Do you drive an old, rusty and bumped car and you want to get rid of it, no matter what it takes? Well, don't! Cardoen offers you a recycling subsidy from at least €5000, variating in some cases to up to €15000, depending on the car you're willing to buy at Cardoen. The only condition required is that you can drive your car to your Cardoen dealer and that the buyer of the new car is the car's owner for at least six months.
With basic interests on an all time low, everybody is looking for better ways to invest their money without taking too many risks. A very popular alternative for the traditional savings account is the online savings account, but is the profit worth the change?
Since Tuesday the Bel-20 stock market has known the best increase since March this year with a total victory of 3.3%.
Belgium attracts increasingly less foreign investments, last year there was 33 percent less invested in Belgium than in 2007.
Societe Generale SA has entered into negotiations with Dexia to buy the Belgian-French financial services group's 20 percent stake in Credit du Nord, a deal they said they expect to complete before the end of the year. The book value of the stake in Credit du Nord was, at the end of June, 508 million euros, Dexia's annual report shows. Dexia wants to sell their stake in Credit du Nord because of the restructuring of the group activities. Société générale is also planning a raise of capital to pay off the French state's funding. 
From now on it's possible to use your mobile phone for paying bills, checking your account or even for transferring money to another account, just by having the right software on your cellphone.
After a period of non stop price increases, it seems that the era of deflation has arisen. Finally, those prices go down!
reated this store because the clients, who search on the Internet, only find limited, superannuated information by which the overview of the possibilities will disappear. In the store, clients find different stocks where they can find significant information about the services offered by Deutsche Bank.Finally, the clients, who are interested in these services of this bank, can contact an employee who will gives more practical and detailed information.
He hopes his words will help every customer who deals with fear for robbers.
As a result of the weak position of the French banks, they have to follow Sarkozy’s orders.
A few weeks ago, a hacker broke into the web sites of ING and Dexia. Luckily the data of clients of the bank have not been stolen, the hacker just wanted to point out that there were several weaknesses on both web sites. The hacker is known as the terror of the whole internet security world and this time the gift shop of ING and the web site with the price list of Dexia were his victims. Nevertheless, he had no bad intentions and the clients of ING and Dexia don’t have to worry about their bank accounts.
Black money on foreign bank accounts turns back to Belgium for fear of new international rules for banking secrecy and tax havens.
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Yardena Vaernewijck
Even though the use of a credit card is easy and common nowadays, it can be very expensive too. Most people say they use their credit card for emergencies only, but more and more it becomes a habit, in some cases a high-priced one. People have to pay a lot of interest when they overdraw their account or withdraw money from it, also the purchase of a credit card will cost some money. As you can see it’s important to think carefully before you get a credit card.
Religious orders lost more than 1.5 million euro owing to Lehman Brothers's bancruptcy. 'Broeders van de liefde' lost 500.000 euro, but fortunately, no development project is cancelled; 'every lost euro is one too much, but it is not a disaster'. The order did not take a major risk by investing in Lehman Brothers, the bank had a reliable reputation, it was a defensive investment.If you overdrawed your account during 2008 with more than 1250 euros, you were not alone; an enormous amount of 40% of the cardowners did. This is an increase by 10% compared to 2007. The economic downturn makes people are more and more likely to overdrawl, although the huge interests rates for these debts that even can make things worse. But even this has its advantage; the huge profits on this short term debts are a lucky coincidence for the bank sector in these hard days.
Ward Reynaert
http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/economie-financien/-Meer_Belgen_in_het_rood-.8239583-600.art
