The Sun's Financial Diary

Apparently, chocolate milk not only tastes good, it can also speed up your recovery from strenuous exercises, at least that the conclusion of a study conducted by some scientists at Indiana University (the study, however, was supported in part by Dairy and Nutrition Council).
According to AP Health news, athletes who drank chocolate milk had [...]

If you are looking for software/spreadsheet to track your spending, Jonathan has a list of tools you can try for free.
Thinking about saving money on your lunch? What else could be better than making your own food under more light?
As 2006 approaches its final month, you may want to maximize your 2006 IRA contributions (though [...]

Some you may have already known and used, some may be new, but here's a list of 20 websits where you can find online coupons and bargains (including Black Friday 2006 sales) from Kiplinger. I am a regular visitor at SleakDeals.net, FatWallet.com, Dealsea.com, Ableshoppers.com, and DealUniversity.com.

When MBNA and Bank of America merged their online access last month, my MBNA AAA credit card has been moved to BoA and I can access the credit card using the same login as my BoA bank account. But my Fidelity 529 College Rewards card, which was also issued by MBNA was left out. What [...]

If you are looking for a booster for your 802.11b/g wireless router, an antenna may meet your needs. Now Buy.com has a D-Link 7DBI Omni-Directional Indoor Antenna [Buy.com affiliate] that works for both 802.11b and g wireless router. The listed price is $34.98. After $20 MIR and $10 Google Checkout coupon, the actually cost for [...]

And the suspension is indeed related to the acquisition of 20% stake of Guangdong Development Bank. According to announcement, China Life will pay about $730 million in cash for the acquisition. Trading of LFC will resume tomorrow at 9:30 am in NYSE.
The announcement can be found here. 

Citigroup announced today that it won a $3.1 billion bid to take control of Guangdong Development Bank, a regional bank with more than 500 branches in south and east China. A consortium led by Citigroup, also including IBM, China Life Insurance, China's State Grid Corp, CITIC Trust, and PuHua Investment, will take 85.6% percent of [...]

If you have read Flexo's post "You, Inc.: How to Be the CFO of Your Own Life" at Get Rich Slowly yesterday, you knew what he meant of being the CFO of his own life: managing everything financial himself. Since I started reading posts on Pfblogs.org in August, I noticed from their posts (monthly expenses [...]

It seems  that ShareBuilder.com is pushing for some holiday sales. Today, I got another email from ShareBuilder with a $50 bonus offer to open a new account with them. Since the offer is delivered via the email address I registered with them, I assume that they still allow me to have mutiple accounts, though some [...]

Here's a question: If you are given $10,000, would you rather take it now or a year from now?
Of course everybody will choose to put the money in the pocket right away instead of waiting another year and the reasons are simple: 1) If the money will be sitting somewhere other than high yield savings [...]