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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
Transfer Fund to Scottrade Brokerage Account Is Easy
The stock is down pretty badly so far today. For some investors, this is an opportunity to buy stocks at a better price, given that the market was down four out of the six trading sessions. Suppose that you see a stock that you have wanted to buy and today it finally reaches the price [...]
Join Prosper, Get $50 Free Money to Start Lending
Prosper, one of the earliest players in peer-to-peer lending, was quite last year and early this year because it failed to meet regulatory requirements. It wasn’t allowed to keep operating until it was cleared by the SEC. Its chief rival Lending Club, on the other hand, was quick to get the OK from the regulator [...]
Is Ally Bank in Trouble?
The bank itself may be not, but its parent, GMAC Financial Services, is certainly in a situation no bank wants to be in.
News came out this morning that GMAC, the recipient of billions of dollars of taxpayer money since last December, is going back to the government to ask for more money. That would be [...]
ING Direct Business Savings Account Reference Code for $25 Bonus
I took advantage of an early bonus offer for ING Direct Business Savings Account last month and got an account for myself plus $50 bonus from the one-time offer What I like about the account is not only the decent yield (currently at 1.15% APY) of the Business Savings Account, but also the [...]
Lending Club Loan Default and Credit Score and Debt-to-Income Ratio
In my post over the weekend, I took a quick look at Lending Club’s new statistics page. The improved web page offers potential lenders a range of tools to evaluate the overall performance and risk of lending money through Lending Club. In addition to statistics provided by LC, you can also download raw data from [...]
Scottrade Trading Platform Review
Sottrade is a online discount stock broker which offers investors, from big to small, a wide range of products and trading tools at a competitive price.
One of the online discount stock brokers I use very actively is Scottrade. When I first selected Scottrade as my broker 7 years, I didn’t not much about it other [...]
American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card 15,000 Points Promotion
Now you can earn Membership Rewards Points even faster with the American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card. The new card allows you to buy the things you need and get rewarded with the things you want at the same time.
Membership Rewards
Here’s how it works. With the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card, you can earn points [...]
Lending Club’s New Statistics Page Looks Good
One of the biggest challenges when investing through social lending platforms such as Lending Club is evaluating loans to minimize, but not totally avoid, risks involved in lending money to total strangers. It’s not an easy task because, though Lending Club does its job to collect and verify the data, there’s just some much information [...]
Wokai: Support Chinese Small Businesses through Microfinancing
I recently came across a website called Wokai.org. You may not familiar with the name (it’s the first time I knew it as well), but what they are doing shouldn’t be strange to you, if you know what Kiva is.
That’s right. Wokai is a charitable organization that microfinances small businesses, just like what they do [...]
2010 Quicken Deluxe Giveaway
Are you using Quicken to manage your money?
After Microsoft pulled the plug on MS Money in the summer, Intuit’s Quicken is left as the only PC based personal finance software that helps people track their spending and manage their investments (of course, Quicken also does other things such as budgeting), unless you want to use [...]
