The average yield for five year CDs, as surveyed by SelectCDrates.com in the weekly survey of bank CD rates, remained stable for the week ending April 21, 2010.  The average rate for the top ten best five year CD rates available nationally held firm on the week with an average interest rate of 3.13%. 
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Two year bank certificate of deposit rates ended the week stuck in neutral based on data from the most recent bank CD rate survey performed by SelectCDrates.com.  For the week ending April 23, 2010 the average rate for the top ten best two year CD rates available nationally closed at 2.03%, unchanged from the prior [...]

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One year certificate of deposit rates available nationally were down for the week ending April 23, 2010 based on the most recent survey of bank CD rates performed by Selectcdrates.com.  The average rate on the top ten best one year bank CDs fell by three basis points or 3/100 of a percent on the week.  [...]

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The average rate on six month bank CDs was unchanged for the week ending April 23, 2010 based on the SelectCDrates.com most recent survey of bank rates.  This week, the average six month CD yield from the top ten best six month bank CDs available nationally held firm at 1.24%.
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Bank certificate of deposit rates showed little movement across most maturities for the week ending April 23, 2010.   The changes that took place were along the one year term bank CDs with the six month, two year and five year terms remaining unchanged.  The limited rate change that did take place was in the wrong [...]

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The FDIC was visiting Illinois on Friday and by the end of the day closed the doors on six Illinois based banks.  The banks placed into receivership with the FDIC included New Century Bank based in Chicago, Citizens Bank & Trust Company of Chicago, Broadway Bank  based in Chicago, Lincoln Park Savings Bank in Chicago, [...]

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Ally Bank continues to offer very attractive bank CD interest rates as well as competitive rates for its other products, including savings account, money market account and checking accounts.
Ally Bank CD rates were down, on average, very modestly for the week ending April 23, 2010.  The changes for this week’s Ally Bank CDs included a [...]

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The average rate for the top bank savings accounts held their ground this week based the survey of national bank rates performed by SelectCDrates.com.  The average savings account rate for the top ten best savings account rates remained at 1.40%, unchanged from the prior week.
While the average rate was unchanged for the week, the highest [...]

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Long term certificate of deposit yields continued to erode for the week ending April 16, 2010 based on the most recent survey of bank CD rates performed by SelectCDrates.com.  The average yield for the top ten best five year CDs available nationally fell by three basis points or 3/100 of a percent on the week.  The average [...]

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The best two year CD rates available nationally held their ground this week, with change in the average interest rate based on the survey of the top bank rates performed by SelectCDrates.com.  The average yield for the top ten best two year bank CDs remained undisturbed for the week at 2.03%. 
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