The Sun's Financial Diary

Chase Freedom card is offering $10 bonus for every $150 spend commuting in New York City till March 31, 2008. Eligible purchases include MatroCard fees and NYC Yellow cab fares. To participate, you have to register your Freedom card at Chase Commuter Cash. According to the promotion, rewards earned will be deposited into your card [...]

I want to thank those who used my referrals to sign up their brokerage and bank accounts in January! Tonight, I sent out several $20 Amazon.com gift cards to readers who responded to the referral invitations and opened and funded their Zecco and TradeKing accounts. The account opening process has been completed and I have [...]

Do you a lot of shopping online? If you do, do you use any portal to earn rebates? I do and one of the portals I use quite often is Ebates.com. So far I have earned a total of $60.46 rebates. Not a lot, but still good. A couple of days ago I got an [...]

Here are a couple of bonus offers I received last week. Feel free to use it if you can. If you want to open an ING Direct Orange Savings account, I have a reference code for $25 bonus from the March issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. ING Direct lowered its interest rate again last [...]

The $100 bonus offer from OptionsXpress is back! To get the bonus, $500 must be deposited into the account by March 31, 2008. I opened an account when the offer was around before the new year. Now I am just waiting for the free money Meanwhile, TradeKing is also giving $100 bonus for new accounts [...]

More bonus for using my referral links! I have accounts with many banks, brokers, and online shopping rewards sites, etc., and some of them offer benefits for referring a new customer. If you need a referral for the following programs, please use the contact form to send me an email with a valid email address [...]

Spotted this deal on FatWallet.com and it seems to be an easy money just for the holiday If you open an OptionsXpress account and fund it with at least $500 before December 31st, they will give you a $100 bonus. From the offer page In order to qualify for the $100 offer, account application must [...]

from November 1 to December 31, 2007 at participating locations. Discover Card is now having a Holiday Mall promotion at 160 participating shopping centers across the country. The promotion will offer a $20 gift card for every $200 spent on Discover cards till the end of the year. The maximum number of gift cards one [...]