The Sun’s Financial Diary

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 [...]

Ever since I started blogging, like many fellow bloggers out there, the idea of monetization is always with me. Having tried many different ways (such as AdSense, Text Link, Ontok, PayPerPost, and YPN) to generate some side income while blogging, I found that by far the most successful one is with PayPerPost. No hassle, easy [...]

Got an email from Buy.com yesterday, saying that the $10 off with an order of $30 or more and Google Checkout has been extended till November 6th.
Here’s the 1GB flash drive that you can get for almost free. List price $30.95, price after rebate $15.95, price after Google Checkout $5.95. If you register your Citi [...]

Got an email from Buy.com yesterday, saying that the $10 off with an order of $30 or more and Google Checkout has been extended till November 6th. 
If you don't hate mail-in-rebate, you may find some good deals. For example, GolbGuru said the other day that he bought two 1GB flash drive for $15 a piece, [...]

Last night, when I finished the final calculation of our October net worth, I found that we had a net increase of $106,792 in the first 10 months of this year. That was really a surprise as I never expect we can do this well. So exactly where did those gains come from? Here's a [...]

I was among the bloggers mentioned in Flexo's "New Personal Finance Blogs." As a new comer, any mention is good, especially in this fast growing personal finance blog community. Since joining in August, I have learned a lot from fellow bloggers such as Flexo, Jim, Jonathan, 2million, JLP, FMF, Tricia, Madame X, and Single Ma, [...]

So you have been working hard throughout the year, brought down your company’s cost, helped increasing the sales, and completed every assignment on time with satisfactory quality. Your co-workers only have good words for you and your boss is very happy to have you in the group. What could all of these mean to you?
How [...]

 Summary:
October turned out to be another solid month as we saw an increase of $16,810.66 in our net worth. Excluding house and car related assets and liabilities, the total net worth at the end of October is $401,089, up 4.37% from September, thanks to a record-setting month of stock markets. The reason I excluded house [...]

In my previous post, I summarized the reasons I invested in ETFs (I currently have six PowerShares ETFs: PEY, PFM, PGJ, PHO, and PID), including

ETFs are priced as stocks;
Many ETFs are designed to track some popular indices;
The fees for sector ETFs are usually lower than their mutual fund counterparts;
ETFs can be purchased at any discount [...]

How about replaceing your existing house with one of these (from CNNMoney.com)?
 

Boulder, Colorado: $1.199M, 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 6387 sq ft.