Personal finance
EDU Jumped 39% In First Day Of Trading
Priced at $15, EDU opened at $22 in its first day of trading on Thursday with more 6 million shares traded. The $15 price is above the initial range of $11 – $13.
Recent Chinese IPO stocks, such as BIDU and GRRF, traded very well in the first several days after listing. However, the frenzy faded [...]
Spam Email Dated June 2002
My Yahoo email account indicated that I had a new email, but I just couldn’t find anything new after going through the first 50 emails. Where’s it?
Well, I eventually found it, but not until I almost reached the end of my Inbox folder. It was an email dated June 3, 2002.
What are they trying to [...]
What’s Your Nest Egg Score?
Following a link in Flexo’s recent post, I arrived at A.G. Edwards’ Nest Egg Score page. I am not how crediable the score is, thought A. G. Edwards claimes that it is “designed to be a comprehensive indicator of how well U.S. households are doing at building personal wealth.” Out of curiosity, I took the [...]
Do You Have A Hot Job?
Beside being a blogger (if that’s what you do to make a living), do you have a hot job? Kiplinger’s Personal Finance today runs a list of hot jobs and the defination of “hot” is the job’s expected growth rate for a ten year period from 2004 to 2014.
1. Network systems and data communications analyst [...]
If Everybody Uses Firefox
and installs the Adblock extension, will Google AdSense make no sense?
When Adblock is disabled.
When Adblock is enabled. How neat is that!
Categories: Weblog, General,
Technorati tags:AdSense, Advertising, Weblog
Aetna Dropped Our Hospital
My wife is three-month pregnant and we went to our hospital this afternoon for a scheduled ultrasound screening. We were excited to have a chance to see the baby again, however, the news we got before the procedure almost took the anticipation away: Starting from Sept. 19th, our hospital will no longer be in Aetna’s [...]
Monthly Saving/Investing Schedule
Every month, I put some money in our savings and investment accounts and I do it on fixed dates. Yes, I am not trying to time the market, but rather making sure that saving/investing comes first.
Both my wife and I get our paychecks every two weeks, and most of bills (mortgage, credit cards, phones, and [...]
New Promotion From Discover Card
Time to put your Discover card in use!
Discover card has a new promotion from October to December for 5% cashback on restaurants and movies (good for both tickets and rentals).
Making the deal more attractive, you can also earn 5% cashback from the following retailers: (both online and in-store):
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Circuit City
Crutchfield
Napster
Waldenbooks
The promotion, however, has a [...]
Chase 0% Balance Transfer Charges Follow Up
So I called Chase this morning before I came to work about the finance charges associated with the 0% balance transfer I made back in July. The $40.49 charge was under the “Periodic Rate� category and my main questions to the CSR were what is periodic rate and why was I charged for 0% balance [...]
A Little Celebration Of My Own
I was notified last week that my biography has been included in the 2007 edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
It feels good to be recoginzed.
Categories: General
