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US Treasury Series I Savings Bonds Inflation Rate Earnings (November '22 - April '23) - 6.89% Annualized for 6 months

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U.S. Government Treasury is offering 6.89% Interest Rate (Annualized for 6 Months) in combined Fixed + Inflation Rate Earnings valid on newly issued Series I Savings Bonds purchased from November 2022 through April 2023. Limit of $10,000/year per person (with caveats, see prior thread for details in the discussion).

In layman's terms: These are U.S. treasury securities which adjust their interest rate every 6 months based on the current inflation rate. The calculation is more complex than that but using the CPI-U (Core CPI) from October of 6.6% YoY, an inflation interest rate of 6.47% can be derived based on the previous 6 months of inflation data, and when combined with a fixed interest rate component over which the Fed has discretion and was announced November 1, we now have the finalized rate of 6.89%.

For further details on how I-bonds work, see the previous Front Page deal when the 9.62% rate was announced. There is plenty of discussion and information there on how I-bonds work.

About this offer:

What is a Series I bond? (source)
  • "A savings bond that earns interest based on combining a fixed rate and an inflation rate."
  • You may use Series I bonds to:
  • Click here for more information about Series I Bonds
What interest does a Series I bond earn? (source)
  • A combination of a fixed rate that stays the same for the life of the bond and an inflation rate that is set twice a year.
  • An I bond earns interest monthly from the first day of the month in the issue date. The interest accrues (is added to the bond) until the bond reaches 30 years or you cash the bond, whichever comes first.
  • The interest is compounded semiannually. Every six months from the bond's issue date, interest the bond earned in the six previous months is added to the bond's principal value, creating a new principal value. Interest is then earned on the new principal.
  • The composite rate for I bonds issued from May 2022 through October 2022 is 9.62 percent. This rate applies for the first six months you own the bond.
​When can I cash my I bonds?
  • After they are 12 months old.
  • If you cash an I bond before it is five years old, you will lose the last three months of interest.
  • I bonds earn interest for 30 years if you don't cash the bonds before they mature.
  • If you've been affected by a disaster, special provisions may apply.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/in...s_ibuy.htm
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Current rate is 4.30% May 1, 2023 to October 31, 2023.

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10-13-2022 at 05:49 AM.
10-13-2022 at 05:49 AM.
Quote from MadPup :
Why are you starting a new thread?

https://slickdeals.net/f/15758386
Because it's a new rate and new period. What? There have been new threads started every 6 months...
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10-13-2022 at 06:00 AM.
10-13-2022 at 06:00 AM.
Roughly 8% return on your money after 15 months if you buy within the next two weeks and plan on cashing out. Biggest issue for some (if gifting with spouse and intent on shorter hold time), the expected best cash out time on this rate (assuming the rate drops in the future), pushes it into 2024. Only being able to cash out $10k/year, this may be problematic, depending on the number of gifts you purchased.
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10-13-2022 at 06:14 AM.
10-13-2022 at 06:14 AM.
For those who need to invest more than 10k but want the same risk appetite:
1 year government T bill @ 4.4% federal tax only. No limit and can buy from schwab, fidelity
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10-13-2022 at 06:30 AM.
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Quote from bugelrex :
For those who need to invest more than 10k but want the same risk appetite:
1 year government T bill @ 4.4% federal tax only. No limit and can buy from schwab, fidelity

Great tip. Shorter duration rates also available from 3-4% via various brokers and TreasuryDirect.
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Much better than buying stocks lol. Park the cash here and wait till the Fed stops raising rates.
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Mods, please merge this thread with this

By that argument you should merge the thread you linked with the thread from the 6 months prior to that. A new rate and period, especially straddling the yearly contribution limits, deserves its own thread.
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Much better than buying stocks lol. Park the cash here and wait till the Fed stops raising rates.
Timing the market is a losing proposition.
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Timing the market is a losing proposition.

Yeah good luck fighting the Fed.
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10-13-2022 at 06:51 AM.

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10-13-2022 at 06:51 AM.
Why only 6.47% if the new inflation report was an annual 8.3%? Inflation hasn't dropped 3%+ since the last reset of these rates. 9.6%
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10-13-2022 at 06:55 AM.
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Quote from bugelrex :
For those who need to invest more than 10k but want the same risk appetite:
1 year government T bill @ 4.4% federal tax only. No limit and can buy from schwab, fidelity
Wouldn't there be zero risk on T bills if you hold them to maturity? I realize that the bond value can go down on the secondary market if the Fed raises rates again, but if you intend to hold on it you are not going to 'lose' money. I guess you can argue that you lose opportunity to make more money if your capital is tied up in these bonds.
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