Archive for August, 2010
Prime Rate Website Offers Wall Street Journal Subscription Discounts
If you have any interest in a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, the financial paper of record for the United States, the U.S. Prime Rate has a great deal for those interested in subscribing. Here’s the press release they recently issued: PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire – September 29, 2009) – The United States Prime Rate website [...]
No Medical Exam Life Insurance Page Added to FedPrimeRate.com Website
The United States Prime Rate (FedPrimeRate.com) has added a new feature which discuses health insurance for those that do not want to take or would otherwise be unable to pass a medical exam. Here’s the press release:PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwire – June 20, 2010) – The United States Prime Rate website at www.FedPrimeRate.com now features an in [...]
FedPrimeRate.com Now Recommending Small Business Credit Cards
The team at FedPrimeRate.com has issued a press release on the status of small business credit cards, discussing how small business credit cards are changing given recent financial reform legislation and the status of bank foreclosures. Here’s the press release: PHILADEPLHIA, PA–(Marketwire – July 15, 2010) – The United States Prime Rate website at www.FedPrimeRate.com [...]
829 US Banks Still At Risk Says FDIC
The FDIC says that more than a tenth of banks in the United States are still at risk of failing even though the economy is showing improvement. Out of the 7,800 banks in the US, 829 were still having problems. Another 118 banks have failed already in 2010. For the first time in 38 years, [...]
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Ups Pricing for Xbox Subscriptions For First Time
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to raise its subscription prices for Xbox Live Gold online gaming in the United States as well as in three other countries starting November 1. Annual Gold memberships will increase from $49.99 to $59.99 and the three-month rates will rise from $19.99 to $24.99. One-month subscriptions will go up to [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Makes Emails a Priority
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is aiming to make checking your inbox easier. The company has added a new system that allows Google users to decide which incoming email is the most important and allows the ‘good’ emails to remain at the top of the pile while the not-so-important emails stay at the bottom. The Priority Inbox [...]
Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) Offering Common Cents at Walmart (NYSE: WMT)
Common Cents is now on sale in aisle 5. Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) will be selling its Common Cents Mobile phones in more than 1,200 Walmart (NYSE: WMT) stores around the country. Customers can now get a quality pay-as-you-go plan for cellular service without signing a long-term contract. The Common Cents Mobile brand is a pay-as-you-go [...]
Peer to Peer Lending Companies: P2P Lending Companies Doing Business in the U.S.
The number of peer to peer lending companies (p2p lending companies) operating in the United States has grown dramatically during the last several years and companies such as Lending Club and Prosper.com have gained a lot of media exposure and these companies are now originating tens of millions of dollars in new loan volume each [...]
LendingClub.com Review: A Full Review of LendingClub.com’s Peer to Peer Lending Services
Banks are cutting back on the amount of lending they are doing and borrowers are turning to peer to peer lending companies, such as LendingClub.com to get a personal loan from. Investors are also turning to LendingClub.com and Prosper.com as a new class of investment as the stock market sits in the doldrums. Here is [...]
Denied a Home Loan Modification? Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) Offers Alternative Mortgage Assistance Programs
As large numbers of financially strapped families are canceled from the Making Home Affordable loan trial modification programs, some begin looking for other ways to remain in their homes without having to foreclose or file bankruptcy. Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is a mortgage servicer who has provided assistance to struggling homeowners in the form of [...]
Peer to Peer Lending Sites: Companies Which Operate P2P Lending Websites
The peer to peer lending industry has grown dramatically during the last couple of years and the number of peer to peer lending sites (p2p lending sites) has grown dramatically. Companies such as Prosper.com and Lending Club have gained national media exposure and now these companies are originating tens of millions of dollars in new [...]
Target Provides Prevention and Treatment Headquarters For Flu Season (NYSE: TGT)
Target is a nationwide retailer that is offering expert advice, over the counter solutions and even flu vaccines at the same low price they offered last year – no appointment necessary. Target is helping their customers reach their well-being goals this year by serving as a prevention and treatment headquarters for this coming cold and [...]
Lending Club IRA: Learn About Lending Club’s Retirement Account Option
If you have an interest in peer to peer lending but aren’t excited about paying ordinary income tax on your earnings, you might want to consider Lending Club’s IRA option so that you can invest in peer-to-peer loans in a tax-advantaged manner. Here’s what you need to know before considering in investing in a Lending [...]
July Making Home Affordable Servicer Report Shows 100,413 Bank of America (NYSE: BOA) Homeowner Trial Modification’s Canceled
With so many homeowners in the country struggling to pay their mortgages, many turned to the Making Home Affordable Program. Servicers like Bank of America (NYSE: BOA) agree to modify homeowner mortgages in an effort to make their payments more affordable under a Home Loan Modification program. The home loan modification program has received much [...]
Citigroup (NYSE: C) Cancels Home Loan Trial Modifications
Homeowners still struggling to make mortgage payments are facing even more trouble as more home loan trial modifications are being canceled. According to a report from the Making Home Affordable program show that in July 2010, trial loan modification cancellations among Citigroup’s (NYSE: C) customers are on the increasing. 77,502 homeowners have had their trial [...]
Ford Windstar Recall Affects 575,000 Minivan Owners
Consumers who own older model Ford Windstar and live in cold climate parts of the nation need to pay attention to the latest recall in the automotive industry. Ford Motor Company has announced a recall involving the minivan. The Ford Windstar has recalled 575,000 Windstar minivans from model year 1998 through 2003. Customers in 21 [...]
Sam’s Club eValues Savings Event Starts September 1st (NYSE: WMT)
In this economy, consumers are looking for more ways than ever to save money and are seeking new ways to achieve this goal. As a result of smart consumerism, coupon redemption is up by 29 percent (the first increase in coupon savings since 1992). Still, shoppers are only redeeming less than one percent of the [...]
Financial Times Free Subscription: Get 4 Week Free Trial to the Financial Times
If you’re interested in business, financial and political news from a global perspective, consider taking advantage of the four-week Financial Times Free Subscription offer that the newspaper of record is offering to new customers. The Financial Times is offering new customers a risk-free four-week free trial. After the trial period, customers have the option of [...]
Bank of America (NYSE: BOA) Website Down for Customers
Customers of Bank of America (NYSE: BOA) were out of luck for about four hours yesterday when a glitch in the company’s website cause the online banking service to shut down. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, NC, did not give specifics about the problem, only citing a ‘temporary system’ error. The glitch only affected [...]
Lending Club Blog: Blogs that Cover Lending Club Online
Lending Club is an increasingly popular place for personal financiers that want to diversify to make an investment. The service allows people to loan money to borrows through their website and earn a rate of return on their money. A number of personal finance bloggers have even started sharing about their own Lending Club experiences [...]
Audible Books: Get Started with Audiobooks via Audible.com
Audio books have provided entertainment to commuters, travelers and those at the gym for decades now, but the distribution of audiobooks has changed dramatically in the last five years thanks to digital music players and Audible.com, the premier source of audible books (audio books), on the web. Audible’s library is the largest audio book repository [...]
Lending Club, Prosper and Other Companies: How Peer to Peer Lending Marketplaces Work
Lending Club, Prosper and a few smaller players are part of a fledgling industry known as peer to peer lending, in which companies setup marketplaces so that their users can make loans to one-another, side-stepping banks from the lending process. Typically peer to peer lending companies such as Lending Club, Prosper and others start out [...]
Audible Managers: Way to Manage Your Audible.com Audio Books
If you are a subscriber of Audible.com or are interested in getting audio books online, you’re going to need one of the Audible download managers to download your audio books. There are currently a number of ways that users can download their purchased audio books for enjoyment, including clients for the Mac, PC and various [...]
GE Foundation Gives $2 Million Grant as Part of Developing Health Program (NYSE: GE)
GE Foundation announced that they are giving a $2 million grant to Louisiana Public Health Institute. This is a part of GE’s Developing Health program and will underwrite a program that is being led by School Health Connection located in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. This will provide students with an increased access to healthcare at school [...]
Ford Accelerates Electric Vehicle Battery Testing (NYSE: F)
Ford Motor Company is using the Internet and wireless technology to speed up testing and refinement of advanced lithium-ion battery systems which will be powering their upcoming plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles. Ford is making rapid progress due to their two monitoring methods which allow their engineers to collect real-time performance data from the batteries [...]
Garmin users: Get a Free Audiobook from Audible with the “Audible.com/Garmin” Deal.
Audible.com, a provider of downloadable audio books, has begun offering a campaign to Garmin users in which users of Garmin devices can receive a free audio book and up to thirty days of free service at Audible.com/Garmin. Users that take advantage of the offer will receive a 14 day free subscription to Audible‘s “Gold Package” [...]
Lending Club Bonus: How to Get a Bonus on Future Lending Club Investments
Lending Club, a company which operates a peer to peer lending market place, is becoming an increasingly popular alternative investment option for investors that aren’t happy with the volatility of the stock market. From time to time, you can also get a Lending Club Bonus when you deposit additional funds into your account to make [...]
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