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If you have the fortune of having a great credit score, the Chase Freedom Card offers some nice reports with no annual fee.

Bayer Heritage Federal Credit Union in Western Virginia is offering a 3.56% APY 60-month CD.

If you're one of the lucky people who have $10,000 or more to deposit in a liquid savings account, Capital One is offering a $50 bonus for opening an account plus an extra 10% quarterly bonus on all interest earned.

If you use bill pay often, Citizens Bank will pay new checking customers $40 a month for each month you make at least 5 bill pay transactions of $50 or more. The offer is good for up to 6 months, so you can get paid up to $240. Additionally, if you open a Green Checking account, you can earn even more money in bonuses.

Is the thought of paying the high closing costs on a home keeping you from making the leap into home ownership? Consider getting a mortgage through Fannie Mae.

If you have only $500 to invest for the long term, Astoria Federal Savings offers 2.65% APY for a five-year CD. Additionally, you can withdrawal your credited interest without penalty, if needed.

Just because a bank is online-only doesn't mean it offers the best APY or that its accounts are without maintenance fees, as this example from CalFirst shows.

Not all states are equal - at least when it comes to CD rates. Those are the findings from an analysis run by BestCashCow.com on its database of bank rates.

Today's IPOs of Arcos Dorados and ZipCar were wildly successful, each trading at twice their originally indicated IPO prices. We haven't seen IPOs move like this on the first day of trading since 1999. What does this indicate about the market?

A startup company in Orange County is offering to pay a few mortgage payments for many homeowners. But what's the catch?

Navy Federal Credit Union is offering a 1 year CD with a rate of 3% APY. The catch? Read on.

Are you holding on to your mortgage so you can take the interest deduction on your taxes? That may not be the best idea and it is possibly one of the things that contributed to the mortgage debacle in recent years.

One policy for reverse mortgages has caused quite a stir and resulted in a few lawsuits recently. What is the current policy and how is it going to change?

The best local 12-Month CD rates run from 1.30% to 1.80% APY. See what's available in your area.

With cash accounts staying at historically low levels and oil prices rising sharply over the last several weeks, many investors are turning towards Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) that either produce, distribute or operate pipelines for natural gas or crude oil, to generate 5% to 7% yields.