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...“Broadly speaking, we’re seeing the highest returns for savings and accounts in 15 years,” said Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com....
...Bankrate, the US personal finance website, is to be bought by Red Ventures in a $1.4bn deal....
...Banks are in an “arms race” to boost rates, said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com, which surveys thousands of banks and credit unions across America....
...In 1998, 68 per cent of ATMs imposed penalty fees on non-customers, according to Bankrate’s survey. By 2014 the figure was 100 per cent....
...Bankrate was founded as a print publisher in 1976 and launched its best-known property, bankrate.com, in 1996....
...Only two banks in the US offer more than that on savings accounts, according to Bankrate.com. The equivalent rates at Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo are 0.01 per cent a year....
...The benchmark 30 year mortgage rate tracked by Bankrate.com has risen from 3.36 per cent to 4.17 per cent over the same timeframe....
...Rates are still very low, given the record low Bankrate 0.25%. Nonetheless, there are more challenger banks coming into the market and competing for customers' deposits, so competition will be high....
...Savers in New York with $1,000 will get 0.03 per cent in interest from Bank of America and 0.01 per cent from Chase and Citibank, according to Bankrate.com....
...Bankrate expects to make revenues of $530m and $150m in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation this year....
...They have a more cautious approach to credit — almost two-thirds of adults under the age of 30 do not have a credit card, according to Bankrate.com — but the impediments to buying are more practical than...
...It dipped another toe into the retail world last month when it agreed to buy Honest Dollar Inc., a startup offering retirement services to the self-employed....
...“I don’t know any banks that are loving lower for longer, but it’s different degrees of pain,” says Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at the comparison site Bankrate.com....
...On bankrate.com, a portal for comparing products, Synchrony Bank is currently advertising a snowman-themed savings account at 1.05 per cent a year on all balances — 10 times the national average — urging...
...The average interest rates on a standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage have increased to 4.3 per cent, according to Bankrate.com....
...“The Fed is maintaining the status quo, noting some improvement in the jobs market, but the big risk remains Europe,” said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com....
...Benchmark mortgage rates have fallen, although not as far, with a 30-year mortgage costing 3.7 per cent, according to Bankrate....
...But, ultimately, it is investors who will determine the future of the P2P market, says Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com....
...On Wednesday, however, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the US had a rate of 4.18 per cent, according to Bankrate.com – nearly 200bp higher than the 10-year Treasury yield....
...headlines recently, they are not the primary concern for analysts such as [Chandrajit] Bhattacharya [head of non-agency RMBS and ABS strategy at Credit Suisse] and Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com...
...The drop in financing has pushed jumbo mortgage rates as much as 2 per cent higher than rates for mortgages that conform to Fannie and Freddie’s limits, according to Bankrate.com....
...Interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, as measured by Bankrate.com, rose to 6.38 per cent on Thursday from 5.87 per cent last week - before the Treasury said on Tuesday that it would take equity...
...(The nationwide average is 3.7 percent, according to bankrate.com.) Any signs that savers were becoming skittish could cause regulators to step in....
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