Best CD rate for High yield CD
Published 1/7/09 (Modified 6/9/15)By MoneyBlueBook
Updated List Of the Top Certificate Of Deposit Deals and Offers
If you're searching for a definitive and regularly updated list of the best CD rates currently available in the market, you've come to the right place. In the CD rate table below, I've compiled a list of the top nationally available certificate of deposit bank offers featuring the highest annual percentage yields (APY). While CD rates and certificate of deposit offers rise and fall with market interest changes, they tend to promote much higher interest rates of return than other forms of bank or credit union deposits, such as high yield savings or money market accounts. The trade off in order to enjoy the higher interest rates that CDs afford, is a certain degree of liquidity and access to your money. When you put your savings in a CD account, the money is momentarily locked up for the duration of an agreed upon fixed CD term period. In exchange, banks are willing to pay you a much higher interest rate for your savings than they'd otherwise compensate you for a regular savings account. Typically for certificate of deposits, the longer the CD term you are willing to lock yourself into, the higher the CD interest rate you will receive in return.
For the sake of brevity, I have chosen to only list the best CD rates for 12 month certificate of deposits. Along with the top CD rates, I have also provided comparative rate offers from popular brick and mortar retail banks as well.
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