Yields on bank money market rates showed little life amid another week of lower bank rates.  Bank money market rates ended the week right where they began.  Money market rates were virtually the only bank rate category to get through the week unscathed.  The average for the best bank money market rates ended the week at 1.89%, unchanged from the previous week.  The highest bank money market rate was also unchanged at 2.00%.

Two banks this week continue to offer a 2.00% money market rates, AmTrust Direct and Corus Bank.  iGOBanking offers a money market account rate nine basis points lower at 1.91%.  Two more banks follow, Flagstar Bank and Nationwide Bank, promote money market accounts with interest rates at 1.90%.  The remaining five banks on the top ten bank money market account rate table have interest rates ranging from 1.87% at Zions Bank to 1.76% at Giant Bank.  

Money market rates may not be leaping off the page with attention grabbing high interest rates but the good news for consumers was that bank money market rates were unchanged.  This is especially noteworthy as most bank rates have fallen measurably over the past several weeks.  With a well defined trend of lower rates developing and other investment markets turning skittish, don’t expect that modestly good news about money market rates to last.   It would be prudent to anticipate that these short term bank rates will fall further in the weeks ahead.

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