The Sun's Financial Diary

Check out these excellent readings from The Money Writers and elsewhere around the PF blogosphere.
9 Ways to Save Without Breaking a Sweat I can add one more to make it 10 ways: Use automatic invesment plan when possible to invest in mutual funds.
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Found this Discover More Card deal on the Clipper Magazine in my mailbox.
Details of the offer are:

$100 Cashback bonus when you make $500 in purchase;
0% APR on balance transfer until June 2009;
5% Cashback bonus;
3% balance transfer fee.

I have discussed this card in my best cash back credit card post. With this card, you can also [...]

There are quite a few programs out there that actually pay you for referring new customers to them. And if you can manage to exhaust all your referrals, you can make hundreds, even thousands, or dollars without much of work to you, though demands for each product are different and not all of them are [...]

Here’s another chance to get a free Schick Quattro Titanium razor/trimmer.
Use the above link and follow the instruction to upload a picture to start making a movie. At the end after the movie is played, select Save to save your movie. On the next screen, make sure you check the box in front of “Throw [...]

The last time I inserted the Dow’s intra-day chart, the benchmark dropped some 400 points. That’s was less than three weeks.
Today is another bloody day for stocks, under similar circumstance as 20 days ago:

Oil surged past $140 a barrel;
More writedowns are expected at financial firms Citigroup and Merrill Lynch;
Car makers are in deep trouble and [...]

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I have wanted to write a review of [...]

Early this month when I called T-Mobile to complain the 15 cents they charged me for sending me a text reminder, I also asked their early termination policy and was told that if I want to get out my contract before it expires, I will have to pay a $200 early termination fee, regardless how [...]

Last November, shortly after the Dow peaked at 14,280 points, I had a post on dividend yields of the largest banks in the country. At that time, I thought that, with many bank stocks yielding 6.0% or more, buying banks make some sense if the banks can keep their dividend payouts.
That was then and we [...]

Still don’t have a free iPod Nano?
KeyBank is offering a free 4GB iPod Nano when opening a free Student Checking Account. Key features of the checking account include:

No monthly maintenance fee or minimum balance requirement
No per-check fees or limits
Free KeyBank Debit Card or KeyBank ATM card with no retail transaction fees
Free use [...]

Got a lot of photos/musics/videos but run out of space to store them? Buy.com is currently having a hard drive blowout sale with a few interesting items. One deal that I found pretty good is Western Digital Elements 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $89.99 (no rebate required) with free shipping. Reviews of [...]