The Sun’s Financial Diary

Are you looking for a business checking account?
If you are, then here’s a bonus offer from Chase.

From now till April 15, 2010, if you open a Chase Business Account and make a deposit of at least $1,000 within 30 days of opening the account, you can receive $100 bonus. It’s a pretty good deal since [...]

I opened an ING Direct Business Savings Account last September when they had a promotion for $50 bonus. As I have explained in the post, the reason that I wanted to have an interest-bearing savings account for my business is, of course, to earn interest for the money that I had in a business checking [...]

If you are already on Facebook, you can get a $5 eGift Card if you become a fan of Babies R Us. The offer is valid for today only.
Free eGift Card!* Become our Facebook Fan today and get a $5 eGift Card as our thanks to you! Use your eGift Card online or in-store at [...]

Do you want to have a TradeKing brokerage account?
If you do, then here’s a chance for you to receive $50 to get started.
Discount online broker TradeKing is celebrating Ben Franklin’s birthday this year by offer a $100 bonus for existing users for every new customer they refer to TradeKing. Since I am already using [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just received these promotional offers from MyPoints.

Open a ShareBuilder account before December 31st, 2009 with promotion code 50WCFA (the code should be entered already if you use that link) and receive $50 bonus after making $50 deposit before the deadline. Bonus will be credited 4 – 6 weeks after the deposit is made.
Get 30% off [...]

This is just a quick reminder that Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Plan $50 bonus promotion , which started in September, will end tomorrow, December 15th. If you still want to take advantage of this promotion and receive $50 free money to jump start your college savings, follow these steps to open an account and set up [...]

Why $64.62? Why not a round number like $25, $50 or $100?
According to Lending Club, the peer-to-peer lending operator, banks in U.S. made $6.462 billion last quarter. Apparently, that’s where the number is coming from. Of course, you can not getting that much as bonus. Still, $64.62 is quite a decent number.
From December 3 to [...]

Do you have a lot of coins? If you do, what do you do with them? Throw them away, or put them in your bank account?
Right now Coinstar is running a promotion for this coin counting machines with a free $10 Amazon.com gift card. If you cash in $40 or more in coins onto an [...]