A certificate of deposit (CD) can be a great way to keep your savings safe while also earning interest. CDs tend to offer higher interest rates than even high-yield savings accounts, allowing you to ...

Liliana Hall was a writer for CNET Money covering banking, credit cards and mortgages. Previously, she wrote about personal credit for Bankrate and CreditCards.com. David McMillin writes about credit ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates at its October meeting, but great CD rates haven't vanished overnight. Banks don't adjust their rates the moment the Fed acts. It takes days or even weeks for ...

Solid CD rates allow retirees to secure a reliable income with a CD ladder strategy. Retirees need to balance lower-returning CDs with stocks and other investments. Building a CD ladder involves using ...

Social Security payments reliably safeguard against inflation. Critics sometimes dispute the details of the administration’s cost-of-living adjustments—although, one suspects, few recipients will ...

Not long ago, investors had to pay the U.S. government for the privilege of owning Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. The real yields, that is the yields after factoring in inflation, were ...