Finger length may predict financial success

January 13, 2009 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer

(AP) -- The length of a man's ring finger may predict his success as a financial trader. Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England report that men with longer ring fingers, compared to their index fingers, tended to be more successful in the frantic high-frequency trading in the London financial district.



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Well I don%u2019t believe on those sayings, because the success of a person depends on his or her attitudes. Because even you have

a very long finger if you are a lazy person you will never become successful in your life.

Essential to financial success in the modern world, for good or ill, is building credit. A payday loan is one of the few, and

they are few, financial services that does not require a credit check. That said, most other financial services do, and the

credit bureau that they go to, or combination of them, reports your credit score to them. What a credit bureau does is they

compile all the information that would pertain to your credit, like what accounts you have open, what late payments you've

made, balances %u2013 they also report your employment information, car insurance, you name it. Once the information is compiled,

they run it through a mathematical algorithm that determines your score, which may mean that you do not have good credit, but

they report that score to the agency that requested it. What gets looked at in determining your score is astounding. You can

read the article yourself entitled "Credit: Part I | Financial Tips from Your Payday Loan Source" on the payday

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