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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 [...]
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 [...]
2010 401(k) Contribution Limit Won’t Be Adjusted
If you are thinking of putting aside a little more for your retirement next year, you won’t get any help from the government because the 2010 401(k) contribution limit will remain at the same level as this year at $16,500 (the catch-up limit for workers 50 years old and order will also be the same [...]
Now We Really Sold Our House
It’s official. The house in New Jersey where we called home for more than five years is no longer our property.
Four months after we put the house on the market, the sale of the house was officially closed today. Though we haven’t got the money yet, all the paperwork are signed and the keys of [...]
Firstrade Triple-Bonus Promotion
Online discount stock brokers Firstrade is having a triple sign-up bonus promotion. Open an account with Firstrade between now and December 31, 2009, and fund the new account, individual, joint, or IRA account, within 30 days after the account is opened to
Receive 100 commission-free trades for funds of $2,000 or more
Receive 100 commission-free [...]
Buy Quicken 2010 and Get Quicken WillMaker Free
Early this week, Intuit, maker of the best-selling tax preparation software TurboTax, released the 2010 version of Quicken, another popular product that helps users tracking their money and investments and making budget. According to Intuit, the latest version of Quicken comes with a long list of new and improved features such as:
By showing how [...]
Dow Closed Above 10,000 for First Time in a Year – Chart of the Day
It was October 3, 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 10,000 level at 10,325.38. In the following five trading sessions, the widely watched index lost 1874.19, closing at 8,451.19 on October 10, 2008. Actually, October 3, 2008 was right in the middle of a steep plunge of the Dow. The index [...]
