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Savings and CD rates dropped last week while mortgage rates rose, reflecting the steepening of the Treasury yield curve. The Fed continues to hold short and medium term rates low and longer-term rates are responding to inflation fears.
Read →Savings rates stayed at the 52-week low last week, holding steady at 1.61% APY. One year CD rates took the steepest dropped by 1 basis point to a new BestCashCow low of 2.00% APY. According to the BestCashCow mortgage rate tables, the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage is below 5% at 4.957%. The fifteen-year fixed-rate mortgage average is 4.4%.
Read →Savings rates hit a new 52-week low last week, falling by 1 basis point from 1.62% APY to 1.61% APY. One year CD rates took the steepest drop, falling by 7 basis points to 2.01% APY. Both three year and five year CD rates fell slighly, by 3 and 2 basis points respectively. The slow, painful downward trend continues.
Read →CD and savings rates showed virtually no movement over the past week. Mortgage rates have decended over the past three weeks, touching lows not seen since last April when the Fed began buying up mortgage backed debt.
Read →SFGI Direct, a division of Summit Community Bank is offering a high interest savings accoung paying 2.5% APY. That's currently the best savings rate on the BestCashCow rate tables.
Read →Capital One Direct Banking is offering another $50 bonus to open a savings account or money market account online. To get the bonus you need to open an account and fund it with at least $10,000 by 11/25/2009.
Read →Is the economy headed for a recovery or are we getting ready to sink back into recession? Is the stock market rise for real? Since reaching a bottom of 6,448 in March the market has risen to nearly 10,000 in late September (9,820). Despite the markets rise, bond yields have remained flat.
Read →There were two pieces of information this week that I found quite interesting. The first is an article that explores how bond prices are making the case for inflation or deflation. According to the original article posted on Marketwatch, bond prices seem to indicate that inflation is a greater probabiliy than deflation.
Read →Whether you have retired or just switching jobs, this article is for you. In this first part we will go over employee stock options and what to do with them. In the second installment we will go over your 401k, your IRA, and what to do about them. Happy investing
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