Nov 27
It’s a sad commentary on human nature that there are so many ways that people can get ripped off these days. The worst part, is that many of the rip offs come in the form of legitimate businesses, products or
opportunities that, while not illegal, border on immoral or unethical. There can’t be enough regulations or consumer police to protect everyone from scams or rip-offs (and, do we really want more regulations or consumer police?)
So it is up to all consumers to educate themselves, do the due diligence and use their common sense when something looks too good to be true, especially in the area of financial products and services. Unfortunately the list of financial rip-offs is long. We
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Nov 20
The turbulence led to 11 IPOs being postponed in a single week, the most since the dotcom bubble burst in 2001.
“At the close of the second quarter, we were optimistic that the proceeds from IPOs [in the US] completed in the second half of the year would lead 2011 to eclipse the full-year 2010 proceeds of $39 billion,” says Henri Leveque, leader of consultancy PwC’s capital markets and accounting advisory practice. “However, disruptions in the overall market and a variety of recent macroeconomic events may present considerable challenges for companies looking to execute an IPO in the coming months.”
Some 79 IPOs generating $24.3 billion in proceeds were completed in the US market in the six months ended June 30, 2011—more than double the amount raised in the same period a year earlier. The US IPO marke
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Tags: Ipos
Nov 19
The financial world will always be the home of the new schemes and procedures that would try to make the existing financial processes more reliable and relatively better. In the financial field of credit worthiness ratings the three major reporting bureaus, which are Experian, Equifax and Trans Union, have devised a new way of indicating changes within the client pools of their paying clients. Credit triggers was the name coined to this new indicating system. It is named as so because of its general feature of predicting future changes with borrowers and future borrowers and immediate reporting.
The reporting agencies gave the same similar procedures available even a few years ago.
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Nov 17
A new report released in November, 2011, suggests banks and credit card companies are courting those with less than perfect scores. This report shows that consumers with combined scores of less than 700 were now more likely to receive approval for a credit card; in fact, the number of folks who fit these criteria and who have received a credit card was up 23% from this time last year.
The study reveals more, too. The total numbers between third quarter 2010 and third quarter 2011 are almost identical, which suggests its those consumers who wouldnt have qualified a year ago are the very ones who are moving the sector forward.
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Tags: Card, Credit Card
Nov 16
In most cases you can sign up for no credit auto loans after completing a bankruptcy
What we know
Many of the questions we get asked have to do with qualifying for horrible credit auto loans following a personal bankruptcy.
Weve familiar with this situation after twenty years of involvement in bad credit car sales here at Auto Credit Express.
To help explain bad credit car loans we even created a web site so that applicants can learn about such topics as tote the note dealers and repossession as well as todays issue, bad credit auto loans after bankruptcy.
How we can help
We can assist you in locating a dealer that offers no credit auto loans. In fact, its a great way to establish your car credit.
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Tags: Bankruptcy
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