Friday, December 3, 2010

CD rates fall to all-time lows | Prism Money

CD rates fall to all-time lows | Prism Money
Interest rates on bank certificates of deposit are at their lowest levels ever, Market Rates Insight reports. “For the first time since 1952, the average rate for all CDs dipped below 1 percent,” Dan Geller, the firm’s executive vice president, told Reuters. 
That’s bad news for savers, but, as Geller points out, “what’s the alternative?”
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