It's the price of not doing business with a particular institution. Just as non-account holders bear the costs associated with an ATM network, banks are now assessing non-account holders for in-branch check cashing.
The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look at all aspects of your finances. Part of that is getting better organized for 2006.
There's a game of one-upmanship in terms of who's offering the best yields. Every household needs a liquid savings account in a place where you can keep up with inflation and the Internet is certainly a powerful platform to market to customers in a cost-effective way.
There's a game of one-upmanship in terms of who's offering the best yields, ... Every household needs a liquid savings account in a place where you can keep up with inflation and the Internet is certainly a powerful platform to market to customers in a cost-effective way.
For the rest of the card-carrying public, they can expect another quarter-point increase to follow this.
The average homebuyer moves every seven to 10 years.
Eighty-six percent of institutions will charge you for using a different bank's ATM.
That's quite the opposite of what it was six or 12 months ago when we were in a rising interest rate environment, ... At that time everyone was going with the shorter term so they could reinvest at a higher yield going forward.
It's really a wise strategy to do that -- to throw whatever you can at the balance.
It's ratcheting up a quarter point -- every time the Fed raises rates.
