The Sun's Financial Diary

OptionsHouse is one of the discount brokers that I have an account with.
I opened the account in June when I found that it charges only $2.95 per stock trade, much less than other brokers I use (Zecco offers free trade, but the requirement is rather high for small investors). However, it disappointed me when I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The deal isn’t as good as what the card used to offer, but is still quite decent, if you are shopping for a new credit card that can actually becomes your everyday card.
Chase Freedom Card is having a promotion which will give new cardholder $50 bonus after the first purchase. I got the card back [...]

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 [...]

Capital One Direct is offering $25 bonus for its Online Savings Account and Money Market Account.
I opened a Capital One Savings Account last year when the rate was much higher and much attractive than the current rate of 1.60% APY. To give you an idea of where Capital One is in terms of rate, take [...]

Citi PremierPass Card, one of the best travel reward credit cards, is running a promotion to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the introduction of the card (I had the PremierPass for nearly 3 years).
From now till December 31, 2009, card members can earn up to 1,500 ThankYou points by simply using the card to make [...]

It was only a month ago when TradeKing celebrated the National Friendship Day with a promotion that gave a $50 bonus to people who opened a new account through a reference from an existing customer. Now the online discount broker is bringing back the popular promotion for the month of October and November.
If you want [...]

Early this month, Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 College Savings Plan announced a promotion which gives each new plan participant $25 bonus for just opening an account. Yesterday, I got an email from CollegeAdvantage with a sweetened deal: For a limited time, each new customer will get another $25 bonus on top of the existing $25 referral [...]

If you missed CollegeAdvantage’s bonus offer early this year, you can get it now.
Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan, which was named by Morningstar one of the best college savings plans in April,  is running the promotion program again. If you are interested in opening a 529 account with CollegeAdvantage and receiving the bonus (and make [...]