steps to Conquering the #1 Relationship Wrecker. Dr. Weil has been an internationally acclaimed relationship therapist for thirty years. New York magazine named her one of the city’s top therapists and Psychology Today named her one [...]

Got this offer from MyPoints.
If you want to open a ShareBuilder account, then use promo code SBMP25 to receive a $25 bonus plus 550 points from MyPoints. To get the bonus, a new account must be opened and at least one security must be purchased. Once these conditions are met, the bonus will be credited [...]

and home buyers could save hundreds or thousands of dollars on commissions as online real estate brokers can compete with their local counterparts more effectively.
The Justice Department yesterday announced that it has reached a tentative settlement with the National Association of Realtors on an antitrust lawsuit that accused NAR of discrimination against online real estate [...]

I have two gas station receipts in my hands: one from last Monday and one yesterday. They are both from the same gas station where I always fill up my car on my way to work every week. On these two receipts, in addition to the ever-increasing gas price, which has gone up from [...]

Update: Now it’s DEAD!
RevolutionMoneyExchange’s $25 sign up bonus promotion was supposed to end on May 15, 2008, but it looks like the offer is still alive.
Yesterday, a reader emailed asking for a referral link so he can get an additional $5 bonus. I emailed back with the link and later asked the reader whether he [...]

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recently launched a website, Hospital Compare, that allows patients to compare measures of quality of care of more than 2500 hospitals nationwide. The website, which was created by the joint effort of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services of DHHS and the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), is [...]

I have been considering getting a new online savings account with a better rate for quite a while. The banks I am using right now (IGoBanking and FNBO Direct) are OK, but their rates are not as competitive as they used to be. After looking around and evaluating potential candidates such as Countrywide Bank, Provident [...]