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Are you ready for some delicious food stuffing on Thursday and some amazing Turkey Thursday deals at midnight? This year, many of your favorite stores are opening up their doors one day early with a huge selection of discounted electronics and other items to kick start the Thanksgiving weekend sales.

Walmart has already announced their Black Friday savings ads so consumers have plenty of time to prepare. Some of the top deals youll find include a 40-inch Emerson LCD TV for $248 and a Playstation 3 160GB Console with Bonus Games for only $199.

Other stores such as Best Buy and Target also plan to open at midnight on Turkey Thursday.

Shop to your hearts content and be rewarded for it with the Citi Simplicity(R) Card.

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Within weeks of opening our Investment Advisory business at Durig Capital,  two jet planes crashed into the twin towers in New York City and what was known as 9-11 shut down Wall Street for a week.  In hindsight, it may have been one of the worst times imaginable to open an investment firm.

Now, the concurrence of escalating debt issues and the inability of our US Government to solve a 15 trillion dollar problem, of Greece’s precipitous trek towards implosion as a result of lack of financial control, of a contagion concern for the entire Euro zone, and of many other threats to the global economy, appears to have striking similarities to the to the uncharted and uncertain times in which we started our Advisory firm.

What is truly remarkable today, is that within this paralyzing financial time for individuals and investment firms alike, and considering the background of when we started, in our 10th year here at Durig Capital with our global income leadership, we are seeing our most robust growth ever!  Cl

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Sterling is trading steadier this morning after stronger than expected retail sales numbers which came out at 0.6% against –0.2% expected. Rewinding back to yesterday’s Bank of England inflation report it came as no massive surprise to anyone that the general tone of Mervyn King was downbeat in terms of economic growth forecasts for 2012. There is also expectation that 2012 will see inflation fall, resulting in more demand for quantitative easing of around £100bn in February’s meeting. In a further deteriorating outlook for the UK economy yesterday’s unemployment data highlighted an increase in the number of people unemployed to 8.3% which contributed to sterling trading lower. This mor

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Today is a good day for Bank of Montreal (BMO) clients; BMO has announced that they have made significant enhancements to both its online and mobile banking functionality and services. These changes are aimed to improve the overall experience for BMO clients when they use BMO’s online banking and BMO’s mobile banking app.

The changes made today include a redesigned BMO Online Banking site, which like I mentioned, is aimed to improve the experience for online banking customers and enhanced BMO mobile banking features.

The redesigned BMO Online Banking site offers a new simplified layout, which is designed to give clients a more efficient online banking experience for all customers. It

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Can you manage your credit cards as deftly as high stakes Vegas dealers handle their playing cards? You can learn how. Credit cards are important financial instruments, but you can also look at them as kind of a game.

We all know people who use their cards irresponsibly to accumulate crushing debt, but if you play this game right, and stay out of debt, you can gain tremendous value from your cards. Here are six really cool tricks that have worked for me.

1. Reconsideration

You have good credit, but somehow your card application is rejected. You can either sit back and wonder about the factors that may have contributed to your denial, or you can take another shot at getting your card approved.

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