A certificate of deposit (CD) account was one of the safer and smarter ways to grow your money in recent years. While inflation surged and interest rates caused the cost of borrowing to rise ...

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For example, you can have a continuously maturing CD every year by establishing a ladder like this: Open 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year CDs simultaneously with equal amounts of money in each.

Your CD almost certainly comes with a grace period of seven to 10 days after it matures. This grace period gives you a chance to decide what to do with your money. This can be easy to miss or forget.

If you need to access the money before it fully matures, you’ll often pay an early withdrawal penalty that can reduce your interest earnings. Most CD options require a single deposit and don’t ...

The amount of money you should keep in a CD depends on your financial situation and goals, and there’s no perfect number you should aim for. Instead, look at CDs as one piece of your overall ...

If you have high-interest debt, then investing in CDs is a waste of money. Right now, the best CD rates you can get are in the neighborhood of 4.50%. That's a pretty high return for an investment ...