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Pro tip: open a high yield money market account, not a CD, rates are comporable, and your funds are fluid, and, rates will continue to rise more as the inflation damage control marches on.
Give us a source. I have ETrade and they're offering crappy rates.
The Chase is a callable CD. Can't see exact one but probably callable at 6 months. The noncallable CDs pay less but to me, that's the way to go. 5.35% noncallable available from many different banks at brokerage houses. T-bills also close to 5.3% for a year which for me is better because I live in a high tax state, but to each their own. Definitely hard to get your money out early from a brokered CD so wouldn't do it unless you know you can hold it till maturity.
Also, no automatic renewal with brokered CDs and no APY numbers. The interest rate you see is the interest you get. Most banks give you a rate that assumes you are reinvesting you interest in the CD which make the "real " rate about .1% or so less. For example, CFG 12 Month CD Online one year cd is 5.38% interest rate and 5.52% APY
If you can find a brokered CD that pays you interest monthly even better but usually you have to go out more than a year to find that.
Still a good time for interest rates compared to the last 15 years!
If you disregard the Macroeconomics, the interest rate maybe attractive but given inflation where it's at, the net effect of the rates is somewhat the same as before.
If Rate is the only criterion, I have seen a few other options offering a little over 6%.
ex: https://www.oldpoint.com/ . I personally don't have any accounts with the bank but found that while browsing and FDIC insured.
Santander is an absolute garbage bank, borderline fraudsters with your money. Personal experience
Yep. I was a former analyst there - got my first mortgage through them to take advantage of their discounted employee rates. Day of signing, they suddenly had reasons for why I didn't actually qualify for those discounted rates. So.. I got the standard market rate, I.e more than I could have gotten from a competitor.
You should be empathetic to how often people are taken in by this. Imagine a single mother, broken car, has a job, it isn't walkable, it isn't bussable. She needs a car to work, shop, take her kid to school. Many cities are structured like this.
A car dealer tells you the payments are $350mo. It's 10% of your take home but 80% of your pay in your pocket is better than losing your job. Interest rate never even comes into consideration in many of these situations. Getting to your job, feeding your kid and surviving another 6mo is all that matters.
Not everyone has the luxury of saying "24%? that's for idiots."
the bank doesn't even make a killing because the risk adjusted real return is probably 7% due to how many people default on the 24% loans.
Single mom should be buying japanese beater car not dealer...
The Chase is a callable CD. Can't see exact one but probably callable at 6 months. The noncallable CDs pay less but to me, that's the way to go. 5.35% noncallable available from many different banks at brokerage houses. T-bills also close to 5.3% for a year which for me is better because I live in a high tax state, but to each their own. Definitely hard to get your money out early from a brokered CD so wouldn't do it unless you know you can hold it till maturity.
Also, no automatic renewal with brokered CDs and no APY numbers. The interest rate you see is the interest you get. Most banks give you a rate that assumes you are reinvesting you interest in the CD which make the "real " rate about .1% or so less. For example, CFG 12 Month CD Online one year cd is 5.38% interest rate and 5.52% APY
If you can find a brokered CD that pays you interest monthly even better but usually you have to go out more than a year to find that.
Still a good time for interest rates compared to the last 15 years!
How much your brokerage charge you for buying CDs through them? May I ask which brokerage too?
If Rate is the only criterion, I have seen a few other options offering a little over 6%.
ex: https://www.oldpoint.com/ . I personally don't have any accounts with the bank but found that while browsing and FDIC insured.
That's what banks do. So buy bank stock and get in on that action instead.
Or do what the crooked rich do: buy into a bank, do bank shenanigans like make loans 2 your shell companies, default, let others end up holding the bag.
Evergreen Bank Group has a 13 month for 5.35% and can all be done online. I set one up the other day and it was painless. Only gotcha is the minimum requirement of $10k
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Also, no automatic renewal with brokered CDs and no APY numbers. The interest rate you see is the interest you get. Most banks give you a rate that assumes you are reinvesting you interest in the CD which make the "real " rate about .1% or so less. For example, CFG 12 Month CD Online one year cd is 5.38% interest rate and 5.52% APY
If you can find a brokered CD that pays you interest monthly even better but usually you have to go out more than a year to find that.
Still a good time for interest rates compared to the last 15 years!
ex: https://www.oldpoint.co
A car dealer tells you the payments are $350mo. It's 10% of your take home but 80% of your pay in your pocket is better than losing your job. Interest rate never even comes into consideration in many of these situations. Getting to your job, feeding your kid and surviving another 6mo is all that matters.
Not everyone has the luxury of saying "24%? that's for idiots."
the bank doesn't even make a killing because the risk adjusted real return is probably 7% due to how many people default on the 24% loans.
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Also, no automatic renewal with brokered CDs and no APY numbers. The interest rate you see is the interest you get. Most banks give you a rate that assumes you are reinvesting you interest in the CD which make the "real " rate about .1% or so less. For example, CFG 12 Month CD Online one year cd is 5.38% interest rate and 5.52% APY
If you can find a brokered CD that pays you interest monthly even better but usually you have to go out more than a year to find that.
Still a good time for interest rates compared to the last 15 years!
ex: https://www.oldpoint.co
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