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If you have a Citibank Checking or Savings account, be prepared to pay a monthly fee beginning February 1, 2010. While monthly fees used to be waived if you had a minimum balance, or if you made bill payments from your account, those days are soon over. However, there is still one and only one [...]
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Updated List of No Penalty CD Rates
I can still remember earning double-digit returns on CDs in the early 1980s. I had saved a little money and was locking it away in 6-month CDs earning 12% or more. Of course, inflation was raging, and the interest rates on home mortgages had gone through the [...]
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Amex has recently entered the market of online banking with the launch of the American Express Bank, FSB. The Amex Bank is an FDIC insured online bank that offers two savings products, high yield certificates of deposit of varying terms and a high yield savings account. While Amex has offered banking products on [...]
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Review of Discover Bank
As regular readers of the Dough Roller know, I use the Discover More Card for daily purchases. It has no annual fee and you can earn up to 5% cash back (actually, you can earn up to 20% cash back with some online retailers). What you might not know is [...]
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Everbank is offering a bonus rate of 2.51 APY for the first three months on all new money market accounts. After the three-month bonus period, the APY is still an industry leading 1.77% for the first year. Everbank also offers what it calls Yield Pledge, which is its guarantee to keep the yield [...]
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Chase is now offering its business credit card customers a pretty good deal on business checking. Get $200 when you open a qualifying Chase Business Checking account, which comes with the following features:
FREE Business Checking – Pay no monthly service fees on a Chase BusinessClassicSM Checking or Chase BusinessClassicSM Checking with Interest account when [...]
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Discover Bank has recently added two products to their line-up: a no-penalty CD and a high yield savings account. Both are worth considering as they offer some of the best interest rates currently available. Here are some of the details on each.
Discover Bank No Penalty CD
Discover Bank’s 12-month no penalty CD is [...]
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First Midwest Bank has launched what it calls a rising rate CD. The certificate of deposit is for a 32-month term, and the interest rate rises automatically every 8 months. The first 8 months earns a respectable 1.75% APY, and the CD earns 4.05% APR in the final eight months. At these [...]
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Have you ever been turned down for a checking account? While denials are more common when applying for credit, you can also be declined when applying for a bank account. If you have been declined, it’s likely due to a reporting agency that many have never heard of, but who has a lot [...]
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