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CitiBusiness Review: A Credit Card for Small Businesses

October 18, 2011
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The CitiBusiness World MasterCard offers a rewards program and credit line for small business owners, especially those in the early stages of rounding up the staplers and coffeemakers essential to any successful office. If you’re gathering up the cubicle necessities, the CitiBusiness card can help. Introductions and incentives Purchases with the CitiBusiness will earn you [...]

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Discover Doubles Amazon Rewards

October 12, 2011
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Discover just announced an increased rewards rate at Amazon.com and seems pretty excited about it. While the upgrade is definitely a plus for Discover card holders, Discover still lags behind others in giving rewards for Amazon shopping. Discovering the Amazon The Discover More’s claim to fame is its 5% cash back rate in rotating categories. [...]

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Citi ThankYou Preferred Offers 50,000-Point Bonus, the Best Promo of the No-Fee Cards

September 22, 2011
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Update October 25th, 2011: The ThankYou Preferred 50,000 ThankYou Point bonus offer has now expired, but you can still get those 50k points with the ThankYou Premier, where they’ll be worth $665 in airfare. And now for another crazy promo: the Citi ThankYou Preferred is offering 50,000 ThankYou Points, worth $500 of gift cards, vaulting [...]

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NerdWallet’s Best Balance Transfer Credit Cards, Fall 2011 Edition

September 15, 2011
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A balance transfer credit card is a great way to consolidate your debts and pay them down interest-free for a period of time. For example, let’s say you have $3,000 of credit card debt on 3 different cards that accrues 15% interest. If you transferred that debt to a balance transfer credit card that gave [...]

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The Best Citicards of 2011

September 9, 2011
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When it comes to rewards and balance transfers, Citicards are some of the best. Citi’s known for boasting some of the longest 0% intro APR periods, rewards on balance transfer cards, and one of the best credit cards for students. But with so many cards to choose from, deciding which card is best for you [...]

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Citi Diamond Preferred: Longest Balance Transfer Promo Out There

August 24, 2011
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If you want a great balance transfer deal, the Citi Diamond Preferred card should be high on your list. With an introductory rate of 0% interest on transfers for 18 months, this card offers just about the longest balance transfer deal out there. In addition, the Citi Diamond Preferred offers a lower-than- average transfer fee, [...]

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Citi Dividend Platinum and Citi Forward for College Students Back-to-School Promo

July 25, 2011
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Citi is no longer offering back-to-school promotions on two of its best student credit cards, the [nw:card_name 4045] and the [nw:card_name 4043]. These offers are expired, but will possibly be back next year in time for the next school year. Meanwhile, you can still get these offers, but without the sign up cash back bonus. [...]

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NEW Citi Simplicity Card Offers 0% Interest, No Late Fees, No Penalty APRs

June 9, 2011
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Citibank seems to be on a mission to be named 2011′s King of Low Interest Credit Cards. Every few weeks it seems like we come across an announcement for a new and improved no-interest offer from them, with the latest being the Citi Simplicity card (announced today). A quick perusal of their current card lineup [...]

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Revamped Citi ThankYou Program: Not Much Changes

March 31, 2011
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There was a big fuss about some changes made to the Citi ThankYou Points program. The press releases speak breathlessly about their new travel center, new bonus rewards stores, and new redemption partnerships. But at the end of the day, the “new ThankYou Rewards” is no more valuable to cardholders than the old, and seems more [...]

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Don’t Settle for 30,000 AA Miles

March 22, 2011
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The Citibank AAdvantage deal you’ll see most widely around the internet (like the one below) is for 30,000 American Airlines miles. But the little secret that Citi and AA don’t want you to know is that if your credit is good enough, you can do a lot better and score up to 75,000 AA miles [...]

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