More Money Thursday roundup: Credit card shenanigans & timing the market
Five personal finance highlights from around the Web:
- More credit card company shenanigans: One cardholder shares her experience with Citi: The bank will double her interest rate unless she transfers $5,000 of other debt onto her Citi credit card. [Consumerist]
- Thinking about regifting something this holiday season? Brad Tuttle has some rules on how to do it right. [It's Your Money]
- When it comes to car insurance, pricing is based on 10 factors that are out of your control. So it pays to shop around. [MintLife]
- Maybe you can time the market. A new study challenges the notion that it can't be done. [The Big Picture]
- Recent credit card reform has prompted the industry to enact the Safe Credit Revision Everyone Wins Undertaking, also known as S.C.R.E.W.U. Animator Mark Fiore explains it in the video below. [The Consumer Reporter]