The Sun's Financial Diary

Got this in the email.
Use this link to open a Citibank e-Savings account (which currently pays 5.00% APY) before December 31, 2006 and get $25 in your account within 90 days. The fine print in the email says:
$25 offer is only available for first-time Citibank deposit (checking or savings product) account customers, and will be [...]

If it wasn’t the rate increase announcement from ING yesterday, I probably won’t check my INGDirect account any time soon as ING is no longer my primary savings account and I only have about $500 with them now. However, when I logged in last night, I noticed something new: the ING Direct Electric Orange Checking [...]

Got this email this morning from Commission Junction that INGDirect has increased the rate of its Orange Savings Account to 4.50% APY. I then checked with INGDirect and found that newest rate has also appeared on their website.
It seems that ING finally decided to play some catch up, while other popular internet banks hold their [...]

The lastest 4-Week T-bill rate from last Tuesday's auction is 5.176%, already surpassing interest rates offered from some popular banks, such as EmigrantDirect and HSBC, which earn you 5.05% APY.

If you want to get some other alternatives for your cash reserve, you may want to consider E-Loan, which has a very appealing 5.50% APY and [...]

Early this month (actually should be last month), I posted an entry on how to get $60 bonus for opening INGDirect accounts and provided a reference code CK921/gheaeriz (valid till the end of this year) which I received in the mail. In that post, I said that any one who uses the code can get [...]

I got this offer from Citibank today and the condition for the $100 bonus include:

Apply online for both an e-Savings account with a 5.00% APY and a regular checking account in the EZ Checking package.
EZ Checking account requires a minimum balance of $1500.
Pay 2 bills a month for a year at citibankonline.com.

The rate they offer [...]

A surprise was in the mail last night: a gift from EmigrantDirect.
Nothing big or fancy, but I take it as a gesture from EmigrantDirect of being their customer for the past year.
So what's the gift? It is a small writing pad with my name printed on every page, the kind of gift that you [...]

Have an equity account and want some free trade?
Bank of America is now offering $0 equity trade for customers with $25,000 or more in all asset across BoA deposit accounts, including checking, savings, and CDs.
Offer available with an individual or joint Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. (BAI) Self-Directed Brokerage account. If you have a [...]

Update: If you are looking for reference codes to open an ING Direct account, check out the master list of ING Direct $25 bonus referral links.  If you open an ING Direct Savings account with any of links and make a deposit of at least $250, you will receive a $25 bonus and the referrer, [...]

Yesterday, I heard that Emigrant Direct is to lower its savings rate. It was kind of surprise because I also have an account with Emigrant Direct and I didn’t get any notice about their rate change. Last night when I logged into my account in preparation of this month’s balance sheet, the savings rate was [...]