2.78% APY 4-Year CD vs. 2.78% APY 5-Year CD?

2.78% APY 4-Year CD vs. 2.78% APY 5-Year CD?

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2.78% APY is an excellent rate on a 4-year CD. It is also an excellent rate on a 5-year CD. The 2.78% number is actually much higher than we have seen on a CD of that length in years, and higher than any nationally offered rate.

Community Trust Bank is offering the 2.78% APY rate on both the 4-year and the 5-year product at 6 of its branches in the Lexington, KY market. If you are lucky enough to live in that market, you have the opportunity to get into a rate that still is very hard to get in much of the rest of the country.

In fact, the rate is so much higher than those offered nationally, if I lived there I might just choose to opt for the 5-year product over the 4-year one, and be assured of locking into an extra year of interest at the 2.78% rate.

Community Trust is offering these products only at its 6 branches in Lexington, Kentucky - its Beaumont branch, its Hamburg branch, its Leestown branch, its Pasadena branch, its Richmond branch and its Vine Street branch. The rate requires a $1,000 minimum deposit and proof of residency in Fayette County.

You may be able to get a 4-year CD rate or a 5-year CD rate like this at a bank where you live! Check the best local 4-year CDs here. Check the best local 5-year CDs here.

Also see the best online 4-year CD rates here and the best 5-year CD rates here.

Ari Socolow
Ari Socolow: Ari Socolow is the Chief Economist and Editor-in-Chief at BestCashCow. He is particularly interested in issues relating to bank transparency and the climate crisis. Since co-founding BestCashCow in 2005, Ari has been frequently cited in the media as an expert on local and national savings accounts, CD products, mortgage and loan products and credit card rewards products.

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