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One United, the bank with the highest rate on the BestCashCow savings rate table is now also offering customers $50 cash when they open an account and do on the following: - set up a new recurring direct deposit, or - make recurring purchases with your Visa Debit card The offer is good until June 30, 2008. We don't know how long One United will maintain its high rate.

While Merck and Schering Plough have already fallen hard, they should both continue to fall for the forseeable future

You know, that almost every credit card issuer offers plastics for students. What are student credit cards? What are terms and conditions of applying for these? Read this article to know more!

Apple's immediate prognosis is scary, and I'm inclined to wait until it gets much lower.

It is quickly becoming an American pastime to bash Bernanke, but I think that he is acting responsibly.

Only time will tell whether he is guilty of securities fraud. But, the reality is that someone needs to be held responsible and this guy has set himself in the right space for it.

Ignore the media hype. This entire nominating process is over. It is now time to focus on the global economic meltdown and on football.

The Street journalist Doug Kass (he's also the founder and president of Seabreeze Partners Management, Inc.) says that financials are cheap and poised to rebound. He may be right but I'm not going close to them. I'm not convinced things aren't going to get worse before they get better.

Merck and Schering Plough has finally released the ENHANCE trial. The results were bad- and the cover up was worse. Look out for falling stocks. Timber....

Bank of America's acquisition of Countrywide is a good acquisition for the latter's employees (and for those who bought the latter's stock two days ago). It also stops the knock-on effects of the mortgage meltdown. But, it is potential disaster for Bank of America.

Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, and Merrill Lynch & Co, may be forced to write down an additional $34 billion in assets related to the subprime mortgage collapse. The irony is that an analyst from Goldman Sachs is making the prediction.