Any healthy portfolio includes some cash investments. However, the high liquidity and safety of cash comes with a price: Low returns. Because the yield on cash is so low, it is up to you to make the most of it. And on...
ETrade advertised heavily in yesterday's Super Bowl. They came out with more of those talking baby commercials . Did you notice that they didn't mention ETrade Bank? As you can probably tell just by looking at ETrade Bank rates , all the focus is on...
Stonebridge Bank has a new 21-month CD special with a 2.30% APY. There's also a special 14-month CD with a 1.80% APY. Minimum deposit is $500. These are also available in an IRA. These rates are listed in the bank's Certificate of Deposit Page as of...
S-Bank is having a grand opening 9-month CD special with a very competitive rate of 2.33% APY. Minimum deposit is $1,000, and the maximum is $250,000. It's only available on February 12 and 13, 2010. This special doesn't appear to be listed at the...
Sovereign Bank is offering a checking and money market promotion in which you can earn a bonus of $150 and receive a 1.50% APY guarantee for 3 months in the money market account. The promo is scheduled to expire 3/13/2010. Here's the promo page link ....
This promotion is very similar to the bonus I posted on in this November 2009 post . One change is that there's no more Dining Dough Certificate (not much of a loss). Hat tip to the commenter who mentioned this extension. I also saw it mentioned in this...
HSBC Advance reduced its savings account rate from 1.35% to 1.20% APY. Refer to the bottom of this blog post for its recent rate history.
Here's a useful FW thread that's listing the hold times from banks. Hold time is the time it takes your bank to make checks and other deposits to your account available to you.
Another $50 Electric Orange Bonus was mentioned at this SD thread . The reference code is ELEC224 and the promo page is at www.ingdirect.com/zerofees/ . Offer expires on 2/15/10. ING Direct also has a $100 business savings account bonus. This was...