More Americans stashing cash in home safes
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Have Americans lost trust in banks? More folks are keeping valuables at home, whether in room-size vaults or under-bed safes.
Articles in 'Interest Rates' Category
Personal Finance Daily: Mortgage rates hit new lows
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Good news or bad news? Depends, perhaps, on what you do with it. Freddie Mac’s weekly survey of mortgage interest rates today reveals the rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage has hit a new low: 3.84% for the week ending May 3, down from 3.88% last week and 4.71% a year ago. [...]
Banks slash retailers’ debit card fees
from CNN Money Personal Finance
With every swipe of a customer’s debit card, small businesses and other retailers must pay transaction fees to the card issuer.
Personal Finance Daily: Fraud detection technology cuts risks
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Jennifer Openshaw writes in her column today about how the technology of fraud detection, particularly for bank and credit-card customers, is helping to prevent or stop these kinds of thefts, sometimes even before you know your wallet is missing.
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Debt Free, Finally!!!!!
from Dave Ramsey News
It feels so good to finally say, “I’m Debt Free”!!!!
Like many young people, I graduated from college with an advanced degree and several thousands of dollars in debt. I thought that you had to survive on student loans, credit cards, and car payments. After all, that’s how I grew up. [...]
Best banking deals: Earn more cash
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Interest rates are lousy, and you can boost your yield only so much. But these savings and credit strategies will pay off.
John is Single and Sans Student Loans
from Dave Ramsey News
John is debt-free! He paid off $97,000 in five years, and $40,000 of that was in the last year.
30-year mortgage rate dips to 3.88%
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Mortgage rates remained near record lows in the week ending April 26, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average declining to 3.88% from 3.90% in the prior week, Freddie Mac said Thursday in its weekly report. The rate was 4.78% a year earlier. To obtain the latest rate, payment of [...]
Mortgages: Rates on 30-year mortgage fall to 3.88%
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Rates on fixed-rate mortgages average just above record lows this week, according to Freddie Mac’s survey of conforming rates on home loans.
The poor stay poor
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Most of those in the poorest income quintile spent all or nearly all of the period between 1996 and 2006 stuck in place, according to a new report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.