Archive for December, 2009

Card Debt Options – Will Switching to a Fixed Rate Credit Card Help?

Let us get one thing straight- A fixed rate credit card does not mean that interest rates charged on the card will remain fixed forever. Rather, the rate is fixed to an index. Once the index changes, the rate will also change. The duration and pattern of change varies as compared to variable interest rate [...]

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British Airways credit card promotional offer

What’s the deal?
British Airways has a promotion to entice people to sign up for a new Visa Signature affinity credit card. First-time cardholders with new accounts will earn 50,000 miles with their first purchase and another 50,000 miles for spending $2,000 in the first three months after the account is opened.
That’s 100,000 miles, enough [...]

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Cash is king for holiday shoppers

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Cash was king for consumers who shopped over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to survey results released on Sunday, and that factor could have cost retailers additional sales.
Only 26 percent of people who shopped over the weekend said they used credit cards for their purchases, according to a poll conducted for Reuters by [...]

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