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The benefits of a money-market fund have faded as the coronavirus-caused recession has lowered interest rates.
With the return of low interest rates, savers must draw on some shrewd strategies and search for the best sources of higher yields on their savings. Here’s some help.
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Losses from safe deposit boxes are not uncommon for reasons ranging from bank mistakes to floods.
As interest rate increases have stalled, some money-market, savings, checking and CD accounts still offer attractive yields. Here are the best.
Lofty CD rates are sometimes just marketing ploys to lure you into buying high-commission financial products.
After more than a decade of extraordinarily low interest rates, savers are finally seeing yields perk up now.
Yields on money funds at mutual fund companies have risen as the Federal Reserve has boosted interest rates, and the trend is expected to continue.
There is no shortage of reasons for consumers to consider abandoning banks. And credit unions are attracting many of those disaffected customers.
No-strings free checking now is more than twice as common at large credit unions as at large banks. About 84%…
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