The Sun's Financial Diary

Wish You A Happy, Healthy, Safe, And Prosperous 2010, The Year of Tiger!

Just received an email offer from Intuit. You can get 50% off when purchasing Quicken 2010 and receive free bonus software valued up to $139.98. Products currently on sale (with brief description) and free bonus offers are:

Quicken Deluxe ($59.99, Promotion price $29.99): Makes budgeting and organizing your personal finances easy; avoid late fees and [...]

UPromise World MasterCard from Bank of America (used to be with Citibank) is one of those credit cards that let you invest cash backs earned from using the card for your everyday shopping. It’s also one of the credit cards that I use regularly because, with the UPromise card, I can put the rewards into [...]

If you are like me then you have thought long and hard about your 2010 budget … but you haven’t actually committed it to paper yet. Maybe you are one of the lucky few whose financial situation is left unchanged by 2009 and you can continue using your 2009 budget into 2010. But chances are, [...]

Usually, you can get Amazon Prime for free in the one-month trail period, which is a pretty good deal during the holiday shopping season as Amazon Prime will give free shipping on any order, regardless the total amount of the purchase. Now you can get Amazon Prime membership for free for 3 months. Here’s how [...]

Financially, the decade of the 2000s was one that most people would probably like to forget. We kicked off the decade with the bursting of the tech bubble and the events of 9/11. Along the way, we witnessed the housing market collapse and wrapped up the decade with the worst United States economic [...]

eToro provides a visual forex software with the trading tools you need at the click of a button. The eToro Forex Platform makes forex trading easy for beginners with online forex tutorials, trading guides, and a practice mode featuring live forex rates. eToro’s intuitive interface is also ideal for expert forex traders with all of [...]

Just when you’re probably ready to pack away the holiday stuff until next year, you begin to see it all on sale at stores everywhere. Resist the urge to look away and instead dive in for great savings opportunity for both next year’s holiday season as well as throughout the year. Here’s a brief list [...]

ChoiceTrade is an online discount broker which I first discussed in April when I compared commissions charged by discount brokers. Currently at $5 per stock trade with no limit on the size of the order, ChoiceTrade’s commission is almost at the same level as what TradeKing charges at $4.95 for stock trades, but significantly higher [...]

Are you using Chase Freedom Card? If you are, then you can earn 3% cash back for a limited time, but you have to enroll in the promotional program first.

From January to March 2010, Chase Freedom Card will offer cardholders 3% cash back when charging the card on Dining, Education, Childcare and Utilities, in addition [...]