The Sun's Financial Diary

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The Delta Reserve Credit Card, issued by American Express, is fit for Delta frequent flyers with good credit who want to earn miles with little effort. Delta Reserve Card benefits are highlighted as the following:

Annual First-Class companion certificate, which can be used for a First-Class or Coach-Class ticket!
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This weekend you and hundreds of millions of others made a list of New Year’s resolutions. On this list you vowed to eat better, exercise more, and spend less money. Ironically, the first thing that many people do after resolving to spend less money is … go out and spend a bunch of money to [...]

MyCorporation, an Intuit company which is also the maker of TurboTax and Quiken software, is offering FREE incorporation and LLC filings for business owners from now till July 31, 2010. When a similar free LLC filing offer was made in 2008, I took advantage of it and formed an LLC for my little online [...]

Full service broker Charles Schwab announced today (press release, PDF file) that it is reducing commission for online equity trades. Starting January 19th, Schwab customers will pay a flat $8.95 commission for each online stock trade, regardless the number of shares. The current commission schedule charges $12.95 per stock or ETF (exchange-traded fund) trade [...]

If you are looking for a better place to park your hard earned cash, you will probably be disappointed when you see current savings account interest rates. Since I started tracking savings account rates early last year, the general trend is down, coming all the way from 4% APY to mostly below 2% in just [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a holiday giveaway of 10 Flip video cameras provided by American Express. Now that the holiday is over, it’s time to pick up winners. Actually, I was a little late in selecting who to receive the cameras because it wasn’t as easy as I initially thought. Anyway, after [...]

As the new year begins, many investors are looking for two things. One is an indication as to what the year ahead will bring and the second is a competitive edge to help them achieve above average returns. One thing that seasoned investors look towards to get answers to both of these questions [...]

Blue Cash from American Express is designed for those with good or excellent credit who plan to take advantage of the cash back rewards program. In fact, the Blue Cash Card is one of the best cash back rewards credit cards.
Cardholders get unlimited cash back savings on eligible purchases with the Blue Cash from [...]

How time flies.
Now that 2009 is officially in the books, it’s time to look back last month and the whole last year to see where I was this time last year and where I am now.
Despite the 120-point drop of the Dow on the last trading day of the year, December 2009 turned out to [...]