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Current CD rates for January 2025

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Check out the latest CD rates from Bankrate’s weekly survey of banks and thrifts.
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Savings and money market account rates forecast for 2025: Yields will dip but remain higher than inflation

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Expect savings and money market account yields to slide lower, but they still should outpace inflation
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“The sooner you lock in [with a CD rate], the better, because yields have peaked, but inflation is going to continue to decline throughout 2024.”

– Greg McBride, CFA

CD rates forecast for 2024: Expect banner year for savers with strong yields, lower inflation rate

The year 2023 came to a close with yields that had peaked on certificates of deposit (CDs) and other deposit accounts. Although Federal Reserve rate cuts are possible in 2024, it should remain a strong year for savers as annual percentage yields (APYs) stay high overall and inflation hopefully cools further.
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Savings and money market account rates forecast for 2025: Yields will dip but remain higher than inflation

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IRS sending $1,400 stimulus checks to 1 million Americans — here’s how everyone else can save the same amount

The Internal Revenue Service is automatically sending $1,400 stimulus payments to about one million Americans who never claimed their COVID-19 relief checks from 2021, according to a recent announcement. [...]
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Capital One sued by CFPB over its high-yield savings accounts

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18 ways to save money on a tight budget

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National average money market account rates for January 2025

Get the latest rates on top-yielding money market accounts.
Jan 09, 2025
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Current CD rates for January 2025

Check out the latest CD rates from Bankrate’s weekly survey of banks and thrifts.
Jan 09, 2025
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Survey: Recession odds diminishing for U.S. economy, but watch for a slowdown

The U.S. economy is going to be walking a fine line over the next year.
Dec 04, 2019
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Fed cuts interest rates for third straight time, but signals it may now be on hold

Will it be enough to keep the economic expansion going?
Oct 30, 2019
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6 big questions to focus on ahead of the Fed’s October meeting

A rate cut seems like a given, but what’s next? 
Oct 25, 2019
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Fed cuts rates by quarter point, split on further reductions

Here’s what the U.S. central bank decided to do with interest rates.
Sep 18, 2019
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Sep 16, 2019
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Survey: Expect the Fed to cut rates at least two more times over the next year

The July rate cut is likely just the beginning, Bankrate’s latest economists’ poll finds.
Sep 04, 2019
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Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter point for the first time in a decade

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