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The following is a list of top online banks that offers high yield savings account, high interest savings account, or high yield money market account. All of these accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000. Your principal is protected and you’re guarantee a positive nominal return on investment. For March 2010, the average interest rate [...]

I was checking out Discover Bank Online Savings which is currently paying 2.0% APY — highest interest rate in my bank rates table. I noticed that Discover Bank also has a Money Market option, which currently pays 1.55% APY. I’ve never paid attention to the difference, but this time I got curious — what’s the [...]

If you keep a lot of money in your checking account, moving your money to a high interest checking account may be a good move. Below is a list of nationally available highest yields checking accounts. All of these accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000. Your principal is protected and you’re guarantee a positive [...]

You may know that your credit report and credit score are important, but do you know why? And do you know how to improve them? Instead of giving you another boring list, here are 10 quick quiz questions to test your credit quotient. Write your answers down on a piece of paper and check them [...]

Kiplinger recently listed their favorite credit cards, from the lowest interest rate credit card to those that give you various types of rewards toward your mortgage, college savings, investment, and trip.

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Here are their top 7 credit cards:

Bank of America Upromise World MasterCard – Deposits a 1% rebate in your Upromise account. [...]

I received an email from Zecco over the weekend stating that they are changing their free online stock trading policy effective March 1, 2009. In case you don’t know who Zecco is, it’s an online discount broker that’s famous for offering its customers cheap online stock trading (at $4.50 per trade), and free trades if [...]

I have a secret desire to be a professional financial planner one day (well, now it’s not so secret anymore). Of course, this would take me in a completely direction from my current career. Because of this desire, I jumped at the chance to interview Ciaran McKeever of Chance Favors who is a Certified Financial [...]