Credit Matters

The current economic crisis is having a measurable affect on credit card companies, causing the industry as a whole to make changes as they struggle to maintain fiscal health and viability. What that means for the consumer is they will have to be vigilant in watching for how those changes will affect the cost of their credit.

According to a recent CNNMoney.com report, Capital One, a major credit card issuer, its number of loans that it doesn’t expect to be able to collect rose significantly during the month of January, a trend that most credit card issuers have been seeing. With personal bankruptcy on the rise, according to data from CardTrak.com, “rising 29% from one year ago and 11% sequentially,” it comes as no surprise that credit card issuers are seeing more delinquent accounts and feeling the pain of decreased revenue as consumers simply spend less.

U.S. Bank has unveiled the "AeroMexico Visa" and "AeroMexico Visa Signature". Customers can earn "AeroMexico Club Premier Miles" for all their purchases. Miles can be redeemed for travel from 16 U.S. airports served by AeroMexico to more than 40 destinations in Mexico as well as other popular international destinations.

For more information visit. CardTrak.com.

Oregon Lottery

The Oregon Lottery was enabled by an amendment to the Oregon Constitution approved by voters in the 1984 general election. The lottery commenced operations the following year, initially offering two types of games; scratch-it tickets, and a jackpot game called Megabucks. The lottery has since added numerous additional games, occasionally removing some which are not financially successful.

The following games are currently offered, or have been offered, by the lottery:

* Megabucks, an in-state jackpot game, first offered in 1985. Oregon Megabucks, in 1990, was the first US lottery game to give players a choice of lump sum or annuity, should they win the top prize.
* Scratch-it games, first offered in 1985. Numerous different games have been offered over the years.
* "Breakopen" games, first offered in 1987
* In 1988, Oregon joined the multi-state lottery game Lotto*America, which became Powerball in 1992. Four Powerball jackpots have been won in Oregon; a USD $38.4 million winner from Eugene in 1992; a USD $33.8 million winner from Beaverton in 1999; a family from Jacksonville won a then-record $340 million jackpot in 2005; and in March 2007 a man from Milwaukie, Oregon, won a $182.7 million jackpot. Powerball (whose cash option began in 1997) is offered by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL).
* In 1989, the lottery added Sports Action, a sports parlay game which enabled betting on NFL games. In 1989, NBA games were added (excluding games involving the Oregon-based Portland Trail Blazers); wagering on basketball was discontinued in 1990. In 2005, a bill was signed which ended football wagering at the conclusion of the 2006–2007 NFL season.
* A keno game was first offered in 1991.
* In 1992, the lottery begin offering Video Lottery games that included versions of draw poker.
* In 2005, "line" games were added to the product mix on its Video Lottery terminals.
* In 2006, the tic-tac-toe-style game called "Lucky Lines" was launched by the Lottery.

Oregon Lottery just announced the raffle results for its first ever St. Patrick's day raffle and the results are bellow.

The raffle results numbers of the One million St Patrick's day Oregon lottery are 246114.

There are also numerous 100 dollar prizes in Oregon lottery's St. Patrick's day raffle that is out of the scope of one story. The results can't simply fit in this story. One needs to check them at wwww.oregonlottery.org. No wonder the orginzers had said that St. Patrick's day Oregon Lottery raffle will have many great odds.

Oregon Lottery website showed that all the tickets were sold out.

Feeling lucky today check out their website http://www.oregonlottery.org

Information courtesy of wikipedia.org and huliq.com

nit tournament brackets 2009

The 72nd edition of the National Invitation Tournament was released today and the 32 team field features 22 teams with 20 or more wins and five automatic qualifiers.
First round action on campus sites tips on March 17 and 18 and features number one seed San Diego State out of the Mountain West hosting 21-9 finisher, Weber State; Kansas State, a Big 12 entry hosts 24-9 Illinois State out of the Missouri Valley; South Carolina , a back-to-back NIT champion (2005,2006) is hosting high scoring guard Stephen Curry along with his Davidson team while St. Mary's (CA) with Patrick Mills back from a broken hand, will host Washington State out of the Pac-10; automatic qualifier out of the Ohio Valley Conference, Tennessee - Martin, visits number one seed, Auburn, a 22-11 finisher out of the Southeastern Conference; Tulsa at 24-10 is the site for the game against Northwestern out of the Big Ten, while Big 12 competitor, Baylor, hosts Georgetown out of the Big East; Duquesne, at 21-12 will make the trip to the ACC's Virginia Tech.

commented C.M. Newton, chair of the NIT Selection Committee.

For the info, check out the NIT website.