Reading Time: < 1 minute But not all of them are equal. I am using the Citibank Dividend and the Discover Cashback card. The Citi card used to give 5% (now 2%) cash back for gas, grocery and 1% for everything else, with an annual limit of $300. The Discover card is more complicated. It has a “ladder” rate and does 5% promotion every
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s interesting to hear they decided to bring back the old name, the family sedan saved Ford during its difficult times in 1990s. Ford is in trouble again lately, due to its unattractive products and sky high labor cost. Will this name change save the company? Maybe not. But I think it will help them in some ways.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have used Turbo Tax online version for years and here are some of the tips. 1) Started early. It’s obvious if you are expecting refund. The eariler you file, the earlier you will get the refund. But even if you are expecting paying more, you can start early and mail the check on April 15
Reading Time: < 1 minute It seems the “irrational exuberrance” in Chinese domestic stock market finally got a reality check. Here is an excellent article from MarketWatch. Again quoted from the article: “There was a story on the front page of The Wall Street Journal about a group of little old ladies in the Midwest who soured on their boring
Reading Time: < 1 minute We all know it’s a fad. But here is the one million dollar question: when shall we take profit (or loss) for the Heelys stocks (HLYS)? From the IBD article today, it seems Heelys still got room to grow. The following is quoted from IBD: “For one thing, there’s still plenty of room to grow sales in parts
Reading Time: < 1 minute I saw this when I was doing some research on Amazon (AMZN). They are giving away $5 for overnight shipping. This is very ineresting because normally the online merchants will do free shipping. But Amazon is always innovative. On serious note, I think Amazon is interesting because people usually think Google is the king of
Reading Time: < 1 minute I mean the stocks, not the motel price. It’s being mentioned by IBD (Investors Business Daily) as No. 1 stock this Monday. IBD publishes 100 stocks every Monday based on its own rating system. Because a lot institutional investors trade stocks based on the IBD (whether there is merits or not is another story), the stock went
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s harder to get Turbo Tax discount these days. I used to get discount code in the email since I have been using it to prepare income tax in year 2001. But not lately. Here is a 15% off deal I found at ADP. (Update 29Jan07) Sun has an incredibly detailed list of tax software. Here is the link.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I made a mistake on the market cap of Home Inns (Rujia, just like home), in my previous post (corrected now). The correct number is stock price * number of shares, or $44.93 * (32,283,906 / 2 + 5,874,237 ) = $839,479,146 The number of shares 32,283,906 is from its Q3 2006 report. 5,874,237 is
Reading Time: < 1 minute Zhao Huan Yan, a Chinese blogger, has an excellent blog about the developments of hotels and motels in China. He put together lots of statistics (numbers) there. The Alexa ranking of hotels is interesting. Again don’t take this too seriously. Unfortunately (or fortunately for me), it’s all in Chinese.
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