Topic: Greg Mcbride
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mark Sass and his wife Jan decided to refinance the mortgage on their Cincinnati, Ohio, home on Friday, just days before the Federal Reserve pledged to keep rates near historic lows through the first half of 2013."I knew ...
If you're like many investors, chances are you have a few too many dollars parked in your brokerage account. Still, the assets parked in sweep accounts could add up to $600 billion, according to Peter Crane, president of Crane Data LLC, which ...
Fading of inflation keeps rates low and makes it cheaper to buy a car or refinance a mortgageIt's a good time to buy a car, refinance a mortgage, hit the road or shop for clothes.Invest in a saving account? Forget it.Consumer inflation ...
If you're like many investors, chances are you have a few too many dollars parked in your brokerage account. Still, the assets parked in sweep accounts could add up to $600 billion, according to Peter Crane, president of Crane Data LLC, which ...
Congress and federal regulators may be clamping down on overdraft fees, but consumers may be seeing what some critics say is an even sneakier type of charge increasingly showing up on bank statements: Unlike overdraft fees, these account maintenance fees can affect ...
At a time when consumers can barely squeeze out a 2% yield on their savings, offers to earn 5% or 6% -- on a checking account, no less - may sound downright sketchy.. These so-called "rewards" accounts were once offered by a ...
Interest rates are low, and they're likely to remain low for " If you already have such a ladder in place, there's no need to worry about today's low rates, says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst with Bankrate. Plus, a CD ladder ...
Free checking is going the way of the free lunch.. "Banks, just like airlines and local governments, need to fill the revenue gap," says Greg McBride, the senior analyst for Bankrate. Last year, Chase (JPM:37.70,0.00,0.00%) renamed its Chase Free Checking program Chase ...
"The days of Americans living on borrowed money to support a lifestyle have come to an end," says Greg McBride, a senior financial analyst at Bankrate. McBride expects the personal savings rate to plateau at 5% through the end of this year, ...
Last year was actually pretty good for Frank Porcelli. In just a few months Porcelli earned about 8 percent on the $40,000 in his Roth IRA and his brokerage account. With campaigns like "Total Merrill" and "Citi Never Sleeps," big firms like ...
