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Capital One Venture Double Miles – 100,000 Miles Deal Or No Deal?
NRG Set To Ramp Solar Portfolio
Citi In Deal With IBM To Use Watson
Jon Corzine Meet Dean Tofteland
Commodities Rise On Greek PSI Hopes But ECB May Derail Sentiment
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Capital One Venture Double Miles – 100,000 Miles Deal Or No Deal?

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:54 AM PST

Capital One (NYSE:COF) has just launched an incredibly generous time-limited offer for its Capital One Venture credit card whereby you will get up to 100,000 miles on the purchases you made last year using any of your existing travel credit cards.

The miles you earn through this Double Miles Challenge can be redeemed for a variety of things, from travel to gift cards. This is a time-limited offer, as it will expire on May 1st or when Capital One has given out 1 billion miles, whichever happens … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

NRG Set To Ramp Solar Portfolio

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:35 AM PST

NRG Energy, Inc.'s (NYSE:NRG) subsidiary, NRG Solar LLC is on its way to expand its solar power generation portfolio. The company plans to develop projects, with a capacity of over 11 megawatt (MW), in collaboration with PsomasFMG LLC. The deal comprises a 7.3 MW project at William S. Hart School District in Santa Clarita, California and another project with a capacity of 3.3 MW in the County of Orange, California.
NRG will be in charge of the financial resources and raw materials, primarily … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Citi In Deal With IBM To Use Watson

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 05:21 AM PST

On Monday, Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) entered into an agreement with IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) to identify the uses of IBM Watson in banking services. As per the terms of the deal, Citi will scrutinize the process of IBM Watson and will work on some initiatives to improve customer interactions as well as simplify banking services for them.
Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is a computing system that competes with the ability of human beings to answer questions in natural language marked by … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Jon Corzine Meet Dean Tofteland

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 03:27 AM PST

"What they call 'unlawful commingling' on Wall Street is called 'stealing' back on Main Street."
A week ago, I welcomed highlighting the plight of an elderly couple ensnared in the morass that is the MF Global debacle. Helen Metchikoff's plea tugged at my heart as she wrote:

i am a 75 yr old grandmother my husband is 76 we take care of a brain injured 55 yr old son all of our investment money we saved in our lifetimes was invested in mf global for a monthly income to live out … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards

Commodities Rise On Greek PSI Hopes But ECB May Derail Sentiment

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 01:55 AM PST

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Crude Oil, Copper Rise with Risky Assets on Greek PSI Outcome Hopes
Gold and Silver Higher Amid Fading Safe-Haven Demand for US Dollar

Commodities are rising amid a recovery in risk appetite on hopes that Greece will be able to complete a bond swap by today's deadline, unlocking funding through its second EU/IMF bailout package. The scheme would have private investors exchange their bond holdings for new paper, accepting a loss of 70 percent on the initial investment.
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