Comments on: CDs – Certificates of Deposit

By: 8 Unusual Things to Hold in Your IRA | Good Financial Cents

8 Unusual Things to Hold in Your IRA | Good Financial Cents — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:14:28 +0000

[...] people think of an IRA or what you can hold in an IRA, they think of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, CDs, maybe even money markets. What a lot of people don’t know is that there are other things [...]

By: ABC

ABC — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:07:51 +0000

BCR – great point about the automatic renewal. It may be convenient but it might not be a good deal.

By: Bank CD Rates

Bank CD Rates — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:51:05 +0000

I would watch out for those auto-roll features. Most banks count on them in order to roll your CD at much lower rates. Especially banks that had been offering high short-term teaser CD rates.

There is a good chance that the $250K FDIC limit will be made permanent, but don’t count on it until it has been done.

IRA CDs are insured up to $250K and have been since April ‘06